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  • Schools provided with safe drinking water
    156
    Schools provided with safe drinking water
  • Compassion Homes constructed
    574
    Compassion Homes constructed
  • Community water systems constructed
    250
    Community water systems constructed

Resilient Communities

Since 1988, East Meets West has been supporting the needs of rural and peri-urban communities in Vietnam and continues to support projects to build resilient communities, one family at a time, because we know small-scale programs can be incubators for larger impact programs of the future.

  • School Construction
  • WASH in Schools
  • Compassion Homes
  • Skills2Thrive
  • Piped Water Supply

School Construction

In Vietnam, children in rural or remote mountainous areas often study in old or even temporary structures with flimsy walls of bamboo or plastic sacks. The doors, windows and roofs do not keep out rain and wind – which means rural kids often don’t attend school at all during the monsoon season. Furthermore, these schools typically do not have sanitary latrines or a source of clean water. Through local partnerships, East Meets West has built 350 new primary and kindergarten schools since 2008, keeping thousands of kids in class, rain or shine. In the last ten years, East Meets West and Thrive Networks have replaced run-down, poorly constructed schools with new buildings that each participating community commits to operating and maintaining. This incentivized, sustainable approach ensures a secure and healthy learning environment for 100,000+ students and teachers across the country.

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