Clean Water Vietnam Project #28522

Clean Water for Communities in Vietnam

by Taiwan Fund for Children and Families

Project Report | May 31, 2019
Changing health behaviors

By Wen Hung | Project Leader

I love to drink more water.

“Water tastes sweet! Now I love to drink water!” It’s a message told by a little boy who I met at school visit last time. I was so glad to know that students began to drink water more, and it means that the health of children is improving through changing health behaviors.

We will continue to focus our efforts on raising health consciousness of clean water in Vietnam. We not only educate students in school about the importance of clean water, but deliver this key message to their families in the communities. We found some students started to fill up bottles and bring clean water back for their families which means their parents started to know that they need clean water. We have no solution for communities yet, so we do encourage students to do so whenever school opens.

The existing Water Purifier System in school is not theessential problem-solving action to all families, however, it’s the first step we are going to do for their families by changing health behaviors.”

- Message from the representative of TFCF Vietnam Branch

Next challenge of the project

It’s been a year that we delivered clean water to students through Water Purifier System in two schools in Vinh Long Province. We found the difficulties and problem of system maintenance. We do care about this issue and are going to discuss with schools about how to ensure the water quality of Water Purifier System after maintenance actions done. Resources are limited, but we will keep resolving the critical issues and carry on the goal of our project to bring clean water to children in schools.

Thank you for being with us! Wish you all the best!

With gratitude,

Wen Hung

School visit by TFCF social workers

Chatted with a student about water in school

Home visit by TFCF social workers

Water tank at home

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Mar 11, 2019
Water Crisis in Vietnam

By Wen Hung | Project Leader

We need filtering water for drinking in Vietnam.

“How much do you understand about water in Vietnam? Would you insist on receiving clean water if you are living in poor circumstances? Raising public health consciousness of clean water is the topic we continue focusing on, and there is no doubt that International NGOs have to work with government to initiate advocacy. Therefore, people can have awareness and knowledge about clean water. However, the rapid economic development is accompanied by pollution increases which affect the quality of water supply in the country. We know that the Water Purifier System is not theessential problem-solving action, but it’s one of doable action we can help for needy children at school. We will continue to work with the local government to provide assistance for more needy households in communities.”

- Message from the representative of TFCF Vietnam Branch

Water supply and sanitation

Water is one of the most important resources in the world, especially accessing clean water for the sustainable socio-economic development in the rural areas of Vietnam. Making home water drinkable is a big challenge to Provincial and local governments, and we also endeavor to help needy families access to potable water and sanitation in Vinh Long Province. As we know that there are families with or without tap water currently, and our team has paid attention to assist them and increase the number of households with tap water. We are looking forward to receiving your support and donations to help more children and households regarding safe water supply and sanitation.

Wish you all the best!

With gratitude,

Wen Hung

Wash a laundry at home.

Home visited by TFCF social worker

Water tank at home

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Dec 17, 2018
Early season's greetings to everyone!

By Wen Hung | Project Leader

Meeting with Vinh Long UFO

“Throw back to last year when we considered the water issue for children in Vietnam and we decided to propose this project as soon as we could. There were simply not enough economic and technical resources around TFCF Vietnam, and we were grateful to bring this project to GlobalGiving and received your support and donations. Vinh Long Province is located in the Mekong Delta of southern Vietnam and many livelihoods in the basin depend on the river forfood and livelihoods locally due to the convenience to them. Definitely, it is a serious issue because the river water is polluted and has damaged local people's health and daily life.

We hope to bring more welfare benefits for needy children in communities. Therefore, we have met with Vinh Long Union Friendship Organization (Vinh Long UFO) to discuss and identify community needs through comprehensive review of Water System. We are looking forward to seeing more opportunities to collaborate with NGOs and local government in Vietnam.”

- Message from the representative of TFCF Vietnam Branch

What can we do more?

According to the existing resources and ability on hands, it seems that we are restricted and limited the scope of our services currently. With your support, we consider what we can do more for needy children together with you. We thank you for your assistance, and we would love to share more information and community needs with you in the future. I also want to take this time to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I'm offering these early wishes here and going to prepare Christmas events for our children soon in TFCF Vietnam. See you next year!

With the season’s greeting,

Wen Hung

Local water tanks in Vietnam

Household water in Vietnam

River of garbage in Vinh Long Province

Water System installation in An Binh school

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