CURRENT NEWS
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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Local Leaders Bring Tet Greetings to New YWAM Mercy Office
YWAM Mercy celebrated our first Tet Holiday in our new offices this year. Local leaders from Hoai Duc, Ba Vi and Luc Nam visited us to celebrate and thank YWAM Mercy for our efforts and support during the year.During these happy meetings, we reviewed project...
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Annual HIWC Charity Bazaar Helps Us Communicate With Thousands
The annual Hanoi International Women's Club (HIWC) Charity Bazaar gave YWAM Mercy an opportunity to share with many of the 8,500 attendees about our work developing impoverished communities.The more than $112,000 raised raised by HIWC from the Bazaar will be used by...
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Parenting Class Reaches Over 200 Women
Strong families lead to strong communities. With this in mind, we recently held a training on "The Role of the Family in Caring For and Educating Children" for 206 women in one Luc Nam community.The participants, who are all members of the local Women's Union,...
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Education Assistance Keeps Kids in School
For the last 15 years, every summer YWAM Mercy has raised funds to provide educational assistance to school-aged children in difficult circumstances in the areas where we work. Every July our staff spend a significant amount of their time visiting families and...
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Children’s Homes Update: Family Meetings and Study Results
Children in our three Homes finished their 2018 - 2019 school year in the last week of May with better results than the last school year. In the Vietnamese education system, students with an overall average score for all subjects from 8.0 to 10.0 are considered...
read moreCURRENT NEWS – ECONOMIC EMPOWEREMENT
Asparagus Model Offers Farmers a Higher Profit Crop Option
In recent years, YWAM Mercy Vietnam has been helping one community introduce new agricultural technologies and testing methods. We have implemented many crop models which show how raising different crops can bring higher profits than raising rice. This year the...
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Effective Communication and Negotiation Skills for Family Business
Without strong communication and negotiation skills, farmers may find it difficult to successfully navigate challenges such as securing capital, avoiding bad debt, accessing markets and even getting good family cooperation. YWAM Mercy Vietnam provides training in...
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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...
read moreCURRENT NEWS – BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Introducing SBS-Smart Business Solutions Joint Stock Company
Since 2009, the Small and Medium Enterprises Development project organized by YWAM Mercy Vietnam has had significant success helping thousands of enterprises in Hoai Duc improve their work environment. In 2018, the project will continue to expand its non-profit...
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Hoai Duc Business Associations Host Entrepreneurs Day Celebration
On 13 October 2017, we were honored to be invited to share in the Entrepreneurs Day celebration of several Hoai Duc Business Associations. The event attracted over 230 attendees including representatives of the Hanoi Business Association, district and commune leaders...
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HanoiSME Honors YWAM Mercy Vietnam
Last month, Mr. Mario Bruehlmann, the Founder of Swiss Consulting Group and the CEO of Swiss Create, YWAM Mercy Vietnam's partner in our Small and Medium Enterprises Development Project, and Ms. Roslyn Jackson, the Director of YWAM Mercy Vietnam, received awards and...
read moreCURRENT NEWS – ENVIRONMENT AND SANITATION
Hydroponics: A Solution for Suburban Farmers
Vietnam needs to replace unsafe and unproductive farming practices which pollute the environment and damage people’s health. Hydroponics may be part of the solution.Hydroponics is a method of growing plants in a nutrient-rich water-based environment. It has many...
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Evaluation Shows Biogas Effort Hampered by Pork Price Crisis
Besides monitoring the impact of our work while it is going on, we also do a thorough evaluation at the end of every phase to see what went right, what could be improved, and how to move forward. Recently, we evaluated our biogas work from February 2014 to February...
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Pig Raising Households Face Severe Losses
Market price instability is one of the biggest challenges with the animal husbandry industry in Vietnam. Whether raising animals as a household or as part of a larger farming model, most animal raising households understand that price fluctuations are an...
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BA VI
Children’s Homes Update: Family Meetings and Study Results
Children in our three Homes finished their 2018 - 2019 school year in the last week of May with better results than the last school year. In the Vietnamese education system, students with an overall average score for all subjects from 8.0 to 10.0 are considered...
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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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Parenting Class Reaches Over 200 Women
Strong families lead to strong communities. With this in mind, we recently held a training on "The Role of the Family in Caring For and Educating Children" for 206 women in one Luc Nam community.The participants, who are all members of the local Women's Union,...
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Asparagus Model Offers Farmers a Higher Profit Crop Option
In recent years, YWAM Mercy Vietnam has been helping one community introduce new agricultural technologies and testing methods. We have implemented many crop models which show how raising different crops can bring higher profits than raising rice. This year the...
read moreHOAI DUC
Effective Communication and Negotiation Skills for Family Business
Without strong communication and negotiation skills, farmers may find it difficult to successfully navigate challenges such as securing capital, avoiding bad debt, accessing markets and even getting good family cooperation. YWAM Mercy Vietnam provides training in...
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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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