OUR PURPOSE
Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation provides exceptional care to Vietnamese children and families in crisis while creating long-term change for a better world.
OUR PURPOSE
Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation provides exceptional care to Vietnamese children and families in crisis while creating long-term change for a better world.
From one dragon to another: you too can achieve your dreams!
Tan grew up in Hue, a central province in Vietnam. When he was younger, his parents relied on catching fish and collecting firewood to make ends meet. The region is often hit by bad storms making it difficult to keep a consistent income. Tan’s family was poor, and as...
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Learning to be human again
“I felt like a robot. I was working like a machine. The only thing I knew was how to please the person in front of me. I didn’t know how to read, to write, to cook. Nothing.” “Nhu” grew up in an impoverished family. Both of her parents struggled with mental health...
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Ending exploitation
17-year-old “Nhu” grew up on a houseboat as her parents work as fishermen. Their income is irregular and small, so the family struggles to make ends meet. As the oldest child, Nhu feels responsible for helping her family. She wants to contribute so that they can be...
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A message from Vi
Vi used to live on the street and now he leads Blue Dragon’s work rescuing street children from crisis.
“… right now we’re running the Rescue Appeal so that we can raise enough money to rescue more kids who are living on the streets, and women and children who are trapped in slavery.”
Blue Dragon’s Impact
runaways reunited with their families
trafficked people rescued
kids sent back to school & training
children & families now have legal papers
The fight we have to have
With kids coming and going from the Blue Dragon centre every day, I try my best to get to know everyone so I can call them by name when I see them and make them feel at home. But there’s one group of young people who pass through the centre who I rarely get to know at...
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Rebuilding
Coming home from dinner on Sunday night, I had a message waiting for me from one of the Blue Dragon staff. He was on his way to meet a young man who had just come out of prison, a former Blue Dragon boy named ‘Hao’ who was caught up in the pedophile rings that ran...
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Caged
Long’s story reached us through a woman whose son we were already helping; a random conversation on no particular day, almost incidentally. “I wonder if you can do something for my neighbour,” she said. “Their son, Long, is quite naughty so they have locked him up in...
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Blue Dragon is a registered charity in Australia, the USA, the UK, and New Zealand.
