Clean Water for Communities in Vietnam

“TFCF has supported the social work in Vinh Long province since 2015. Vinh Long province is 135 km far away from Ho Chi Minh City and we found children faced acute water and sanitation crisis during our visits. Most of families use river water in their daily lives, and some of them even don't have toilets. After estimating the impact of water, sanitation and hygiene on diseases of our assisted families, I think river water drinking is the key as a cluster of risk factors. We really hope the condition will be changed through our project which will benefit more children in Vinh Long. As a social worker, I will love to see the health of children improve. It is for sure that you can count on us and we look forward to the start of this project. Thank you for your support in this matter.”

- Message from Kevin, TFCF social worker in Vietnam

Project Kickoff

We have finalized two candidate schools in our project, including An Binh Secondary School and Tan Hanh Secondary School which are making good progress. We have visited them with the supplier recently since both schools obtained the approval from the local authority and were ready to start the project soon. In the meetings, we clarified most of issues and signed the agreements with two schools and the supplier. We also organized an introduction of water purifier system for the school principal and staff, including the functions and the procedure of installment by the supplier. Furthermore, the supplier has done good site surveys and finalized the detail and locations of the installment of water purifier system. It’s great to tell you that we have kicked off the project and the supplier will deliver all hardware and parts of system later to two schools separately. The installment of water purifier system will be started as soon as possible. Thank you for your great support and please help invite more people to join our project and let’s bring clean and safe water to schoolchildren together.

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Thank you and wish you all the best.

With gratitude,

Wen Hung

Links:

• TFCF Vietnam office FB (In Chinese & Vietnamese)
• Find all TFCF projects in GlobalGiving
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Binh is an 11-year-old student in 5^th grade in Vinh Long Province. His father passed away few years ago and he lives with his mother and younger sister. As a single mother, Binh’s mother is the only breadwinner in the family and has received TFCF assistance since 2016.

“I’m living in Vinh Long Province. We don’t have either clean water or toilet at home. We go outside directly into the river or pond because we only have the traditional fish pond toilet. I am thinking to have clean water in my school and drinking pure water is one of my wishes. I am so happy that my wish is coming true soon and thank you for your support to me and our classmates.”

- Message from Binh, TFCF assisted child in Vietnam

** Binh is the fake name due to the privacy and safety of individuals is respected.

Be well prepared

Although Vietnam has improved its water supply situation in the past few years, in terms of rural water and sanitation issues, Vietnam still has to face many challenges that require a lot of efforts to improve. There are many schoolchildren having the same wish as Binh’s, and I hope we have an opportunity to work together with you in the future.

Firstly, we will select two schools including primary and secondary schools in Vinh Long Province which have TFCF assisted children and may participate in our clean water project after reviewing their needs and school conditions with school teachers and staffs. To speed up the project, we have started our procurement process and finalized the list of qualified suppliers, we will move forward the preparation work soon and hope to bring clean and safe water to schoolchildren through establishing water purifier systems in schools.

Make the meaningful impact

We are honored that you join us and support our cause. In order to make the meaningful impact of your charitable donations, I would like to invite you to share your friends and family about our project - share the link on your blogs or social networks, use the tell-a-friend feature on the project page to email your network, or just bring us up in conversation. Let’s work with more people together to improve children a better environment and prevent from hygiene-related disease.

Thank you and wish you all the best.

With gratitude,

Wen Hung

Links:

• TFCF Vietnam FB (In Chinese & Vietnamese)
• Find all TFCF projects in GlobalGiving
• Subscribe TFCF e-paper