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.
A mother returned home with her baby
“Hien” grew up in a mountainous region in northern Vietnam. It’s a 7 hour motorbike ride from the nearest city to reach her house: a bamboo hut on stilts. The hut is basic. This is where Hien, her husband and their 2 children live. Life is unbelievably hard. Being...
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An interview with the Blue Dragon chief lawyer
Ta Ngoc Van is the chief lawyer at Blue Dragon. He leads a team to find, rescue, and represent trafficking victims who have been trapped in slavery. Since October 2018, the team has rescued and assisted 20 victims of a recently discovered form of trafficking: baby...
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A tearful reunion
17-year-old “Xuan” thought she would never see her mother again after spending nearly 5 years of her life enslaved in a forced marriage in China. As a teenager, Xuan ran away many times to escape from problems at home. One day she met a woman who promised her a...
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From a street kid to a Program Leader
Growing up working on the streets, Vi now works rescuing and supporting other children in crisis.
Blue Dragon’s Impact
runaways reunited with their families
trafficked people rescued
kids sent back to school & training
children & families now have legal papers
His own way
At 6am, Bi stumbles out of bed, washes his face, quickly gets dressed and rushes out of the Blue Dragon shelter on his way to the hospital. Bi first came to us last year, turning up in Hanoi lost and alone. He’s 16 now, and as he tells the story he came to the city to...
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There is always hope
In any given week, Blue Dragon receives calls for help from girls and women who may have been trafficked just a few days ago, or maybe have enslaved for several years. Last week, one of the more exceptional cases came to us as a matter of extreme urgency: A woman...
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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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Blue Dragon is a registered charity in Australia, the USA, the UK, and New Zealand.
