Education for Development (EFD) believes that education improves the quality of life for disadvantaged children and youth. EFD strengthens and empowers local social organisations enabling them to improve and expand their educational services for disadvantaged children and youth. Through their development, disadvantaged children can gain fair and equal access to education and training thereby developing themselves to their full potential.
The Fundraising and Marketing Assistant will be based in Ho Chi Minh City and will be working with and supporting our Development Advisor, to ensure the success and implementation of EFD’s Fundraising and Marketing Programs
Blue Dragon Children's Foundation (www.streetkidsinvietnam.com) is an Australian NGO working with 900 disadvantaged children in central and northern Vietnam. We are committed to leading the way as a provider of excellent services to young people.
Blue Dragon is seeking to employ a Communications Officer, with a particular focus on child sponsorship, to be based in Hanoi.
Job Description The Communications Officer will be responsible for Blue Dragon’s child sponsorship system, volunteer management, and some administrative duties. Tasks will include: - Maintain a database of sponsors - Communicate with sponsors around the world, mostly through email - Liaise with program coordinators to gather and present information
Two non-governmental organizations of the U.S. World Vision and the U.K. Save the Children, provided money and relief goods worth VND1 billion ($56,000) for typhoon Ketsana victims in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Tri yesterday, Oct. 28. The World Vision granted 41 tons of rice, 43 tons of rice seed and 1,418 roofing sheets costing VND772 million to residents in the province’s Hai Lang District’s five hardest-hit communes. Meanwhile, the Save the Children donated VND233 million for 250 households in Hai Vinh commune to help tem restore production and normalize their lives, the Vietnam News Agency said Wednesday. Ketsana, the ninth typhoon in Vietnam so far, killed 202 people with damages estimated at VND16 trillion ($895.9 million).
An international conference aimed at raising awareness of ensuring the rights to human health and development opened in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi on Oct. 26. The four-day event was co-held by the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Propaganda and Education and Australia’s New South Wales University with the participation of 260 leading scientists and social activists worldwide. The conference includes a plenary session and supplementary meetings covering four main topics, including HIV/AIDS and other public health risks, mother and child health, and the impact of climate change and economic globalization on human health and development.
Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Mitsuo Sakaba has recently presented medical equipment worth $75,000 from the Japanese government to a group of volunteer doctors of the Vietnam Red Cross. The equipment included ultrasound machines, cardiac pacemakers, biochemical equipment and X-ray devices, the Voice of Vietnam Radio reported. The doctors will use these devices to provide medical check-ups and treatment to the poor, the disable and AO victims across the country. Over the past years, thanks to Japanese aid, the Vietnam Red Cross has implemented a mangrove forestation project worth nearly $4 million in eight northern provinces, helping local people protect the environment and improve their lives.
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health has praised non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for making practical contributions to public healthcare in Vietnam. Health Minister Nguyen Quoc Trieu gave the praise at the ministry’s first-ever meeting with representatives of NGOs operating in reproductive health, blindness and HIV/AIDS prevention, health education and humanitarian surgery in Hanoi on Oct.28.
The European Union (EU) and the U.K. non-governmental organization (NGO) of Marie Stopes International granted EUR2.45 million ($3.6 million) for a project to help improve reproductive health for poor rural communities in Vietnam and Cambodia. The EU contributed EUR1.8 million to the project and the rest from Marie Stopes International, the Vietnam News Agency said. The project aims to raise capabilities of local authorities and non-state providers of reproductive health services in Vinh Long and Thua Thien-Hue provinces in Vietnam and in Svay Rieng in Cambodia between 2010 and 2013.
Seventy two students and a teacher of a secondary school in Vietnam’s northern port city of Haiphong were hospitalized between Oct 27-28 because of gas choking. The city health authorities confirmed that the students fainted en mass at classes in Quan Toan Secondary School on Oct. 27, causing panic throughout the school with nearly 600 students which closed for two days, the Vietnam News Agency said Friday. Witnesses blamed the gas poisoning on Vietnam-Japan Steel Company, 200 meters behind the school, the agency added. Nguyen Van Phi director of the company said at a meeting with the municipal Department of Education and Training on Oct. 28 that his company had just invested $1 million into dust filter equipment.
Duy Xuyen District Water Drainage and Supply Enterprise kicked off the construction a VND4 billion ($224,000) clean water supply system in the central province of Quang Nam’s Nam Phuoc Township yesterday, Oct. 29. Water for Life Fund of the Netherlands granted EUR125,000 ($185,700) to the project and the Vietnamese province provided the rest as reciprocal capital, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reported Friday. The project will help provide clean water for 1,400 poor families in the township.
South Korea’s Ministry of Environment and Vietnam’s southern province of Tien Giang authorities have recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to support an environmental sanitation project in My Tho City. The project, which costs $133.25 million funded by the Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF), will be implemented in the city from now up to 2020. The project, which will be developed into two stages, will help treat wastewater and mitigate greenhouse effects.
