NEWS ARCHIVE – FAMILIES AND CHILDREN

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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15 New Children Enter Children’s Homes

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...

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Supporting A Young Mother and Her Family

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...

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