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Project Update: Vocational Training in Vietnam Round 2, Part 2

Monday, February 4th, 2013
Studying boys need food to fill their bellies to keep them going!

Studying boys need food to fill their bellies to keep them going!

Here’s the second roundup of photos from the second cycle of motorbike vocational training in Vietnam. Check out the first one here.

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Project Update: Vocational Training in Vietnam Round 2, Part 1

Thursday, January 31st, 2013

Remember our re-launch of the vocational training in Vietnam program last year? In that first cycle, we gave 30 youth a chance to re-new their lives by participating in a 3.5 month training program to become skilled motorbike mechanics. 26 ended up graduating from the program. Following its success, we decided to continue the program with a new group of 30 youth. We are pleased to announce that all 30 participants graduated this time. Our project coordinators in Vietnam sent us printed photos of the second cycle, and we’ve scanned them to share with you!

Black Hat

Students get their hands-on in their learning.

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VNHELP Scholarships Give Students in Vietnam a Shot at Success

Wednesday, January 30th, 2013

Earlier this month, VNHELP’s Nguyen Truong To Scholarship program distributed a number of scholarships to students in Vietnam attending universities around the Saigon metropolis. It was an occasion marked by a bit of pomp and circumstance, a bit of silliness, and a whole lot of optimism for the future. We looking forward to seeing how the scholarships will help these students achieve their goal of completing university, and we have faith in the success that is sure to follow many of them.

Check out some pictures of the students in Vietnam and the scholarship ceremony below!

Scholarship 2013

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The Weekly Round Up, Week of August 13

Monday, August 20th, 2012

We’ve aggregated together this past week’s notable news for the weekly round up, and there’s certainly a lot to catch up on. Check it out below.

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Education Brief: Why Build A School in Vietnam?

Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

Building schools where needed

According to United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Vietnam has made major progress in education in recent years. Official figures estimate that enrollment rates in primary education have reached near universal levels, such that more children are receiving an education now than ever before.

But in our view, any one child out of school is still one child too many.

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