Fw:Re: 【Public Spirit Connection from Peking University】About HSCV Visiting
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From: "tran tra my" <trantr...@gmail.com>
Date: 2013-06-26 12:51:57
To: "陈钘" <chenxin...@163.com>,"Annetta De Vet" <annett...@hscv.org>
Subject: Re: 【Public Spirit Connection from Peking University】About HSCV Visiting
Before discussing about the schedule, I would love to introduce something about our Girls Foster Home as well as some other general information HSCV programs. Please forward this email so that your whole group gets a copy.
Our organization is Humanitarian services for children of Vietnam (HSCV) established by Mr. Charles F. De Vet (American) and his daughter Annetta De Vet in 2004. Our first programs focused on poor children living in rural Hanoi. We started with educational scholarships and paying for medical treatments including orthopedic, burn scar and open heart surgeries. By the fall of 2004, with a staff of 3, we distributed rice to the first 20 families. This program is still in place and core to the work we are doing. We found that scholarships alone were often not enough to keep children in school. Families still needed their children to contribute to the family income, either by working in the rice fields or helping to sell goods at market. By supplementing families with rice, children were not only staying in school they were able to concentrate on their studies when they got home and they were going to school with a full belly. Today we donate rice to 180 families in 7 villages in Hanoi and the surrounding provinces. It costs $200 a year to feed a family and $80 a year to provide a scholarship for a child in the countryside.
Since 2004 we have expanded our work and have donated the following:
- Monthly donation of rice: 180 families
- Scholarship 1 – 12th grade: 450 students
- Post High School Scholarships: 92 students
- Bicycles: 370
- Wheel chairs: 17,050
- Heart surgeries: 72 patients
- Orthopedic surgeries: 260 cases
Our newest endeavor is the Girls' Foster Home. We currently have 11 girls (from 5 -17 years old) living at the Foster Home. It is always our goal to keep the girls with their families if at all possible. Family is so important to the development of a child and the Vietnamese have a very strong sense off family. However, in some cases the best option is to bring the girls to the foster home. We find the girls a number of ways. The first is through our programs mentioned above. We also work very closely with the local governments and we have strong relationships with local officials, social workers and teachers. Frequently they learn of children that are in need of our assistance. Additionally we work closely with another organization that focuses on street children and children that have been trafficked. Their organization focuses has a home for boys, when they find a girl that is need of help they refer them to us.
HSCV Team members visit the homes of all of the children to perform a case study. If it is determined that the girls should come to our home we open a space for them. The home has been open for about 2 years. The girls are very well adjusted and happy. The girls are welcome to stay at the home until they are 18 or if they want to pursue further education such as college or vocational training they can remain in the home.
The girls are very supportive of one another. We pair older girls with younger girls in the rooms so that they can help take care of each other. All of the girls help with chores including cooking and cleaning. All of the girls attend public schools in Hanoi. Some of the girls are very bright and do very well at school, while others struggle. The ones the struggle tend to be the ones that have had limited access to education.
We have recently signed a lease on a second home. It is located across the street. We believe we will be able to help up to 16 addition girls in that home, but do not plan on opening the second home until later in the year.
Well, you would be
curious why we only receive girls, not boys. After travelling around Vietnam,
our president sees that Vietnamese girls are more vulnerable than boys. You
know, Vietnam is a society that values boys than girls. Therefore, opening a
home for disadvantaged girls is one of the ways to support them access
knowledge and other social services equally.
I hope you find these information useful. And I have some small questions before making a plan for your visit.
1. How many people are there in your group?
2. You have any ideas of what activities you want to do with the girls? And how many hours? (morning, afternoon or the whole day)
Please become our friend on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HSCV1?fref=ts and learn more about us.
Look forward to hearing from you.
Many thanks,
My
Dear Ms.My,I wonder if you had got the message from Ms.Trang. We are a students' association focusing on public welfare and social work from Peking University. And we will arrive in Hanoi on 7.7 to do some research and communication work. So far we've made an appointment with Tea Talk on 7.9 and two top universities in Hanoi about interconnecting.We are very much interested in HSCV's efforts and operation management, and your contribution to the children who need to be taken good care of. As for me, I myself is major in Sociology, so it adds to my interest and curiosity. We sincerely hope we can have a connection on 7.10 if it is convenient and suitable for you(For your information, it is the only whole vacant day for our team, hope you are excuse for our tight schedule) .Thanks a million.Looking forward to your reply.Yours, Sincerely
Public Spirit Connection of Peking University
--陈钘CristinaSociology DepartmentPeking UniversityMobile: +86-18800108089E-mail: chenxin...@163.comRejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation.