Unit 4: For A Better Community - Reading

Projects Abroad Vietnam is a Non-Governmental Organization. Its main placements mainly focus on providing care for children with disabilities, and its main partners include Hanoi Friendship Village, Hope Center, Phuc Tue Center for intellectual disabled children, etc. Standards of cleanliness and sanitation in care centres can often be quite poor. Many of the children that attend daycare facilities also come from low-income families where this isn’t a priority. This means that the spread of infections and sickness is common. We educate and run activities to promote proper hygiene, with the aim of improving overall health in these care centres. We aim to promote a lifestyle of proper nutrition, exercise and medical care and life skill education targeting healthy behaviour. Our health education programme also includes gender education. Volunteers arc encouraged to include physical activities in their daily routines, promoting healthy foods as well as good hygiene practices. It has been shown that a lack of stimulation in early years, particularly in situations of poverty or neglect, can lead to delayed development later in life. With that in mind, we aim to improve the emotional and cognitive development of the children we work with through regular games, activities and interaetion with our volunteers, while taking care to include and offer the same level of attention to each child. In Viet Nam. there are very limited resources made available for people with disabilities. Those with disabilities can be marginalized and have severely restricted opportunities when it comes to finding work. This has a huge impact on their quality of life. By providing individualized care and attention, we can give more specialized and worthwhile treatment to those who are most in need.