East Meets West (non-governmental organization)

East Meets West (EMW), known in the United States as Thrive Networks, is an international philanthropic non-governmental organization for people in Asia and Africa.

From Le Ly's early projects, Mothers Love Pediatric Clinic and Peace Village Medical Center, East Meets West was created in Vietnam.

EMW's neonatal health model was adapted and replicated to serve Laos, Cambodia, and Timor Leste in 2008 and more recently in India, Myanmar, and the Philippines.

[6][better source needed] In 2006, East Meets West organized medical equipment donations for Viet Duc Hospital in Hanoi.

In 2012, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded East Meets West a US$10.9 million grant to improve sanitation and hygiene practices among the rural poor in Vietnam and Cambodia.