The accessibility of education, especially in rural areas is limited. In the community. Most of the rural population depends on agriculture with a low level of technicality and productivity. Income is therefore unstable, and too often children at a very young age need to support financially the family income.
Education and training are currently ineffective and unable to meet demands. Youth has the potential both in numbers and quality to take up a significant role in the national development process.
Youth and education have been demonstrated to be the best investment in terms of results.
When schooling is available for children, they can make a difference for themselves, their families, and their communities.
Vietnam’s constitution pledges, “Primary education is compulsory and tuition-free.” But other costs, such as for textbooks and uniforms, keep financially challenged children out. The cost is higher in secondary school and beyond, where institutions can and nearly always do charge tuition.
When a child at the age of 6 should enrol to school, if they cannot afford the cost, or quite often they don’t have birth certificate and/or ID, for several reasons, they won’t start their education journey and they will typically stay at home, until they are ‘old enough’ to start working. Therefore, you see children as young as 7 or 8 selling scratch cards or other items in the streets, and when they reach the age of 12 or 13 they start to work in factories, etc. in very bad working conditions.
With our onboarding school programme, we ensure that children can attend school, often we help families to get their birth certificate and ID. We than support them as far as they can go with studies or we support them with vocational trainings so they can have the right skills to find a proper job when they are grown up.