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Communication Night Reaches Community With Early Childhood Development Messages
Nothing draws a crowd like the chance to see friends and family perform on stage. This makes Communication Nights an especially effective tool for widely communicating community development messages in rural villages. A recent Communication Night intended to...
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Flower Growing Club Update: A New Season
Our flower growing club has just come through a successful winter season and is now looking ahead to summer.Previously people in the area only grew flowers to sell at Lunar New Year (in January or February). They were only familiar with winter flowers. Each summer...
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Study Tour to Effective Child-Friendly Library
Teachers at one Hoai Duc secondary school where we are helping them implement a reading program, visited a very effective child-friendly library at The Gateway School to learn from their experience and see their library operation first-hand. Gateway’s leaders shared...
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Reading Day at Child-friendly Library Creates Excitement
When we help a school install a child-friendly library, we not only supply equipment and books, we also plan library activities to help develop and maintain a reading culture in the school. A recent "Reading Day" in one Hoai Duc school, created a lot of excitement for...
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Update on Hydroponics Model
YWAM Mercy Vietnam has developed a hydroponics model in one urbanizing Hoai Duc community to bring higher incomes for suburban farmers while reducing harm caused by the overuse of insecticides and herbicides. After setting up the model, we regularly visit the owner,...
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Celebrating “Cold Foods” Festival in the Children’s Homes
Although originating from China, the Cold Food Festival in Vietnam has its own meaning and style. While the Chinese avoid the cooking fire and eat only cold food on March 3 by the lunar calendar, Vietnamese people cook as normal but have created TROI-CHAY cakes to...
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YWAM Mercy Helps Blind Child Receive Special Care
YWAM Mercy Vietnam has been helping Loi (center) since she was a toddler. Even though we have arranged for her to meet with specialists who have tried various treatments, Loi's eyesight has been getting progressively worse and she is now blind. She is the third...
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Child in Our Care Wins Bronze Medal at Citywide Athletic Competition
Kim Dung (17 years old, pronounced "Zoom") won a Bronze Medal at the yearly student athletic competition organized by the Hanoi Department of Culture, Sport and Tourism in collaboration with the Hanoi Department of Education and Training. The event took place March...
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Progress Report: Oanh’s New House
BEFORE: The old house which was in danger of collapsing AFTER: The new house is bright and airy, a safe place for Oanh's family. In December 2018, we shared the urgent need of Oanh and her family to rebuild their crumbling home. (Read Can You Help Oanh's Family Build...
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