NEWS ARCHIVE – FAMILIES AND CHILDREN

Education Assistance Impact: An

Education Assistance Impact: An

An is in grade 7 and was born with a withered arm. Her parents were young and inexperienced at the time, so they did not recognize that An couldn't use her right hand until she was three. In the years after, they took her to hospitals for treatment, but there was no...

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Children Visit Historical Sites on Summer Outing

Children Visit Historical Sites on Summer Outing

The 47 children living in YWAM Mercy Vietnam's three community-based Children's Homes had never been on a journey like this. It had been a tradition for members of the three homes to go together on a summer outing every few years to the beach or other vacation spot....

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Lunar New Year in the Children’s Homes

Lunar New Year in the Children’s Homes

Lunar New Year (Tet) celebrates the end of winter and welcomes spring in Asian countries. It usually occurs in January or February. For most Vietnamese, and the children in YWAM Mercy's three Children’s Homes, making traditional CHUNG cakes is a special time to cook...

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Education Assistance Impact: Nguyet

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...

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Education Assistance Impact: Thuong

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...

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Dung’s First Tet in the Children’s Home

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...

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