With their local partner, the Daughters of Mary the Immaculate, Enfants d'Asie has built a center to support children. A childcare facility in this center welcomes children of 5 to 12 years. Teachers at the center also assist with preparing meals and extracurricular activities: dance and choir studios, computer skills for all ages, and hygiene classes. The teachers also manage extracurricular events which serve to further engage children in physical and intellectual activities. A nursery was recently added to look after the newborns of provincial mothers who travel to Ho Chi Minh to work in local textile factories.

In the same time, our partner is in charge of 440 sponsorships of children and teenagers. Girls and boys coming from large families living in great poverty and who can't afford to send their children to school. These children are sent to school and have the possibility to start professionnal formations or universtity studies.

A french volunteer, Caroline Bidermann, in permanent contact with Paris, watches the development of our programs.

Individual sponsorships : Thu Duc, Ho Chi Minh's suburbs.

Enfants d'Asie, in partnership with the Congrégation des Filles de Marie Immaculée, supervises more than 400 sponsorships of children and teenagers living with thier family. Those families can't afford to send their children to school. Thanks to this program, the children have access to school et to professionnals trainings or university studies.

Group sponsorships : promoting women:

For 12 years now, Enfants d'Asie develops the Promoting Woman program in collaboration witht the Congrégation des Filles de la Charité de Saint Vincent de Paul. This schoolong program helps more than 600 young girls in the Mekong Delta. Girls' education in countryside areas is a priority. In these areas, only 50% of young girls have a high school education. They quite school very soon in order to do domestics tasks and help in the fields.

Construction and renovation of boarding schools

Enfants d'Asie has financed the construction of boarding schools and welcome centers in Can Tho, Thu Duc (Ho Chi Linh City), Dalat and Huê, managed by our local partners. The children, high school or university students living in these centers have the possibility to benefit from Enfants d'Asie's programs. 

Enfants d'Asie has financed the construction in Thu Duc of a day-care which welcomes 60 children and a nursery for new borns .

Functioning of the centers

Enfants d'Asie takes care of all the functioning fees of the Thu Duc center.

A key part of their humanitarian activities for the last 10 years in Vietnam, Enfants d'Asie, with its partner The Congregation of the Daughters of Charity, has developed a program called "Promoting Women". This program is targeted at 550 girls in the Mekong Delta. Women's education for girls living in rural zones remains a high priority for Enfants d'Asie.

Although public institutions in Vietnam are diligent when it comes to equal rights among the sexes, in the countryside, young girls still remain disadvantaged as opposed to boys. As a result, they often quit school young, with only 57% of girls continuing on to secondary school (junior high and high school), instead they are put to work on domestic tasks or work in the fields.

Teenage girls, having not finished their studies, nor having learned a trade, often leave their villages to work in neighboring towns where they become maids, barkeepers, waitresses, or dancers in strip bars...all professions which are trappings for a life of prostitution. Some then become vulnerable to international trafficking; our partners estimate that nearly 1000 young girls are "sold" for as little as $300 to $500 to rich Taiwanese, Koreans and Chinese families. These young girls live a life of hell where, as domestic slaves to their "new" family, they are then married to much older or handicapped men.