Who we are

We, SAH Company are working as a community to create a better life for poor children. We believe that every child deserves a future. In Vietnam, we give poor and orphaned children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn, and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children, every day and in times of crisis, transforming their lives and the future we share.

Our Work

Our mission is to advance the creation, communication and application of psychological knowledge to benefit society and improve people's lives. We do this by:

1. Encouraging the development and application of psychology in the broadest manner.
2. Promoting research in psychology, the improvement of research methods and conditions and the application of research findings.
3. Improving the qualifications and usefulness of psychologists by establishing high standards of ethics, conduct, education and achievement.
4. Increasing and disseminating psychological knowledge through meetings, professional contacts, reports, papers, discussions and publications

Background

Since 1998, Children of Vietnam has been serving the children in Vietnam whose futures are stifled by poverty: educating minds, mending bodies, sheltering families and nurturing their development Despite Vietnam vast economic improvements in the past two decades, studies by the Vietnamese Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, and UNICEF (2008) show that almost seven million Vietnamese children under the age of 16 still struggle due to poverty. Under healthy circumstances, a child is encouraged and pushed forward by the limitless force of endless possibilities that life offers a young person. The distance between the remote areas they live in and Vietnam developing urban areas will limit their access to opportunities and resources that are available to their peers who are learning and growing kilometers away. This lack of access leads to major disparity, and in unfortunate cases, even claims the lives of these innocent children.

Health

Poverty biggest threat is to the health of a poor child living in the north. UNICEF reports that poor children in Vietnam under the age of five are twice as likely to die before their fifth birthday, and a large portion of this has to do with access to a healthy diet. One in three boys & girls in Vietnam suffer from stunted growth due to malnutrition. For 40 percent of ethnic children living in rural areas, malnutrition is often an issue. Babies who are born in northern-rural regions battle with malnutrition, and complications relating to malnutrition, immediately after birth and throughout life.

Education

Poor access to a proper education is also a detrimental factor in a child ability to escape poverty. For ethnic minority children living in Northern remote regions and Western Highlands, the ability to receive an education comparable to the education Kinh children receive in urban areas remains difficult. According to findings in a 2009 World Bank study, connections can be made between the near 78 percent child poverty rate in North Western remote regions, and the region having the nation lowest net enrollment rates for all levels of education. Moreover, the most common reason Vietnamese youth drop out of school is because of the economic hardship various school fees take on the family as a whole.