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Blue Dragon Children's Centre
Vietnam is continuing to experience rapid economic growth and predictably, the gap between rich and poor is widening. The rural-urban gap is substantial, but even within towns and cities there is an extraordinary imbalance between the wealthiest and the poorest residents. Blue Dragon works with families living in extreme poverty, on boats, in tents or shacks, who can not afford to send their children to school. Blue Dragon provides individualised programming for the most disadvantaged children to break the cycle of poverty through helping them to re-engage with education and training, while supporting their physical, social and psychological needs.

Hoi An Children's Home
In the villages, islands, and farmlands surrounding Hoi An town in central Vietnam , countless families live in poverty, and struggle to send their children to school.
The Hoi An Children's Home is an oasis for those children who want to attend school, but whose families are too poor to support them. The Home provides residential care and psychosocial support for about 30 girls and boys. Blue Dragon meets the costs of the children's accommodation, nutrition, and educational expenses as well as offering a range of services and activities that promote each child's holistic growth and development.
Recognising the difficulties the children face living away from their families, Blue Dragon tries to create a second home for them, where they have the space and support to be themselves.

For more information: www.streetkidsinvietnam.com

WE SUPPORT

Endangered Primate Rescue Center
One of our favourite places
to visit is The Endangered
Primate Rescue Center which
was established in 1993. This
was also the first wildlife rescue
centre to exist in Vietnam. The Centre’s objective is to rescue, rehabilitate, breed and eventually release the rarest and most endangered primates of Vietnam. Poaching poses the greatest threat to Vietnam’s primates, and primates are hunted and caught to be sold, for use in traditional Chinese medicine, as pets, or as food.
More info: www.primatecenter.org

Friends - The Restaurant
Children are not a tourist attraction, however we recommend a visit to FRIENDS in Phnom Penh; a non-profit restaurant run by former street youths in training.
Mith Samlanh / Friends works with homeless and vulnerable street children and adolescents, including their families, who are at high risk of exploitation and physical and emotional abuse, especially through forced commercial sex and violence in the streets.
More info:
www.streetfriends.org