Last week LCMS World Mission personnel, along with our partners at the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), drove down that familiar “highway” 32 once again, passing through the milk stalls of Ba Vi and the secret military buildings of Son Tay and into the place we think of as our second home–Phu Tho province. How [...]
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
I recently traveled to the Tuy Loc commune in Phu Tho province to see the final Nutrition Contest. As part of the Caring for Kids project, we have been training the teachers at a number of schools in this area basic nutrition so that they could have nutrition class for all the students. Then all [...]
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
This past week we traveled again to Phuong Vy commune in Phu Tho province, Vietnam. The main purpose of the trip was to guide some visitors to see a variety of our project sites. Along the way, we stopped at the elementary school in Phuong Vy, the very same one we visited last time. That time [...]
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Also on this week’s visit to Phuong Vy, we were very pleased to see fabulous progress on the library portion of our Caring for Kids project. This is a program to help alleviate costs associated with school materials. Traditionally parents pay for brand new books, and even though the books costs not much money, it can [...]
Thursday, August 18, 2011
This week we once again made the bumpy drive from Hanoi to Phu Tho. Our purpose was simply to check up on our current project, Caring for Kids, in two communes. I was privileged to travel with one of our project coordinators, Chi Van Le. Firstly, we travelled to Phuong Vy commune, where we have bathroom [...]
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Our Caring for Kids project is in full swing now, with initial nutrition training carried out for leaders of nine different communes. We are currently in preparations to hold nutrition contests among the students of that school sometime in October. However, another piece of the project is support for supplemental food in these schools, in [...]
Friday, May 6, 2011
This month documents were signed to kick off construction projects in Phu Tho province as a part of our Caring for Kids project. Several commune schools will receive a new kitchen facility and/or a new bathroom facility. The communes who will receive these new facilities were required to create detailed building plans that were approved [...]
Friday, December 24, 2010
On December 21, 2010, we conducted the initial nutrition training for our Caring for Kids Project. Leaders from nine different communes were invited to attend, including commune presidents, health station heads, and school principals. The training lasted one day, and went over the basics of childhood nutrition. The sessions were taught by Dr. Tu Ngu, [...]
Monday, October 18, 2010
This week marks the beginning of our Caring for Kids project which we have been planning for some time. We are thrilled to get this project underway, as we believe there is a great need to be met in Phu Tho province. LCMS World Mission (LCMS WM) has been working in Phu Tho for 15 [...]
Monday, October 18, 2010
These are the details of what we will actually do for the Caring for Kids project: Project Component Description 1. Nutrition Contest Choose 9 primary schools in Cam Khe district to involve in this project. Teachers at those schools will be trained in basic nutrition and about 8 nutrition related activities at the household level. [...]
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