Trung Chanh is one of seven villages in the mountainous region of Nui Thanh District of Quang Nam Province, Vietnam. In September 2009, the area was deeply impacted by Typhoon Ketsana with the loss of life, housing, crop, fruit trees, and shrimp ponds. The poor farming families in Trung Chanh are still working to recover and struggle to make ends meet. In total, there are 286 kindergarten children in the region but only 165 children can attend school. The other 121 have to stay at home, because there is not enough classroom space in the region.

This Trung Chanh Kindergarten Construction project will give approximately 40 young children the best start possible now and for years to come by providing a kindergarten facility that is appropriately designed, well lit, comfortable, and secure. Kindergartens serve a fundamental need for young children, giving them a head start in obtaining a solid education, good social skills, and bright future. Children who are unable to attend kindergarten are at a significant learning disadvantage. Support this project and partner with the families of Trung Chanh to ensure that young children can gain the healthy intellectual development they need to succeed in their future.

Almost all of the 1,044 residents of the Trung Chanh Village are poor farmers who earn less than $2 per day. Their homes are small and typically without indoor toilets. Access to health services is limited and transportation is by foot, bicycle, or motorbike on paths or narrow concrete roads. Any of the village’s families could plummet further into poverty due to illness, limited water resources, and typhoon crop and house damage as was the case with Typhoon Ketsana in 2009.

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Direct Impact of Your Project

• Provides 40 young children with a comfortable, safe, and specially designed space where they can develop physically, socially, and academically
• Enables 40 students to have the resources that will brighten the start of their school careers
• Ensures at least one teacher has full time employment

Forty young children will have the best start possible now and for years to come by preparing them to successfully enter primary school. Additionally, this project will create permanent employment for one full-time teacher and temporary job opportunities for one engineer and approximately 10 local laborers and masons.

Extended Impact on Your Partner Community

The estimated number of indirect beneficiaries is 120 per year, which includes two parents and one sibling of up to 40 children attending the kindergarten.

In addition to the direct impact of educating 40 children, this project will:
• Allow the parents of preschool children to work full-time and earn the income needed to sustain and improve their families' lives; and
• Ensure older siblings of the kindergarten children can continue to attend school rather than needed to stay home to care for their younger brothers and sisters who cannot attend kindergarten.