Gender Equality Vietnam Project #13980

100 Bikes for 100 Girls

by Rock-Paper-Scissors Children's Fund

Project Report | Jan 11, 2023
Two Girls and Their New Bikes

By Sara | Co-Founder

My and her mom

Happy New Year Everyone,

First, thank you very much to all of you, we could not provide so many girls in Vietnam with bicycles without your constant and continued support each year. In 2022, your donations directly went to buying bicycles, helmets, and bike pumps for 520 girls! So many girls and so many bicycles. Thank you everyone! Here is a quick look at two lovely girls who received bikes this year.

Meet My. She is pictured here with her mother at their home. My was so thrilled to receive a bike so that she could proudly ride it to school! She is nine years old and in the third grade. My has never had a father present in her life, and doesn’t know him, but she is being raised by her very loving mother, Lien. Lien earns a living by doing odd jobs, which often isn’t very steady, and as you can see they live in a very small, old house. My’s favorite subject in school is Math and she is dreaming about becoming a teacher one day. Thank you for giving her a bicycle, a gift that means a great deal to her and her mom.

Meet Vy. Vy is pictured here with her father who does odd jobs for a living. Vy’s mother, who is 25 years old, works as a factory worker, so Vy’s dad is her, and her five-year-old brother’s main caretaker on most days because of the long hours that her mom works. We are getting to know Vy well because she joined our new art class in her village in August. Our art teacher loves Vy and says that Vy tells her that art is her favorite subject in school. In our classes, she is so excited to take part and she has appointed herself the student monitor of the class! As you can see, she is talented and very creative. She is a very hard-working little student, and we thank you all for giving her a bicycle this year!

Thank you for supporting so many girls like My and Vy this past year, and happy 2023!

Sara and the Rock-Paper-Scissors Crew

PS: Of course, if any of you ever travel to Vietnam, and are in the area that we work in, please contact us, and let us know you would like to attend a bike giving ceremony and meet the girls who you have donated to!

Vy and her dad

Vy and her new bike

Vy in our art class

Vy with her artwork

More girls receiving their bikes

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Sep 13, 2022
Bikes for Girls Vietnam Update!

By Sara | Co-Founder

May 16, 2022
Bicycles, Tutoring, Art Classes, and Story Books

By Sara | co-Founder

Hello Friends,

This is a quick update to all you very supportive, Bikes for Girls donors. We want to thank you for continuing to support Rock-Paper-Scissors Children’s Fund so that we can continue to provide girls living in rural Vietnam with the tools that they need to not only be able to stay in school, but to have the desire to stay in school! Again, a shining light for our girls in Vietnam has been your ongoing support. Over the last four months 80 girls have received bicycles and helmets, and through our bike repair program, 56 girls have had their bikes repaired and tuned up!

We wanted to also share with you about our expanded programs for girls that we started to pilot in 2019 before the pandemic closed all the schools. At that time, we piloted a summer tutoring program for girls in 6^th-9^th grade. This had a very successful start until the pandemic forced us to close the program. This winter though, through another small grant from an organization in Canada we have been able to start our tutoring program back up on the weekends when the girls are home from the boarding school that they attend, this will expand into a daily program during the summer months. This program takes place within one of the ethnic minority communities that we work in. At the same time, we also started an after-school art program for primary school girls in the village, for ages 7-11 as well as a story time program for their younger siblings who are too young to attend the art class, but come along with their sisters because their older sisters are usually their caregivers while their parents work. So far, we have run these programs throughout the month of April with great success. We have recruited high school and college-age student volunteers from outside the community to be mentors and readers to help us run the programs and to connect and support the girls. So far so good! All students and mentors are very much loving the tutoring program and both the story time and art classes.

As the founders of Rock-Paper-Scissors Children’s Fund, my two daughters, Sophie, and Phoebe, and myself are usually heading to Vietnam with a group of volunteer bike lovers, bike mechanics, artists and musicians during the summer, but we have not been able to do this since the start of Covid. I am hoping to make the trip in July, with a few volunteers, so hopefully the next time I send you all an update, it is from Vietnam directly!

Happy rest of the spring! Thank you again everyone for your amazing support of our small organization, it means a great deal to all of us.

Sara and the Rock-Paper-Scissor’s Team

Bike Repair

Tutoring Program

Art class

Art Class

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