The Taste of Safety
Every morning, 10-year-old Cuong pedals his small bike down the village road, just five minutes from home to school. For him, each ride is filled with excitement—whether it’s solving math…
Every morning, 10-year-old Cuong pedals his small bike down the village road, just five minutes from home to school. For him, each ride is filled with excitement—whether it’s solving math…
When My Hanh was a little girl, she dreamed of becoming a teacher. At the time, it felt like nothing more than a dream. No one in her family had…
To the children of a small mountain village, a library is more than shelves of books—it is a bridge. One that carries them from the quiet Tây Giang mountains to…
For Xuan Minh, the dream of becoming a doctor felt less like a calling and more like a financial calculation her family couldn’t afford. Her father’s long battle with type…
“I’ll never forget our first visit to Tien Hiep Kindergarten’s Village 5 Campus. It was pouring, and rainwater leaked through the old tin roof, splashing onto the floor. The children…
On a sun-soaked morning in June 2025, COV staff and our local partners returned to Trieu An Elementary School. Just a few weeks earlier, in late May, a brand-new water…
In the mountains of A Luoi, in Hue Province, the school day at Hong Trung Kindergarten used to begin with a quiet worry: Would the children have enough to eat…
Le Van Hoa An’s world narrowed to a single, quiet house during a visit on Lunar New Year. He had returned home from school, but his grandmother was gone. She…
Imagine spending a day with Ms. Le Thi Do, a remarkable mother in Children of Vietnam’s Empowering Foundations for Women & Children (EFWC) program. Her story warms the heart, a…
In a small, crowded home in Vietnam, a young girl named Dao learned a difficult lesson early on: some dreams are too expensive. Her parents, aging and in poor health,…