Our Wishlist
All the following items are needed at Blue Dragon’s centres and shelters. Many of these are cheaper and easier to buy locally in Hanoi, and there is no excess baggage charge! If you need assistance to buy items in Hanoi, we are more than happy to arrange someone to help you shop. Please email welcome@bdcf.org to organise a shopping trip.
For school and training:
- Tablets (iPad or Android) / laptops /desktop computers
- Bicycles to shorten the journey to school
- Stationery: pens, pencils, new notebooks, color pencils, crayons
- School bags
- Solar powered flashlights
- Table lights (desk lamps)
- Watches with alarm
- Folding tables for students living in boarding schools
- Mosquito nets
- Plastic washing basins
- Headphones and unlocked mobile phones
- Cameras and chargers in good working order
- Bicycles, electric bikes, and second-hand motorbikes in good condition
Hard to find items:
- Adult coloring books
- Colorful origami paper
- DIY Wear I Heart Charm Bracelets
- Shimmer and Shine Sparkle Mosaics
- Jewelry making kits
- Good quality skateboards
- T-shirt paints, T-shirt tye dyes
- New make-up sets (not used)
- Juggling balls, Juggling clubs
- Diablo (bearing-type) with strings and sticks
- Blender
For various activities:
- Lego (including the boxes as we need the instructions!)
- Art and craft items (scissors, glue sticks, pens, color markers, colored paper, beads, feathers, etc)
- Saboteur card game
- Basketballs and pumps
- Badminton sets (racket and shuttlecock)
- Baseball
- Table tennis sets
- Velcro Paddle ball game
- Vietnamese comic books, story books with an educational theme for children from 6-12 years old or self-development books
- Soft toys such as teddy bears and dolls
- For the Blue Dragon United Football Club: soccer balls size 5; used or new soccer boots; shin pads/guards, new long socks and goalkeeper gloves – all to fit teenagers 11-18 years old. Soccer bags and badges of international football clubs
- Musical instruments: guitars, spare guitar strings and ukulele strings, piano keyboard
Personal items:
- New cleansing products: hand sanitisers, face cleaners or foams and shower gel
- Deodorant for teenagers in training or jobs
- New bath towels and face cloths
- New and used winter clothes suitable for children and teenagers (in good condition)
- Pillows, quilts
- Lip balms
- We are unable to accept prescription or non-prescription medicines
Please let us know if there are any items not on this list that you have and feel would be suitable to donate. For any enquiries, please contact us via the form below.
How do I donate products to Blue Dragon?
We request that gifts in-kind are brought to us rather than shipped in as customs fees are costly for us and negate the generosity of our donors.
We are also happy to arrange to go shopping with you next time you are in Hanoi or alternatively we can shop for you and send you the receipt with a photograph of your donated items.
Please fill the form below and we can provide you with further details.
Blue Dragon is a registered charity in Australia, the USA, the UK, and New Zealand.
