Children’s Hope in Action (CHIA)

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Children’s Hope in Action (CHIA) is a grassroots non government organisation founded by an Australian woman, Robyn Morley, to especially care for some of the most disadvantaged children in Quang Nam province, central Vietnam. CHIA believes passionately that it is the right of every child to be raised within a nurturing familial environment and have access to essential services which are often taken for granted by people living in developed communities. CHIA works with children whose life opportunities may be limited due to poor health, disability and lack of access to education. Tailored assistance plans, or Care Packages, are developed for children on a needs basis to provide the best possible outcome.

Support can range from facilitating medical and surgical intervention, to providing a bicycle to enable a child to stay in school. This holistic approach recognises access to quality health, disability and education services are vital for long term family and community development and should be the right of every child, regardless of family income. Whether it be taking a child to Ho Chi Minh City for heart surgery, providing on-going physiotherapy sessions for children affected by Cerebral Palsy, or providing sponsorships to allow children from very poor families to obtain a complete primary and secondary education, CHIA is determined to ensure these children have a future.

Their programs currently focus on three key areas: health, disability and education services.

CHIA's projects include:

• Provision of initial health assessments through in-house and rural community clinic services
• Facilitation and funding of necessary treatments including surgery (eg cardiac), provision of medicines and nutritional supplements
• After care services (following treatment)
• Allied health services, especially regular physiotherapy sessions & equipment provision for children with disabilities
• Education sponsorships for children from very low income families
• Residential care for 30 high-school aged children from poor rural families, to allow them to continue with their education
• Building brick and concrete houses to replace bamboo and palm-leaf huts for very poor families with children
• Build/renovate toilet blocks in remote schools

 

Please see their website for more information www.childrenshopeinaction.org