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Mid-Autumn Festival Brings Joy and Smiles to Children’s Homes
In Vietnam, mid-Autumn Festival is always a special day for children. Kids excitedly decorate a tray of fruits, carry star-shaped lights together and enjoy a delightful lion dance. This year, children in YWAM Mercy's Community-based Children’s Homes had a meaningful...
Education Assistance Impact: Nguyet
Nguyet is 11 years old and in 5th grade. She, her younger brother and her father all suffer with illnesses. They live with her 70-year-old grandmother. The only member of the family able to work and make an income is Nguyet's mother. Although her parent's can't help...
Education Assistance Impact: Thuong
Thuong was born in 2010 in one of the most crowded and impoverished villages in her area. She has four siblings. Her house was badly degraded so, the Government Fund and the Youth Union supported her family to repair their house. Her father has a heart and liver...
Goat Farmers Gain Access to Experts, Visit Successful Goat-raising Operation
Animal-raising provides sustainable increases in income and a path out of poverty. It also takes some skill to be successful. In our experience, visiting a location to see successful farmers brings the biggest change. For this reason, YWAM Mercy and SSCD organized a...
Making Troi Cakes: Fun Family Tradition Celebrated in Children’s Homes
Celebrating traditional festivals helps keep children connected to their community and culture. On the third day of the third lunar month, Vietnamese celebrate Tet Han Thuc or Cold Foods Festival. Children all over Vietnam, but especially in the north, enjoy making...
Goat Raising Offers Families a Viable Business Model
When Mr. Thu arrived back in Vietnam, after working in Cyprus as a foreign worker, he was looking for viable ways to provide for his family. His wife had been successfully raising pigs for a number of years, after taking part in YWAM Mercy’s Opportunity Team. She...
Dung’s First Tet in the Children’s Home
DUNG (pronounced "Zoom", 11 years-old, in blue jacket) joined one of YWAM Mercy's community-based Children's Homes last October. He is one of 15 children who entered the three Homes in 2021. His life has been difficult up to this point. Knowing his mother had...
15 New Children Enter Children’s Homes
Some of the children who have recently entered the Homes and have yet to be sponsored At the end of 2021 YWAM Mercy welcomed 15 new children to our three community-based Children's Homes after they were found to be in unsafe situations by local leaders and other...
Calf Brings Highest Price Ever in YWAM Mercy Cow-bank
They say good things come in small packages and that was certainly the case with Mr. Vuong's cow. Mr. Vuong and his wife joined a YWAM Mercy Opportunity Team in 2019 hoping for the chance to raise a cow to increase their income. They live with their son in a very...