Pharmacy student lends hand to Vietnamese orphans

It was a life changing experience for both a KU student and the Vietnamese orphans she helped.

Nikki Tran, 21, a pharmacy major at KU, left Vietnam when she was 8. But after hearing family members talk about poverty in Vietnam, she decided she wanted to help the people in her native land.

So Tran collected $2,600 in tips working as a manicurist at Lawrence's Nail Citi while also attending classes. Instead of using the tips to pay her own expenses, she bought new clothes, textbooks, rice and a picnic feast for more than 100 children in a Vietnamese orphanage.

Stunned by the poverty she witnessed, she now hopes to use her pharmacy degree to do international work.

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