Back in Sai Gon ...

24th September 2014

At CBA Sai Gon ... with previous manager Phuong from Sydney

Finally we had internet again, and were also able to send and receive e-mails.

Boom - an e-mail from the Commonwealth bank, Sai Gon was among several others. The news was not good. As of the 15th of September the government wants to have supportive documents for every transaction / online payment, i.e. like rental agreement.

Bingo ... we do not have any agreements but ... we have to transfer funds. What now brown cow ??? Another taxi ride to the CBA Sai Gon. Lucky Miss Tram, the branch manager was not too busy so we were able to see her and discuss our situation.
Fact is, that we need agreements for any future transactions. Tram discussed a framework with us. Ok, we have to work it all out and obey the banking regulations.
Back to hotel. How do we go about it. We made some phone calls and then we sat down and set up agreements between our major partners like the Hope School. Before we sent it to the Hope School we wanted to make sure all is above board so we sent a copy to Miss Tram. Once we got her ok we were then able to send it to the Hope school first. We also set up a document to explain what CVSG is doing in Viet Nam.
We received the signed documents from the Hope school including a name list of supported students. Went to the bank on Thursday and signed the paperwork.

All good ... now we can transfer to Hope School, prepare the rest is a simular fashion and we are laughing.

Guess what, it's all done, all good but it took a lot of time !!!