Landon and Dick, December 24, 2005

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September 2, 2024


Hello Friends,


For the past several years near my birthday, I treaded water to raise funds for the Landon Carter Schmitt Memorial Fund (LCS Fund).


Last year, I set a personal record of three hours and forty minutes, a record I planned to break this year.

BUT... life? fate? bad luck? intervened.


Problems with my left leg and a shoulder injury have limited my ability to set my new record.


Undaunted, I have made a commitment to read 40+ books (I have already read 30) this year and still spend time in the pool every day.

Support Landon's Fund

In the past 15 years, together we have raised more than $900,000 to support

humanitarian projects in Vietnam in Landon’s memory including

  • a school for visually impaired and disabled children
  • a regulation size football (soccer) pitch,
  • several kindergartens to remote areas near the Laotian border
  • water treatment/sanitation facilities to these same hamlets.


Landon’s Fund has also provided

  • grants to combat human trafficking
  • addressed COVID relief
  • provided funding for children at risk by addressing their educational, medical, and nutritional needs.

In summary, we have improved the lives of hundreds of families and thousands of individuals with your generous support.


For 2024 our goal is to raise $100,000 – an amount that will drive funds raised since 2009 to one million dollars.

Support Landon's Children


  • If you have already sent a donation to Landon’s Fund this year, thank you for helping us meet this noteworthy goal!


  • If you are a regular donor to Landon’s Fund, please make a gift this year and consider increasing your gift if possible.


  •  If you have contributed to Landon’s Fund in the past, please consider making a gift this year at a level you are comfortable with.


  •  If you have not made a gift to Landon’s fund, please consider making a gift this year.


 Please share this letter with your friends and family who may have an interest in the work we are doing in Vietnam.


Use the link buttons to make a gift online or send a check to Mallory Slivka at the following address:


Ms. Mallory Slivka

The Greater Washington Community Foundation

1325 G Street NW, Suite 480

Washington, DC 20005

mslivka@thecommunityfoundation.org

(202) 864-6591


Make checks payable to The Landon Carter Schmitt Memorial Fund/CFNCR



We invite you to be as generous as your circumstances allow.


You are the POWER that makes all that we do possible. We so appreciate your past support. The children of Vietnam thank you.


With love and gratitude to you for what we have accomplished together,


Dabney and Dick

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The Landon Carter Schmitt Memorial Fund
Dabney and Dick Schmitt
7106 Holyrood Drive
McLean, VA 22101