Former US President Jimmy Carter, his wife and American singers arrived in Vietnam on November 18 to build houses for the poor in Hai Duong province.

Van Duong Thanh and the painting for auction.

The two singers, Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, will participate in the construction and perform in a charity show on November 19 to raise fund for the poor. At this show, a painting by famous overseas Vietnamese painter Van Duong Thanh will be auctioned.

Annually the former US President spends a week building houses in a charity project named “Houses and Hope”, sponsored by the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter charity organization. The yearly fund raised through this organization is over $100 million.

This year, the former US President, his wife and nearly 3,000 volunteers will build and repair 166 houses in Thailand, China, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

Carter received a Peace Nobel Prize in 2002.

Painter Van Duong Thanh was invited to join the construction in Dong Xa villa. She said the painting for charity auction will be a landscape painting of this village.

VietNamNet/Tuoi Tre