“Growing up with mountainous preschool students” - Fund-raising project to sponsor semi-boarding meals for poor children, raising “Vietnamese stature”

In the first call for funding, VSF aims to sponsor meals for all students at Khau Noong and Na O schools - in Thach Lam Commune, Bao Lam District, Cao Bang Province during the school year 2020-2021.

Khau Noong and Na O are 2 of 16 school sites of Thach Lam Kindergarten that haven’t had school lunch. Khau Noong and Na O are also among the most difficult hamlets of Thach Lam commune, 100% of households earn their living by farming and corn is their main diet. Because of difficult economic conditions and dissimilar intellectual abilities, the childcare capability of a number of parents are limited.

Going to school every day, the kids only bring with them a small bag of rice or ground corn, their lunches rarely have side dishes like vegetables or meat. Due to low nutrition amount in meals, a majority of preschool children here suffer from malnutrition, underweight and their rate of afternoon skip-out reaches up to 80%.

Children’s meager meals

According to a report at the start of school year 2019-2020 from Khau Noong and Na O school sites - Thach Lam Kindergarten, all 85 students from 3 to 5 years old who are attending these schools suffer from malnutrition, their height and weight indexes are below standards (according to the standard of height and weight by age from the National Nutrition Institute)

In this predicament, the initiation of a specific project that contributes to the enhancement of nutrition and health for preschool children in Khau Noong and Na O school sites is tremendously essential. The support of nutritious meals not only significantly contribute to the improvement of the health and stature of children - the future generations of the country, but also keep them in school, motivate them to insist on studying and succeed in life. Furthermore, this project model can be enlarged in other difficult mountainous hamlets, playing a role in reducing the malnutrition rate in children, and contribute to the implementation of the National Sustainable Development Goals.

The kids having fun activities after school

With a view to the success of this project, VSF call for and look for the participation of donors. You can:

• Sponsor a specific amount of money or grant sponsorship of midday meals within a school year for 1 or many kids

• Sponsor a specific amount of money to enhance the children’s studying conditions like: giving bookshelves, installing solar panels, constructing water reservoirs, building kitchens,…

The children’s information like: Personal information, academic progress, health and meal information will be updated to sponsors every quarter.

“Growing up with mountainous preschool students” - Fund-raising project to sponsor midday meal for poor children, raising “Vietnamese stature” - motivating children to progress in education

Sponsorship-receiving account information:

Name: QUY VI TAM VOC VIET

Account number: 003001060001222

Bank: Bac A Bank, Hanoi branch

Transfer detail: Full name_Phone number_CEKL

From the early stage, the project received a lot of support from individual donors. As of May 31, 2020, the project has raised VND 38.700.000, equivalent to sponsoring 22 children in the school year 2020-2021. In this project, VSF will cover all Human resources, administration and assessment costs. The goal of the project is to sponsor meals for all 85 kindergarten kids, we aim that the fundraising amount will have reached VND 160.000.000 by July 15, 2020, including sponsorship expenses for the remaining 63 children and improvement of learning facilities.

As a reputable unit with a long history of working in the field of health care, nutrition improvement, which contributes to the physical and mental development of Vietnamese children, For Vietnamese Stature Foundation (VSF) guaranteed to implement this program transparently and effectively with  the resources mobilized from the community.