Một công dân Mỹ gốc Việt làm công tác xă hội và từ thiện ở Mỹ được Tổng thống Mỹ vinh danh.

Thạch "Tak" Nguyễn, vừa tốt nghiệp đại học thành phố Los Angeles bang California (UCLA) và là sáng lập viên tổ chức bất vụ lợi "Swipes for the Homeless," một trong năm cá nhân xuất sắc trong chương tŕnh "Champions of Changes" được Tổng Thống Barack Obama vinh danh tại Ṭa Bạch Ốc hôm Thứ Năm.

Phát biểu trong lễ vinh danh, ông Obama nói: "Các bạn trẻ luôn là những người tiên phong của phong trào thay đổi. Tôi rất tự hào về những sinh viên này và trường đại học mà ở đó, họ đă có những công việc thiết thực phục vụ cộng đồng và giúp cộng đồng người Mỹ trở nên tốt đẹp hơn. Tôi hy vọng những tấm gương sáng này sẽ truyền cảm hứng cho mọi người công dân Mỹ cùng nhau đóng góp, xây dựng một nước Mỹ bền vững”.

UCLA alumnus Thach “Tak” Nguyen sat grinning from ear to ear as President Barack Obama spoke on his left, standing at a podium in front of a crowd inside the White House Thursday afternoon.

Nguyen, co-founder and chief financial officer of Swipes for the Homeless at UCLA, traveled to Washington with other members of the student organization to be honored at the White House as one of the winners of a competition called “Campus Champions of Change Challenge.”...

President Obama addressed the winners and audience of about 50-60 people at the event, offering his praise.

“Good government policy will only go so far,” Obama said. “What really makes a difference is the entrepreneurship, the day to day action, the social networks; it all comes down to people like you who have the courage to and are willing to do these things.”

In addition to being honored at the White House event, Swipes for the Homeless will be featured by mtvU and MTV Act, and will host mtvU’s program “The Dean’s List.”

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President Barack Obama addresses the Campus Champions of Change Challenge winners. (White House)

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From Little Saigon, Surf City to the White House

Thach “Tak” Nguyen, who grew up in Westminster and Huntington Beach after immigrating from Vietnam as a child, has been picked as one of President Barack Obama‘s five Campus Champions of Change. Nguyen will be among winners honored at the White House Thursday....

Obama launched the program to rewarding outstanding leadership on college campuses and recognizing those who would help lead the country into the future.

“Young people have always been at the forefront of movements of change,” Obama said in a press release announcing the winners. “I am so proud of these students and their campuses for their innovative work to improve communities all across America. I hope their brilliant example will inspire Americans of all ages to come together to support an America that’s built to last.”


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