#28 Kelly Vo 🇻🇳 - Creating opportunities and unleashing potential with LIN Center and Dear Our Community

<p>🇻🇳 Kelly (Tuyen) Vo is a connector, community builder and podcaster proudly born in Saigon, Vietnam, who’s passionate about bringing opportunities and resources to those who need it the most. If you’ve been following Life Line, she is the perfect example of a social gardener!</p><br><p>👏 Kelly is currently the Head of the Philanthropy Services Department at the LIN Center for Community Development, a non-profit on a mission to increase citizen participation and enhance the broader non-profit ecosystem in Vietnam. She also launched her podcast, Dear Our Community, where she invites doers in the community to inspire her audience about life purpose, happiness and social impact.</p><br><p>💪 We discuss about her difficult childhood, how she was the first one to go to college in her family, how one mentor changed her outlook in life, and how she progressively connected the dots, one experience at a time, to understand her life purpose and become to the go-to person in the social impact ecosystem in Vietnam.&nbsp;</p><br><p>❤️ <strong>TIMELINE</strong>:</p><p>7’ - Growing up without role models…</p><p>17’- … but by being the best at school</p><p>26’ - Find someone you can call a mentor</p><p>36’ - Discovering a new world through volunteering</p><p>41’ - Life is a succession of trials and errors until you connect the dots</p><p>48’ - Joining the LIN Center, a non-profit that supports non-profits</p><p>60’ - Start with why</p><p>67’ - Being curious about people and showcasing their stories through podcasting</p><br><p>🗒️<strong> REFERENCES</strong>:</p><p>Connect with Kelly on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-vo02/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>.</p><p>Check Dear Our Community Podcast (in Vietnamese) <a href="http://dearourcommunity.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>Check the LIN Center <a href="http://linvn.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>To read about Kelly, check this amazing written <a href="https://vietcetera.com/en/a-