'Save the Children', the international non-governmental organization headquartered in the US, yesterday donated a mobile swimming pool to two schools in Nha Be District, one of the vulnerable areas to floods in Ho Chi Minh City. Speaking at the receiving ceremony, Nguyen Thi Hieu, the principal of the Hiep Phuoc school, said, "We have desired for the swimming pool for a long time, especially after one of our pupils died last year for being drowned in a shrimp pond." "My pupils had to bike 20km to learn swimming at the nearest swimming pool here," she added. The pool and relevant equipment, with a total cost of VND75 million (US$3,600), is part of the US$49,600 project entitled 'Improving children and their families' resilience to natural disasters in Vietnam'. Besides Nha Be, the project also covers two other communes of My Thanh Bac and My Hanh Trung in Cai Lay District of the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang. Not only teaching swimming, the project is designed to … [Read more...] about ‘Save the Children’ donates swimming pool to HCMC schools
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Save the Children helps Typhoon Wutip-hit families
Save the Children helps Typhoon Wutip-hit families Tu Hoang By Tu Hoang in HCMC Save the Children is now providing grants to families who suffered losses due to Typhoon Wutip, which hit central Vietnam last September. The grants will be distributed to 1,200 households and an estimated 2,400 children living in four disadvantaged communes of Quang Trach and Bo Trach districts in Quang Binh Province. The money will be used to help repair houses and recover livelihoods. The financial donation is the second such distribution of Save the Children aid related to the storm and is part of a US$130,000 relief program for affected families in Quang Binh. Four days after the typhoon struck the central coast severely damaging schools, homes and other local infrastructure, Save the Children began providing educational materials and toiletries for families living in communes along the provincial shoreline. “Humanitarian response is one of Save the Children’s priorities,” … [Read more...] about Save the Children helps Typhoon Wutip-hit families
Save the Children supports Quang Binh people in recovery from Typhoon Wutip
(CPV) - Save the Children on December 23 started granting money to help families who suffered losses due to Typhoon Wutip, which hit the central region of Vietnam last September, to help repair houses and recover livelihoods. This is the second aid program of Save the Children relating to the typhoon, and will be distributed to 1,200 households, including about 2,400 children living in four disadvantaged communes of Quang Trach and Bo Trach districts in Quang Binh province. The grant is part of a USD130,000 relief programme for affected families in Quang Binh province. The typhoon hit the central coast on 30th September, damaging schools, homes and other local infrastructure works. Four days later, Save the Children began providing education materials and toiletries for families living in shore-line communes of the coastal province. "Humanitarian response is one of Save the Children's priorities," said Gunnar Andersen, the Vietnam Country Director of Save the Children. "Apart from … [Read more...] about Save the Children supports Quang Binh people in recovery from Typhoon Wutip
Chevron and Save the Children empower women entrepreneurs in Mekong Delta
Today a workshop was held among local government, the community, and Save the Children in Vietnam to review the performance of a Chevron-sponsored programme to provide loan and savings services and deliver business training to support women who run small businesses in the Mekong Delta. The programme, entitled "Economic Empowerment of Women Entrepreneurs", has enabled 482 women to access small loans in Can Tho city, and has provided agri-business management and financial skill training to an additional 264 women in Can Tho, Hau Giang, and Ca Mau last year. The workshop focused on lessons learned over the past year to prepare for the project's 2011-2012 plan. Save the Children reported that the programme had expanded its client base in 2010 to cover eight hamlets in Truong Xuan commune in Can Tho, with 90 per cent of the clients using their loans for income-generating activities such as raising pigs, weaving bamboo baskets, producing handicrafts, knitting, sewing, running small … [Read more...] about Chevron and Save the Children empower women entrepreneurs in Mekong Delta
‘Save the Children’ to open rep. office in Vietnam
Charity organisation ‘Save the Children UK’ has received a licence to open an umbrella office in Vietnam for all activities of "Save the Children" US, Japan and Switzerland. President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations Vu Xuan Hong handed over the licence to Pham Sinh Huy, a representative of the ‘Save the Children’ UK . Hong thanked the organisations for the assistance they have extended to projects supporting Vietnamese children, particularly disadvantaged kids. The official said he hoped that the merger will enable "Save the Children" to take up more activities in the future to assist the local children. … [Read more...] about ‘Save the Children’ to open rep. office in Vietnam