With a total of 326 children (155 girls), Nuoc Trong nursery school is supposed to be among the main kindergartens in Tan Hoi village. Operated by the workforce of 10 staff and 19 teachers, the kindergarten is still considered to be underdeveloped with the lack of necessary facilities. Indeed, the school is totally short of teaching tools and there are not enough toys to help the kids to develop their intelligence as well as social skills properly. Additionally, the majority of teachers are young and inexperienced, thus suffering a great deal of difficulties in teaching and nurturing the kids. Furthermore, a number of classrooms in the school are quite poorly decorated, which may make it much harder in stimulating the children’s spiritual awareness and growth.

Organize activities for the kids (teaching, singing, playing games...); do gardening (planting, picking-up grass, etc.); join in with repairing house or other manual works.

Volunteers will stay at the dormitory with basic conditions. Meals will be prepared by volunteers, or sometimes dine in the local restaurant nearby.

Tay Ninh, Ho Chi Minh city

Tan Son Nhat International Airport (SGN)

Public bus

Sleeping bag, raincoat, info materials and pictures of your country, presents, toys and activity materials for the children if you have prepared any.

Vinh Son orphanage is an organization held by a group of catholic people who have a warm heart to help poor children improve their life by attending schools. There are more than 100 children from 3 to 12 year-old from poor families where parents don’t have any condition to take care of their children. As a result, they don’t go to school although studying is a right of children. Thanks to volunteers of Vinh Son orphanage, the unlucky children are found and summoned to join the class held by them with hope for a better life. The local volunteering teachers teach them reading, writing and calculating while preparing documents for them to apply to public school at the same time. The teachers also give them moral lessons so they can stay away from social evils.

Organize activities and teach English; conduct small workshops about child’s right for the kids here, get adult, young parents who live nearby involved.

Vinh Son school for poor children/ orphans

Tan Son Nhat airport (SGN)

Public bus

Volunteers will stay at the guest house nearby school. Meals are at local restaurant.

Sleeping bag, toiletries, info materials and pictures of your country, toys and learning materials for the children if you have.

The mission of Phuc Tue Center is to help disabled children become more independent in their everyday life by building their self-confidence. At the centre we aim to help educate and improve mental health, as well as provide development and vocational skills training to help integrate these individuals back into employment. This not only allows these individuals to feel independent in their everyday life but this will also lessen the potential burden on the family and society. Currently, the centre has 80 disabled children with ailments including Down’s syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Autism, children who have been victims of Agent Orange, as well as other mental illnesses. The Centre has applied the specific education measures which are suited for each individual and has used psychotherapy methods in attempts to rehabilitate the mentally disabled. Some of the children are treated with medicine while others are not.

Organize activities for the kids; do gardening (planting, picking-up grass, etc.); join repairing house or other manual works

Phuc Tue disabled and autism children center – Hanoi

Noi Bai International Airport (HAN)

Public bus

Volunteers will stay at the dormitory with basic conditions. Breakfast and dinner will be provided at accommodation, only lunch at local restaurant near project site.

Sleeping bag, pillow, toiletries, info materials and pictures of your country, toys and learning materials for the children if you have.