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Children First

last updated Oct 27, 2011

Overview

Implementing organization: 
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in Viet Nam
Implementation Partner(s): 
Provincial Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (DOLISA)
Legal Status: 
Public-private partnership
Year Launched: 
2009
Stage: 
Short-term project
Income Level of Target Population: 
Bottom 20%, 20-60% (lower to lower-middle)

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Donor
Additional Source(s) of Funding: 
In-kind contributions
Funders: 
Gerald & Henrietta Rauenhorst Foundation

Scale

Number of Clients Served: 
462
Summary: 

Children First targets an estimated 560 Children in Jeopardy (CiJ) in Vietnam, from birth to 18 years of age, with a special focus on early childhood development (ECD) for children under six, in order to improve their lives.

Program goals/rationale: 

The eventual goal of Children First it to improve the lives of children in jeopardy. The three-year project has two strategic objectives that contribute to the longer-term goal:

  1. Children in jeopardy remain in community-based care.
  2. Local government and Church service providers have improved capacity to provide care and support for children in jeopardy and their caregivers.
Key program components: 

CiJ come from both urban and rural populations and include those most in need such as the homeless, stigmatized, disabled, abandoned and those affected by HIV. The project will identify CiJ through Family Information Centers and community outreach activities, and provide direct services and/or referral to Church and government providers for education, health care, food, psycho-social support, and livelihood assistance to the children and their families/caregivers. This will be done through coordination of the main service providers in two targeted locations using an integrated, high quality, community-based service delivery model.

The project is implementing in two coastal-midland districts that have a large number of identified CiJ. In November 2009, a baseline survey was implemented in 10 communes located in two project distrcits. In total, the surveyors conducted interviews with 502 families and identified 462 children who met Children First’s criteria to become project beneficiaries.

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