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A Vietnamese war child adopted by a British family has sold all of her possessions including a £500,000 home and sports car – to fund an orphanage in her home country.

Suzanne Hook, 42, was one of the first ‘air babies’ rescued during the Vietnam War after her desperate mother dumped her under a bush when she was born in 1969.

She was adopted by a British family aged three and used her golden opportunity for a better life to become an extremely successful business woman.

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Suzanne, whose Vietnamese name is Thi Hien, has now sold her £500,000 home in Buckinghamshire, Mercedes sports car and collection of 300 shoes.

She has also sold off all of her clothes and furniture to achieve her dream of setting up an orphanage for abandoned children in Vietnam.

Suzanne, who is abandoning her English life to run the Allambie Orphanage, in Ho Chi Minh City, admitted her ”whole life is up for sale”.

She said: ”I’m practically selling everything. My whole life is up for sale.

”I’ve had a comfortable adult life and now I’m giving it all up to live in Vietnam which will be the opposite.

”I’m leaving my friends and whole way of life to take on between eight and 10 children for the rest of my life. It is important to get a chance to better themselves.

”My life here has gone – it will be out in Vietnam with the children.

”I want to give them a future and educate them at a level to get them to university or a job and a home so they can stand on their own two feet.

”But also make them feel wanted, needed and loved. This is something I never felt when I was a child and it is important they have that.”

Suzanne, who is the daughter of a Vietnamese woman and black American soldier, was born in the middle of the violent war which ravaged her home country.

She was taken to an orphanage in 1969 and was suffering malnutrition and too weak to move when she was spotted by British nurses.

The nurses paved the way for Suzanne to be one of first ‘air babies’ rescued from the war in 1972 with the promise of a better life.

Her arrival at Gatwick Airport aged three years old made national news and she was adopted by a Christian Evangelical family in Hayes, Middlesex.

Suzanne left home when she was 18-years-old and went to catering school before working as a head chef in restaurants and cruise liners for 13 years.

Since 2002 she has built up a successful beauty firm Couture Nail Service, in Beaconsfield, Bucks, which has allowed her to plough money into the orphanage.

When she visited Vietnam during a career break in 2007 she went on a teaching course and tracked she tracked down her old orphanage.

Inspired by what she found Suzanne returned home and secured funding to open her own orphanage for five girls and four boys all aged between six and 16-years-old.

Allambie Orphanage is due to open in November and is named after the home which cared for Suzanne after she was abandoned by her mum.

Suzanne hopes that selling her Western possessions will pay the £950 a month costs until she attracts families to sponsor the children.

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  1. Chella_92 says:
    13 years ago

    inspirational, what a wonderful woman, all the best to her and her future.

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  2. Matthew says:
    12 years ago

    God Bless her and we’ve to supported her.

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