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__________________________________________________ ASSISTING VIETNAMESE AND OTHER ORPHANS & VOLUNTEERING IN THEIR COMMUNITIES TODAY AVI is currently not in a
position to provide direct financial assistance abroad but gladly posts
notices from organisations and non-profits that can. The below
organisations give short-term or long-term assistance to the welfare of
orphans and Vietnamese today. GENERAL NOTICES:
Giving a child a mother, brothers and sisters and a home - the SOS Children's Village concept is a proven model which transcends borders, politics, religion and culture. SOS Children's Villages revolve around the effort to give children who have lost their parents or who are no longer able to live with them a permanent home and a stable environment in their birth country. The SOS Children's Village family-like structure is formed by four basic principles: mother, brothers and sisters, house and village. Each child is given a so-called SOS mother. She is the main person who cares for this child and is a substitute for the child's natural parents. She lives in a house together with the children that she is looking after. Together with them she organises the family's daily life. She creates strong and dependable relationships and gives the children a safe and loving home. The job of an SOS Children's Village Mother is usually carried out by single women who have to complete an extensive training programme. They are supported in their highly responsible task by educational co-workers as well as by women who are still training to be SOS Children's Village mothers. On average an SOS Children's Village has between ten and fifteen family houses. The village provides the background for an extended family community. This supplies the children with cultural roots and gives them a feeling of belonging. At the same time, village life is an important bridge to the local community. The SOS Children's Village should be an open place which not only promotes the integration of the SOS Children's Village children into the local district but also supports interaction and encounters with neighbouring communities. Beyond that there are also other types of facilities and aid programmes whose main intention it is to improve living conditions for families in the neighbourhood on a long-term basis. The social centres, kindergartens, medical centres, training centres and schools are not only used by children and youths from the SOS Children's Village but are also there for the general public. There are several SOS villages in Vietnam. The Go Vap Ho Chi Minh City SOS Children's Village consists of 20 family houses, which were constructed in the local style and are ideal for the hot climate. They are grouped around a central village pond. There is also a community centre. Many of the children living at the SOS Children's Village Go Vap suffer from the delayed consequences of the defoliant used during the war. A specially trained full-time nurse takes care of them. Some children have been operated on successfully.An SOS Hermann Gmeiner School was opened in September 1993. At first it was only a primary school but it was soon extended and now offers classes up to secondary level. The SOS Kindergarten is open to children from the neighbourhood. There is an SOS Social Centre, which caters to the needs of the local population. Children of working mothers are looked after at the day-care centre. For older youths of the SOS Children's Village there is an SOS Youth House, where they are prepared for their independent lives while they still attend school or do their vocational training. SOS Children's Villages of Vietnam Congregation
of St Paul of Chartres in Danang Sister Anne writes: Project dedicated to allow children in orphanages to reach their maxiumum potentional http://www.givingitbacktokids.org/ House of Grace Website states: Providing Education, Vocational training & Rehabilitation for Disadvantaged Children with Disability in Vietnam. Involved is Hoa Stone, a Vietnamese orphan, author of 'Heart of Stone', former Australian and now HCMC resident, http://www.houseofgrace.com.au/about_us.html Teach Me To Fish Project FWD: Teach Me To Fish (TM2F) is in America's Giving Challenge—Let's win $50,000! Hi Friends and Colleagues, Kids Without Borders ( www.KidsWithoutBorders.org ) Teach Me To Fish (TM2F) cause just entered in America's Giving Challenge, which gives us a chance to win $50,000! Check out: http://apps.facebook.com/causes/posts/317186 Taking Time Off By
Colin Hall, Princeton Review, Ron Lieber, Princeton Review, Princeton
Review Go Vap
orphanage As report by Kim Browne, VN adoptee from UK Kim writes: "With
regards to volunteering at Go Vap orphanage the minimum requirement Kim is also happy
to hear from adoptees wishing to volunteer via her personal email. Ask
AVI for details or see her Facebook group called 'Vietnam Volunteer
Network'. Also see her facebook cause 'Helping Hydrocephalus Kids In Vietnam'
and find out more about how you can help.
Humanitarian
Services for Children of
Vietnam: CNCF writes: Christina Noble is the founder of The Christina Noble Children's Foundation (CNCF). It is not the philosophy of CNCF to send orphans into overseas adoption except in a very few individual cases - this is not an adoption agency but instead seeks to maximize the potential of each child living their life in based Vietnam. This is accomplished within the context of the family and the community whenever possible and always with love and respect for the dignity of each child as an individual. CNCF is an International Partnership of people dedicated to serving children in need of emergency and long-term medical care, nutritional rehabilitation, educational opportunities, vocational training, job placement and the protection of children at risk of economic and sexual exploitation. The Foundation is well established in Vietnam and has managed a good relationship with the Ministry of MOLISA (Ministry of Labour Invalids & Social Affairs). More can be read in Christina Noble (1998). 'Mama Tina'. London: John Murray Publishers. CNCF has contacts in the UK , USA, France, Ireland, Vietnam, Australia , Canada, Switzerland and Japan. Mail address: Po Box 386, Saigon Post Office Centre, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Other Humanitarian Aid Links ______________________________________ Ao
Trang - Beautiful Vietnamese Calendas and posters for fundraising Blue Dragon - Helping Street
Kids Community Aid Abroad-VN Program Interplast
- Reconstructive Surgery for Vietnam I Documentary
out from The Shadows KOTO - Know One, Teach
One/Street Voices Paul's Kids
Vietnam Children Assistance Project
Vietnam - Medical Assistance from
Australia South East Asian Children's Assistance
Program United National Development Program Vietnam Veterans With A Mission - Assisting "The Children of The Dust"
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Posting your assistance group ______________________________________ If you would like your humanitarian activities to be listed here (must be related to Vietnamese orphans and not for profit) please send an email and we can post your link here. Please note that all individuals need to research the work of the groups listed here as they are posted in good faith but not backgrounded checked by AVI
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