New toilets arrive at Sung Sang's school
December 13 2022
Sung Sang Primary School - where 13 of the 68 students are SAD recipients - was built in 2009. At first there were two metal-roofed toilets but, unfortunately, after 13 years the toilets were no longer usable, causing great inconvenience for students and teachers, who found themselves without a place to go in safety. The local authorities had already planned…
National Civil Service 2022. Introducing ourselves!
December 13 2022
Hello everyone, let's introduce ourselves! We are Giulia and Angelica, two graduate students in International Studies, Development Cooperation curriculum, at the University of Trento. We are 22 years old and on 1 September we started our Civil Service journey with GTV and ACAV, realities in which, until the end of June 2023, we will do our best to make…
Friendship and Peace at Summer Camps 2022!
December 13 2022
No, it is not the title of a new novel, but the theme chosen for the 2022 summer camps. What is more beautiful and urgent these days, in fact, than talking about and really living Friendship and Peace? The summer tradition continues, and again this year we are happy to have managed to set up the summer camps for the…
Young people and children for the prevention of Covid-19
December 02 2022
In all schools where toilets and washbasins have been built for the "Prevention and response to the Covid-19 emergency" project, signs and illustrative panels have been posted with the rules of good hygiene and prevention from Covid-19. 1,700 illustrated booklets on hygiene rules and prevention from the spread of viruses, with content adapted for age groups, were also created and…
Personal hygiene is learned by playing
December 02 2022
The latest activities of the FIABA project - Training on Hygiene, Nutrition and Pupils Wellbeing have once again brought color and joy to schools. Although approaching the end of the school year, and, therefore, being engaged in various activities, the teachers and staff trained in the previous actions of the project have worked hard to carry out the hygiene awareness…
Vietnam, finally! Benedetta's mission
December 02 2022
My two years of work in GTV were marked by the difficulties and concerns related to the spread of Covid-19 both in Vietnam and in Italy and, as a consequence, also the suppression of all international trips and missions held by our association . For two years I have made a lot of skype calls, read many reports and got…
Updates from the Distance Support program (SAD)
December 02 2022
As in previous years, in these first months of 2022 we have dedicated a lot of energy and effort to supporting the 103 Vietnamese children supported at a distance. Last week we managed to complete the distribution of the first ration of rice for six months to all the families participating in the program and residing in the municipalities of…
Covid-19 in Xin Man
November 03 2022
In 2020, Vietnam reacted very efficiently and effectively to the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, imposing a harsh regime of lockdowns and blocks of international travel since the beginning of the year, thus keeping the number of infections and deaths under control. Unfortunately, the following year the country saw more important waves of Covid-19 and in these first months…
Hygiene at school thanks to FIABA
November 02 2022
The training of the FIABA project (Training on Hygiene, Nutrition and Pupils Wellbeing on the theme of correct hygiene practices) began in two of the five municipalities involved in the project, Che La and Nam Dan. By involving all teachers working in the schools of the five municipalities, these trainings aim not only to teach what good hygiene practices are,…
A new project to support women farmers
October 28 2022
At last, after some delays caused by major forces, the planned activities for the "Support for Women Farmers" project have begun, funded by Allitude and Comet Pelli.The first project activities consist of a training program for 60 women from Xin Man district who are already active in subsistence family farming with the goal of supporting their food production and consequently…