World Vision Hong Kong in Vietnam (2022)

World Vision Hong Kong in Vietnam (2022)

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In recent years, Vietnam has been experiencing huge economic growth, progressing from one of the poorest in the world to a middle-income economy in less than 40 years, thanks to a series of reforms and favourable global trends. Besides the economy, access to health, education and infrastructure services has also significantly improved. Nevertheless, if Vietnam is to become a high-income country by 2045 as it aspires, it will need to address several challenges, such as an ageing population, environmental degradation and climate change, which may undermine its progress of development.

World Vision has been working in Vietnam since 1988, collaborating with the government, other NGOs, corporates and communities to implement a variety of holistic, long-term development programmes across 17 cities and provinces, including 30 ongoing Area Programmes in 2023.

In 2022, World Vision Hong Kong contributed approximately HK$10.32 million to support 3 APs and 1 other project in Vietnam, benefiting about 70,410 people.
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2022 Work Highlights

Area Programmes

World Vision Hong Kong supported 3 APs to improve children’s growth environment and empower community members to be resilient, that they would become self-sustainable and be free from the poverty trap.

Child Protection

  • Constructed new concrete inter-village roads to protect children from injuries and accidents, while also improving the livelihoods of local small businesses, benefiting about 7,500 people.
  • Provided training on child protection issues as part of celebration events on festivals and special occasions. Over 5,610 primary and secondary school students were trained on the prevention of violence and injuries at a Mid-Autumn Festival event.
  • Raised information security awareness of about 3,130 children by organising a contest, thereby reducing violence, abuse and injuries.

Education

  • Collaborated with local communities to build playgrounds and community centres, creating safe venues for over 3,140 children to take part in extra-curricular activities, learn life skills and play.
  • Offered life skills training to more than 1,670 children.

Livelihoods

  • Constructed 8 new irrigation systems to provide water for farming and enhance harvest of crops, benefitting about 3,160 people.
  • Provided training on improved sustainable and climate-smart agricultural techniques for about 2,980 people.
  • Supported 104 savings groups, enabling about 2,300 members to save regularly and draw loans for urgent needs or business purposes.

Health and Nutrition

  • Provided growth monitoring for over 2,050 children under 5, of which 240 malnourished children further received food assistance, animals and vegetable seeds.
  • Provided counselling on nutrition, infectious diseases and injury prevention for more than 2,000 pregnant mothers or caregivers with children aged under 24 months.

WASH

  • Provided 1,840 households with access to handwashing stations, and distributed handwashing supplies to more than 19,030 community members to prevent COVID-19.
  • Provided training for about 6,190 households to learn to purify and store drinking water.

Funding (HK$): $10,086,270; No. of Beneficiaries: 70,020

Education Project

  • Provided bicycles for poor students aged 10 to 15 living in remote areas heavily affected by natural disasters, resulting in improved school attendance rate and academic performance.

Funding (HK$): $233,400; No. of Beneficiaries: 390

Total Funding (HK$): 10,319,670; Total No. of Beneficiaries: 70,410


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