A central part of Six Senses Ninh Van Bay and the Six Senses philosophy is to give something back to the local community in which we operate. For this purpose, we set aside funds for social and environmental purposes. Some of our activities can find below:
Water Well Project for Bong La Village by
Six Senses Ninh Van Bay
Mr. Wayne Lunt, the General Manager of the Six Senses Ninh Van Bay and Management Team visited “Bong La”
Village near “Thien An” Boarding house in Pleiku, Vietnam on the 11th April, 2011. The boarding school has over
100 children of which 24 are orphans and 5 severely handicapped children, all are being provided with a home and
education. The initiators for the construction and funding of the Boarding house in Pleiku are Ms. Oanh Le Tinh
and Mr. Jan Peters who started the foundation ‘Live and Give’ in Belgium to help disadvantaged children of
Vietnam.
Bong La is a small village located 10 kilometers from the Thien An boarding school. Bong La has one spring that
over 500 people use for drinking water, washing and bathing, this stream is now quite contaminated and the
children have been suffering from scabies. The water is not being boiled before drinking and for some it is a few
kilometers to walk from home to the stream.
Six Senses Ninh Van Bay has donated approximately USD 4,000 for installing the water well, water filter and
bathing facilities. Six Senses uses the revenues from the sales of their ‘wellness water’ to guests at the resort to help
finance this project. Six Senses wellness water is an initiative to mitigate carbon emissions by making healthy water
on site at the resort reducing the need to import water from thousands of miles away. Whilst also using the revenue
from the sales of the wellness water for water projects around the world.
As planned, the water well will be in use by the end of June, 2011. The success of this project will be beneficial to
the whole village by providing clean safe water for use for many of the villagers while also reducing the high usage
of the spring water for other villagers.
