Our commitment in Vietnam is to bring education to the most vulnerable settings, ensuring educational opportunities for all.

In the most rural parts of the country, long-marginalized minority groups face challenges in accessing national schooling and are frequently excluded from educational opportunities. In our classrooms, however, we open doors for everyone. By ensuring access to education for these children and youth, our schools not only help reduce their levels of isolation and vulnerability, but foster a model of peaceful coexistence that can become an engine of change for the local community.

In particular, two of our schools host numerous students from the minority group called Montagnard, living in very closed communities in rural and mountainous areas. Because not all children are able to go to school on a daily basis, the De La Salle Brothers, together with the Sisters of Mary of the Miraculous Medal have opened some classes within their villages, enabling 66 students to receive a basic education and then include them in the two schools.

TRUONG VINH KY SCHOOL A PLEIKU

Located in Vietnam’s Central Highlands, in Pleiku District, this institute was the first to open after nationalization and now has nearly 700 students (including a hundred from minority groups) between primary and junior secondary school.

Thanks to the presence of a dormitory, more than half of the alumni can spend the week on campus without having to make long daily trips. In order to continue to accompany our students on their journey, we wish to open the high school soon as well, so as to provide our pupils with the entire education cycle.

TRUONG VINH KY JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL A DAK MIL

Truong Vinh Ky Junior Secondary School, is a junior secondary school (grades 6-12), opened in August 2018. The school is situated in the Dak Mil district, a rural area with limited educational facilities. This led children to travel long distances daily, contributing to a high dropout rate. Because of its dormitory, the school allows students from nearby villages to live on campus, increasing school attendance of its already 500 students (57 from minority groups). In order to enable our pupils to complete their education and access tertiary education, we want to build a secondary school (high school) here as well.

LA SAN TAN HUNG CHARITY SCHOOL IN HO CHI MIN CITY

Located in a slum in Ho Chi Min City, the Vietnamese capital, this school has been providing free education to children, from the most vulnerable segments of the population for 21 years. The families of these students come from various depressed areas of the country and live on temporary and precarious jobs. Because they do not have a recognized residence, their children are not accepted into government schools. The Brothers saw these children on the streets, selling lottery tickets or rummaging through trash, and decided to establish a school for them. Today, each of the school’s 130 alumni is covered by a full scholarship.

NON-FORMAL EDUCATION CENTERS

Dalat Educational and Vocational CenterThere is a nonformal education center in the city of Dalat that caters to 156 young people in the area with vocational training. In fact, this center offers a sewing program, with an emphasis on silk crafting, as well as a greenhouse agriculture program with modern potted micro-growing techniques and drip irrigation.

Nguyen Khuyen Center for Disabilities: is a vocational training center, aimed at 10 people with motor and/or cognitive disabilities.