Quy Nhon SOS Children’s Village

Statistics showed there are now about 52,000 underprivileged children, including 4,621 orphans, in the province. Many of them had to leave houses for earning their living.

The province’s Department of Labour, War Invalids, and Social Affairs and social organisations have focused on the child care and protection in the past few years, reaping many encouraging achievements.

The State budget annually offers over VND1 billion to 569 children, let alone many cared by the Youth Union’s members and businesses. Most of them were granted health insurance cards and scholarships.

Also, unfortunate children, including those with cleft lips and cleft palates, are offered free surgery each year. Rehabilitation equipment and wheelchairs were presented to disabled children.

However, many disadvantaged children haven’t still received any help from functional bodies. Their life is now facing the shortage of necessities.

The Quy Nhon SOS Children’s Village project is planned to be carried out in two phases. The village with 14 houses and essential items for 120-140 children will be built on an area of 28,000 s.q meters in the first phase. The rest is expected to be built on an area of 18,000 s.q meter in the second phase.

Together with other charity centers, the Quy Nhon SOS Children’s Village is expected to minimize the number of homeless orphans and underprivileged children.

The village will help them continue their studying and follow vocational training courses, gradually eradicating their inferiority complex about their situation to integrate into the society.

The village will also create favorable conditions in the child care and protection, particularly orphans and disadvantaged children.

• La Anh