Yasmeen Thanh was born in a small Cham village in Vietnam. She is part of the minority ethnic groups of Vietnam and indigenous as well. Yasmeen is trilingual in Cham, Vietnamese, and English. She came to America in 1993 and is a graduate from San Jose State University with Fine Arts and a minor in Business Management, and Teaching. She has worked as an educator and in the tech field in Silicon Valley.
She started working on projects in her village (Phuoc Nhon-Vietnam and Cambodia) that promote clean water and primary education. The need for basic education and clean water is an everyday challenge for many people in these areas, especially the minority and underprivileged people. After working with the team in Cambodia and Vietnam for almost 10 years, she is ready to help more countries such as the Rohingya.
Not only does she want to help the minority and forgotten indigenous, she also wants to help the orphans and needy children around the world that suffer from war and extreme poverty.
She would like to make a noticeable impact on children’s lives as she believes that the real success is not about the great amount of money people have; it is about having less, but they can still assist making great impact on the life of children and the world.
Yasmeen is observing the clean water well that was dug at the high mountain area in Vietnam. This water well is built to last for a lifetime.
She wants to be the voice for the voiceless and the helping hands for the helpless.
In 2010 Moonlight was able to to help more than 90 children to get their school supplies. In 2018 they have supported approximately 700 children, in 2019 they will be supporting more than 1000 children, and in 2025 their goal is to support more than 15,000 disadvantaged children and orphans in the world.
Yasmeen is observing the clean water well that was dug from the high mountain area in Vietnam. This water well is built to last for a lifetime.
She wants to be the voice for the voiceless and the helping hands for the helpless.