The Vietnam Vascular Anomalies Center (VAC) in Saigon, Vietnam provides free medical care to underserved children suffering from severe disfiguring vascular birth defects. For many of these children, such highly visual conditions are considerable social and psychological stigmas that severely limit their ability to interact with society. Set up by a group of Boston-based physicians with their Vietnamese counterparts, the VAC cures these children and gives them a chance at a normal, stigma-free life.
The Rehma Fund has supported summer fellowships in pediatric dermatology for visiting Vietnamese physicians as well as funded the purchase and maintenance of essential medical equipment.