Thanks to non-governmental Holt International Children's Services in Vietnam, many support programs have been implemented by Khanh Hoa Department of Labor, War Invalids & Social Affairs in an effort to help increase needy children's chances of getting to school for a better life...
Thanks to non-governmental Holt International Children’s Services in Vietnam, many support programs have been implemented by Khanh Hoa Department of Labor, War Invalids & Social Affairs in an effort to help increase needy children’s chances of getting to school for a better life.
Financial aid for students
Implemented since 2016, the sub-project on school grant for poor children is sponsored by Holt with the target to help decrease school drop-out. So far, the sub-project has offered grants totaling more than VND1 billion to 551 poor children. Le Thi Ngoc Anh, 9/5 class, Tran Dai Nghia Junior High School, Cam Lam District, one of the recipients says, “I thought of dropping out of school to work to support my family. Thanks to Holt scholarships, which help cover my annual school expense, as well as my teachers’ encouragement, I am able to continue my learning at school.”
Khanh Hoa Social Work Center has cooperated with Holt to donate 35 scholarships worth VND300,000/ month to needy and deserving students in Cam Lam in the 9 months of the 2019 – 2020 school year, says Tran Hiep, Director of Khanh Hoa Social Work Center.
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12-year-old Nguyen Thanh Hue, Khanh Hoa Rehabilitation Education Center for Disabled Children has received a monthly scholarship. She was unluckily born with hearing impairment and mutism. So happy with the support, her granddad Che Van Duc says, “The girl shows her thirst for learning. When she was still a young child, she used to cry a lot when unable to join her friends to go to school. Now, she is learning at Khanh Hoa Rehabilitation Education Center for Disabled Children. We are trying our best to overcome difficulties to send her to school. We are living in Cam Lam, far from her school. We take her to school and back home every week.”
Nguyen Thi Bich Thao, a coordinator of Holt of the Southern Central region says such children deserve mental and material support for their effort in study. The scholarships have shown the burden-sharing effort of Holt International Children’s Services to help children in need.
More chances for children in need
For several years, Holt has provided support for hundreds of vulnerable children in Khanh Hoa to overcome difficulties in life through sub-projects on family strengthening, education, single mum support and pre-school education. Khanh Hoa Social Work Center takes responsibility to guide vulnerable people to make good use of the grants, helping them to improve their life.
In the 2019-2022, Holt plans to develop the special education sub-project designed to support the reintegration of disabled children at social support service centers in Khanh Hoa back into their families and communities. The sub-project will cover part of the cost of secure accommodation and proper physical therapy services. Accordingly, support will go to students in poverty, living far from schools which are for those with special needs. The children, while waiting for their own families to resettle their life and build a long-term care, will benefit from physical therapy services right at the families giving childcare or at sub-project staff’s houses during 10 months at most, according to Nguyen Thi Bich Thao.
Holt has provided practical assistance to help children in need. Khanh Hoa Department of Labor, War Invalids & Social Affairs will increase social work collaborators, professional staff and project staff at the center to assess the situations and demands of needy children for making suitable suggestions for each support program, says Vo Binh Tan, Vice-Director of Khanh Hoa Department of Labor, War Invalids & Social Affairs.
Thanh Truc
Translated by N.T
