NEWS ARCHIVE – FAMILIES AND CHILDREN
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...
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...
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...
Supporting A Young Mother and Her Family
Duyen’s family is barely surviving. Before COVID, her mother worked in an industrial zone, leaving early in the morning and arriving home late each evening so her father had the responsibility for caring for her and her two younger sisters. He also tried to earn extra...
Education Assistance Impact: Your Support Gives Hao Hope
Hao (8) and his mother live with his grandparents. In addition to farming a small plot of land in Luc Nam, Hao's mother also works at a wood factory in their village. She has a goiter. Her health is not good, and she is often sick, yet she's the only one in the family...
Education Assistance Impact: A Heart to Help Mom, Now and in the Future
Photos: An preparing dinner and waiting for her Mom to return home from work. NOTE: She broke her arm when she slipped on a wet mossy area in the schoolyard. It's healing well. An (7) lives with her mother in a small house in Luc Nam. Her father died from liver...