Welcome to the RTN Children’s Foundation
The Rosa Thay Nguyen (RTN) Foundation provides comprehensive healthcare services to underserved children and families worldwide, delivering essential medical care, nutrition support, education, and surgical interventions while building sustainable healthcare capacity within local communities.
COMPASSION
We approach every child and family with empathy, understanding, and respect for their dignity and cultural background.
SUSTAINABILITY
We empower communities to create lasting healthcare solutions that continue long after our direct involvement.
TRANSPARENCY
We maintain open communication with communities, donors, and partners about our work, impact, and use of resources.
OUR PURPOSE AND COMMITMENT
We exist to ensure that every child around the world, regardless of economic circumstance, nationality, or geographic location, has access to quality healthcare and the opportunity to thrive. Our mission is to bridge the gap between medical need and medical care for underserved children facing serious illness across developing nations and underserved communities worldwide.
We are dedicated to providing comprehensive support that addresses not only immediate medical needs but also the broader challenges that illness brings to vulnerable families worldwide. Through direct medical assistance, healthcare infrastructure development, family support services, and international partnerships, we work to remove barriers that prevent children from receiving life-saving and life-improving care across continents.
OUR CAUSES
Together, we turn compassion into action
HEALTH & NUTRITION
Malnutrition and poor health trap children in a devastating cycle where weak bodies can’t fight disease, and illness further depletes nutrition, stunting growth and development. By providing both medical care and nutrition support, we break this cycle and give children the foundation they need to thrive and reach their full potential.
MEDICAL INTERVENTION
Medical intervention for underserved children often means the difference between life and death, as treatable conditions become devastating when basic healthcare remains inaccessible due to poverty and lack of infrastructure. Through targeted medical care, we hope to transform lives and building local capacity to serve these communities long-term.
SURGICAL CARE
Our surgical care program provides life-saving operations to children in underserved communities through volunteer teams and partner hospitals, performing essential procedures that would otherwise be unavailable while training local healthcare providers to build sustainable surgical capacity for the future.
PREVENTATIVE CARE
Providing preventive care for underserved children, using simple measures like vaccinations, nutrition support, and health screenings to stop diseases before they become life-threatening emergencies. By investing in prevention, we save lives while reducing strain on healthcare systems, creating healthier communities where children can thrive.
EDUCATION
Understanding that education and health are inseparable in breaking cycles of poverty, we ensure that health challenges don’t become barriers to learning while promoting health literacy that benefits entire communities. We offer mentorship opportunities and hope to empower local individuals to become healthcare providers to build community wellness.
MEDICAL RESEARCH
Researching children’s diseases drives breakthroughs that transform devastating diagnoses into treatable conditions. Every dollar invested in children’s medical research has the potential to save thousands of future lives, as discoveries made today become the standard treatments that give tomorrow’s children hope for full, healthy lives.
OUR IMPACT
Through our work, we measure success not just in medical outcomes, but in restored hope, strengthened families, and communities empowered to care for their most vulnerable members. We believe that by investing in the health of underserved children today, we are building healthier, more equitable communities for tomorrow.
