NEWS ARCHIVE – FAMILIES AND CHILDREN
Educational Assistance Impact: Your Gifts Keep Her Going
Each year, when I receive a gift from YWAM Mercy before the new school year, I am very happy and touched. I wish the sponsors good health! I hope they continue to send us new book bags, notebooks, and uniforms next year. Nhi has much to overcome, but she enjoys school...
Education Assistance Impact: An Opportunity for Nam
It’s a common story. Nam’s parents divorced. Afterwards, his father went to work in China. His mother remarried and left Nam and his brother with their grandmother since they would not be accepted in her new family. Neither parent provides for the boys financially,...
Education Assistance Impact: One year closer to Thuy’s big dream
Thuy, who is in 6th grade, lives with her mother and grandmother. Her mother, Sang, has neurological problems. She is strong but struggles with coordination. She needs help with almost everything. Thuy doesn't know her father. The family lives in a small house with...
Positive Disciple Strengthens Parent-Child Connection
As part of our Early Childhood Development projects we organize training courses to improve professional skills for preschool teachers and also provide seminars for parents and community members to help them develop helpful child care skills that will strengthen the...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...