Programs
These are the six programs where we focus all our work.
Childcare
Many parents have a difficult time finding work or have to make the difficult choice of bringing their young with them while they work in the fields under the hot, humid sun. Young children are taken care of at daycare centers where parents pay little or no fees. By providing funding to build and maintain childcare centers, Care2Share enables parents the ability to go to work. As to date, C2S has built over 12+ centers and continues to provide funding for these childcare centers, including 5 centers in the Pleiku surrounding villages to take care of ethnic children of K’mong, Sedang, Kutong, Lang O, and Lang Bo. C2S also pay for repairs and renovations at some of these centers.
SAFE CLEAN WATER
Clean drinking water is essential to have a healthy life. Many people who live in rural areas don’t have access to clean water for drinking and cooking. Care2Share installed filtered water systems in many areas in which people in surrounding villages come with their jugs of water to get clean water to take home for use. Each water filtration system can supply water for thousands of villagers. They come with their jugs and only pay a nominal fee to help with electricity cost. The filter water system consists of filtration system, storage tank, generator, dispensing station, and transport cart.
Medical Care
Access to medical care is a rare privilege for the poor in Vietnam, especially people in rural areas. By providing medicine for hard to get to areas, local nurses and caretakers can provide some medical care and vitamins to the sick, young and elderly. Since 2015, C2S has begun medical and dental mission to rural areas that are visited on the annual mission trip. With the healing touch of medical and dental professionals, these volunteers hope to bring physical and compassionate care to the sick and needy.
Education
Many of the poor living in rural areas are uneducated. In some rural villages of the indigenous, people do not even know how to read and write in their own language. Most are unemployed or low skilled, depending on hard labor for survival. Because going to school is not a requirement in Vietnam, many young people in rural areas do not have the privilege of attending school. C2S believes that education is the means to a better life for the next generation. By providing scholarships and learning centers to students to attain an education, they will have opportunities for a brighter future. These young people go on to vocational schools to learn skills for better jobs and some continue on to college to become teachers, nurses, doctors,businessmen and women, and other professions.
Livelihood Opportunities
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Care2Share believes in helping people help themselves. By giving people the means to earn a living, C2S hopes to enable people to continue lifelong sustainability. In areas of farming, C2S gives seeds and equipment to farm crops such as corn, rice, peppers, lychees etc. In other areas, C2S gives funding to help raise farm animals such as chickens and pigs. At some leprosy camps, C2S helps people initiate a crab farm.
Shelter
Many of the poor people in rural in Vietnam live in tiny homes with walls covered by woven sheets of straws, dirt floor, and tin roof. These poorly made homes leak during rainy weather and cannot withstand strong winds. C2S provides homes to carefully chosen families who are most in need of new homes. The new homes are modest in size and contain one room. Depending on the region, the homes are made of materials such as cement, metal sheets, and wood. The families are very happy and thankful to become recipients. With a new house, they have a small but warm, comfortable home to shelter from the elements.
Did you know?
More than half of all people who live in poverty are kids.