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With CHEER's support, Tran Van Bac graduated from
Hue Medical School in
September 2003
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CHEER Projects
Building Schools
In 2002 one-third of all Vietnamese children did not make it to grade 5 because their families were poor and could not afford to pay the costs of their education. By building kindergartens, a joint effort between villagers and CHEER, we plan to give children from poor families a head start in health, nutrition, social skills, as well as intellectual and artistic development. Local communities are responsible for building classrooms or schools for kindergarteners. The villages in remote and rural areas are stymied: dealing with endemic poverty and wrestling with natural calamities, while trying to educate their children. They simply cannot build kindergarten classrooms on their own.
Since 2001, with the generous donation of four CHEER supporters, we built 8 kindergartens to accommodate more than 800 children in Quang Tri and Thua Thien - Hue Provinces, Central Viet Nam. The children at these kindergartens sing and dance, make art, and play games. They eat a hot lunch and take naps at noon. They return home in the late afternoon.
Kindergartens
The first three kindergartens were built in 2001 in Ai Tu, Quang Tri Province: KP4, Tan Pho and Lam Xuan Dong. Each school houses 30-45 students. In the following years, we added five more kindergartens. They are: Son Thuy, Dong Lam, Nghia Lo, Son Tung and Tien Non (under planning stage). Each of these schools can accommodate up to 100 students.
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Dr. Ton That Chieu at the inauguration of Son Tung kindergarten, December 2006 |
Children at Nghia Lo Kindergarten, 2007 |
Study Corners
Rural children in Viet Nam live in homes where they have no place of their own to do homework. More often than not, there is only one table, which is used by the family for everything from eating to working.
In 1998, CHEER started the Study Corner project: A desk, chair, and bookshelf provided to children to study. Since then hundreds of students have received study corners every year.
Other Projects:
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