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It has been 6 years since Tuyet Nghi and her sister and brother had hamburgers, which used to be their favorite treat. The last time they went to buy burgers was on an afternoon in February 2017. When they returned home, their mother was already lying cold on the bed.
Nghi, also known as Xu, 18, has a very hazy memory of her mother's illness. She only recalls lumps growing on her mother’s body out of the blue and when they got to the hospital, the cancer was said to have been terminal. She was discharged after less than a month of treatment, before passing away two days before Tet, Vietnam…
The UN Child Rights Committee (CRC) today issued its findings on Germany, Kuwait, North Macedonia, the Philippines, South Sudan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Viet Nam after reviewing the eight States parties during its latest session.
The findings contain the Committee's main concerns and recommendations on the implementation of the Child Rights Convention as well as positive aspects.
"Child representatives and care leavers from South East Asia have called for increased support for continuing education, psychosocial care, finding jobs and affordable housing in the wake of COVID-19," according to this news article from SOS Children's Villages. Their recommendations were discussed with Asian government and civil society representatives in an online forum entitled COVID-19 Response towards the Alternative Care of Children in South East Asia, held on 28 July 2020. The forum, organized by SOS Children's Villages in association with the South East Asian member…
This article from BBC News tells the story of Nguyen Quoc Tuy, born in Vietnam around 1970 and adopted by a family in the US at about three years old, and his journey to reconnect with his birth family as an adult. Tuy was placed in an orphanage at seven days old and developed polio at a very early age, leaving him with a disability.
He traveled back to Vietnam with his adoptive mother as part of the 1991 "peace marches" and began to explore Vietnamese culture, returning again in 1993 and eventually meeting his birth mother. He also learned that his father was Filipino and…
In this article from the Guardian, Do Duy Vi, a former street child himself, shares how he he seeks out vulnerable young people in Vietnam’s capital in the hopes of offering them shelter and a new beginning.
Friends International, a member of the Steering Group of the Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative, established the ChildSafe Movement in 2005 to advocate for better child protection policies and practices, particularly in relation to travel and tourism. According to the article, the ChildSafe Movement has now “revamped” its company certification, which recognizes tourism companies for their dedication to child protection and commitment to ChildSafe’s 7 Standards by granting them a “ChildSafe Certification.” EXO Travel in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar has become the…
This article, from NBC News, speaks to the experiences of those who were adopted from Vietnam to the United States, specifically Jared Rehberg and Kali Hauck. Rehberg was adopted in 1975 during “Operation Babylift” which sent thousands of Vietnamese childrens from their war-torn home to adoptive parents in Europe, Australia, and the United States. Rehberg recalls the journey from Saigon to the United States and the lack of documentation - stating that his name and the names of the other 218 children on the plane had been made up in order to get them out of the country.
The operation had…
Officials in Hanoi have recently investigated a philanthropic institution, Bo De Pagoda, which housed children and older adults and have found that the institution “suffered loose management and offered substandard healthcare” in addition to allegations of child trafficking, says Ha An of Than Nien News. The officials have, therefore, begun transporting some of the children and elderly adults from the pagoda to a state-run facility, the Thuy An Center for the Elderly and Disabled Children in Ba Vi District.
Until recently, the pagoda had been known as a shelter for children who had been…
Illuminating many of the observations and conclusions from the UNICEF State of the World’s Children report on children with disabilities, the New Straits Times has published an article on the state of children with disabilities in Vietnam. According to the article, Vietnam has some of the highest rates of child disability in the world, which it attributes to the nation’s legacy of decades of war and particularly to the country’s exposure to the defoliant “Agent Orange” used in warfare. The article states that up to three million Vietnamese people were exposed to dioxin in Agent…