In many rural areas of Vietnam, children are unable to attend school on a regular basis.  Lack of classroom facilities and class materials as well as a lack of funding for teachers salaries have put basic education beyond the reach of the children in these areas. 

Giao-Diem has actively assisted in the education of children in the poorest areas by funding the salaries of the teachers, by supplying educational materials to the schools, and by giving nutritional supplements to malnourished school children.  In the Phu Loc district in Hue, Giao-Diem has sponsered about 60 teachers and teachers aides and 54 Classrooms of Compassion (kindergarten through third grade).

As part of our Classrooms of Compassion activities, a Nutritional Supplement Pilot Project to improve the nutritional status of malnourished kindergarten children was launched in August, 2004.  This 12 month pilot project will target children in the Phu Loc district, and will utilize home made soy milk fortified with peanut oil produced locally by teachers.

How you can help:

• $20 pays one teachers salary for a month.
• $240 provides one teachers salary for a year.
• $7 pays for one child's monthly nutritional supplement.
• $200 provides the monthly nutritional supplement for an entire classroom of about 30 children.