She needs a sponsor to help her stay in school

'VT' needs a sponsor to keep her in school as her single mum is struggling to make ends meet. She used to collect garbage, but since grandmother had a stroke she needs to stay at home all the time to look after her. As she is responsible for her daughter, and for the care of her grandmother, it makes it hard to earn money. She opened up a little store at the front of her house so she could have some income, but now she has a debt of $1,500 she had to take out to stock it.

'VT' will be in grade 2 this year; she loves art and singing. Because she is still very young we can't really say how clever she is, but she loves school which is important.

Please contact us if you can commit to seeing her through school and wish to sponsor her: cef.vn.usa@gmail.com

She is an orphan and needs a sponsor for her education

'TT' is an orphan, but is lucky enough to have grandparents who can care for her and her two siblings, but they can't afford their education.

She is a bright girl and needs a committed sponsor. Her education sponsorship for this year, for grade 4 is $200.

If you wish to see her through school, please contact us: cef.vn.usa@gmail.com

Can you help educate a girl?

'TH' needs an educational sponsor to keep her in school. She lives in the mountains in central Vietnam. Her mother is the healthier of the parents, so she lives away from home and works as a 'housekeeper' for a family and has a low income. Dad has poor health, so dad stays home and looks after her and her siblings. He also does the farming during the farming season.

'TH' needs a committed sponsor to see her through her education. She is a bright girl and loves all subjects at school. She is going into grade 7 if she has support for her education. Her educational sponsorship is $250 for the year.

If you have friends or family who would like to sponsor please let us know as at present we have 10 girls who need a sponsor to keep them in school. One more girl in school makes a difference! cef.vn.usa@gmail.com

Educate a girl from Vietnam who needs a sponsor

We will call her 'H'; she lives in a mountainous area of Quang Nam in central Vietnam. She has no permanent home, no land, no farmland, and her single mother has a very low income.

She needs a long term committed sponsor for her education. She is a bright girl and even though she is a long way from graduating, she wishes to be a doctor. This year she goes into grade 6 and her sponsorship is $250 for this year. Please consider helping her and contact us: cef.vn.usa@gmail.com

The support of a new donor has allowed CEF to committ to the long term education of these girls

When CEF has donors who give regularly, it allows us to make a long term commitment to new unsponsored children. These three children now have CEF's long term commitment due to our new donor. What a gift their support is!

If you would like to be a regular donor, donations can be made using PayPal on the relevant website:
USA / Canada:
Website: www.cef-vietnam-usa.org
Email: info@cef-vietnam-usa.org cef.vn.usa@gmail.com

Australia / New Zealand:
Website:www.ChildrensEducationFoundation.org.au
Email: c.e.f.vietnam@gmail.com

For more information or to answer your questions please do get in touch.
Linda

CEF needs 4 long term sponsors to help these girls stay in school

We need you to take on a long term sponsorship to help a girl stay in school. These are 4 of the girls we need sponsors for. These 4 are from poor families in a mountainous area of Quang Nam province.

If you would like to take on a long term educational sponsorship of one of these girls please contact us:
Linda Burn
cef.vn.usa@gmail.com

1. Her sponsorship is $250 for this academic year (below)

2. Her sponsorship is $250 for this academic year (below)

3. Her sponsorship is $200 for this academic year (below)

4. Her sponsorship is also $200 for this academic year (below)

She has been accepted to study IT at university

We are thrilled to learn that one of our CEF girls from the northern province of Thai Binh has been accepted at a Hanoi university to study IT this year.

She is very fortunate to have a sponsor who has not just helped her complete school, but also is happy to put her through her IT studies. Her family have a large debt as her mother had cancer treatment for quite a long time; so without her generous sponsor she would not be able to attend university. She is thrilled of course that she will be able to have this opportunity, and her parents are very supportive of her receiving tertiary education.

This sweet CEF sponsored young man has been accepted into university to study to be a history teacher

CEF doesn't help many boys with their education as our work is to help girls receive an education, but when a boys situation is not good we consider helping.

P is one of the few males we agreed to help. His parents drowned when he was just a young lad and his grandparents took on bringing him up along with his two sisters. As granny and grandad were already very old, his older sister took on a lot of the family responsibilities and became a mother substitute for him and his little sister.  With CEF and her sponsors support she has now completed school and college, and is employed. She has already been promoted and had an increase in her income, and not only supports herself, but is able to financially help granny and granddad and her siblings a little. We are proud of her and what she has achieved.

Phuc has never done well in school and we didn't even think he would get into high school, but he scraped by. Last year, he become determined he would go to university and train to be a history teacher. He worked really hard through his last year of high school, but he didn't do very well, but he did a lot better, and he succeeded in passing high school. When he took the university entrance exams, to be honest, we did not expect him to pass, but he did!

We are very proud of him, of his incredible determination and his hard work! I am also very happy to say he has a sponsor to help him through university.

Family challenges have inspired this CEF student to work much harder and she aims to be a doctor now

Impoverished families have ongoing challenges in their situations, and unfortunately for the worse most of the time. One of  our CEF families had a big change recently. TU's sister gave birth to a lovely bouncy, baby son, but soon afterwards was deserted by her husband.

She then moved back home with the baby to live with her single mother and sister. Although she has a baby, no support from the father or his family, and is unemployed, she is positive and hopes to find work soon in a local factory. She was a very bright girl when we met her three years ago, and we offered to put her through college, as she was interested in being a nurse. She decided to choose marriage instead. Now it is a stark picture they all face, of  a 20 year old with no tertiary education, a failed marriage, a baby and no income.

At present it is a big financial challenge for an already poor family, but they have all surprised me with how positively they have responded to this situation. I think the family see quite starkly that there are greater choices when one has a college degree. The mother  is uneducated, has a disability and has a challenging life, but now she has become much more supportive of TU and her education. Her sister is very encouraging too. TU has blossomed and has become determined to be an excellent student; she has a drive that we have never seen in her before. Her goal now is to work harder and do better each term, and when she graduates she wants to apply to study medicine.

Although they have challenges to face together, it was a very heart-warming and inspiring visit to this CEF family.