last update 10 Jan 2008

With your help, we would like to ensure that this child receives the same opportunity for a basic education as other children do "Flat" of a poor family in Binh Thanh

According of the Vietnamese code of law the women are equal with men, however, this is not the social reality in practice. Especially single women, widows and divorced women are often discriminated against and exposed to frequent humiliation.

These children were orphaned when their parents died of a relatively mild disease to which they succumbed because of their generally weak and exhausted physical state. Their grandparents who are boatpeople too, are struggling to raise them with insufficient resources

Most married women don’t have a profession and they are financially dependent from their husbands and have to take care of their household and family. Although child support after a divorce is written into Vietnamese law, it is often not realized in practice until the woman has reached desperate financial conditions. Under these social conditions there is never sufficient financial background to finance even a basic education for their children.