Aid to Vietnam - Project 026

New Homes for Special Deserving Cases

This project is for those in special situations such as medical or physical need. Over the last 12 years or so, more than 60 houses have been built for older people or those with a physical disability.

Grants of up to £2,500 – £3,000 are given and this encourages relatives of beneficiaries to assist building houses of varying quality and size. Of course, the prices of materials have increased over the years since our building of the houses known at that time as ‘Houses of Compassion’ started when a one or two bed-roomed house could be completed for £500! Many people in the countryside still live in bamboo shacks which are vulnerable to typhoons, very heavy rainstorms and subsequent floods.

Referrals are made via local communes or ‘Tin Lanh’ (Good News) churches to ‘The DANANG ASSOCIATION FOR CHARITY AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN'S RIGHTS’ and ‘The QUANG NAM PROVINCIAL SPONSORING ASSOCIATION FOR THE DISABLED, CHILDREN'S RIGHTS AND POOR PATIENTS’ in Central Vietnam. The referrals when approved by them are passed to our Vietnamese local representative Mrs Nguyen Phan Lien Ha who visits the families for a final assessment. Sometimes the referrals are refused because our financial resources are very limited even though there is often a great need and the referrals are appropriate. When the houses are completed, Mrs Ha Nguyen visits again to ensure that the grants have been managed correctly.

To contribute to this ‘special housing project’, please designate your donation to project: 026. Gifts of any value are very welcome and when we have accumulated a total of £2,500 - £3,000, we will organise a new home for a deserving and vulnerable family in desperate need.

Thank you once again for your compassionate love and concern for the poor and underprivileged folk in Central Vietnam.

Above, we see workers laying the foundations of a new home

The above picture is of an almost complete new home.