“I want to keep learning so I can look after my family”
The opportunity to access career counselling and training has allowed Niu to turn his life around completely, from fearing a future of marginalization due to his disability to becoming the breadwinner for his family.
The Blue Dragon Marathon Walk aims to raise funds to support 500 young people like Niu with education and training.
The other impact of COVID-19: human trafficking cases are on the rise
This year’s World Day Against Trafficking in Persons arrives at a particularly concerning time: the financial hardship created by the coronavirus pandemic has increased the vulnerability to trafficking of entire communities in Vietnam, and caused an upswing in the...
Walking to give youth a future
The 2020 Blue Dragon Marathon Walk will be a virtual event, so that anyone in the world can join. Here’s why the Walk is so important to the lives of young people in crisis. For 16-year-old Hien, the cooking course she is taking to become a chef is much more than just...
4,750 kilometres
4,750 kilometres. That was the distance separating Anh from her family for 5 long years. The teenager found herself sold into a forced ‘marriage’ on the other side of the Asian continent when she was just 14 years old. Held against her will and terrified, she feared...
Vietnam remains on State Department Watchlist for Human Trafficking
The US State Department’s annual Trafficking In Person’s (TIP) report makes an invaluable contribution to the otherwise limited body of knowledge of human trafficking in every country around the world. This 20th report, issued in late June, once again provides a...
The scars of spending half a lifetime in slavery
Huong has spent longer in slavery than she has been able to enjoy freedom. The 43-year-old mother of two was trafficked to China when she was 20 years old. With the support of Blue Dragon, she was finally able to return to Vietnam two weeks ago. Huong didn’t have an...
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Dragon Tales June 2020
In this issue: Meet Quy, a toddler who recovered from malnutrition in northern Vietnam, find out about the exciting summer of the Blue Dragon kids, and read about Phuong Phan, who walked 20,000 steps every single day for a month to raise funds for children in crisis.
