SOS Children's Villages - SOS Children in Vietnam
SOS Children's Villages works in 136 countries and territories around the world.
We have a long history of helping children in Vietnam. Declining infant mortality and improving living standards hides the grim reality of hardship and malnutrition. Since 1967, we have given children a loving family with which to grow up, as well as the start in life they need to escape a future of hunger and poverty.
With SOS Children, you can help orphaned and abandoned children in Vietnam by sponsoring a child.
SOS Children provides children with a home, a family and a new mother in a purpose-built SOS Children's Village, where they can stay until they are ready for independent life. Our work in Vietnam began in 1967 when the first Village was established near Ho-Chi-Minh City (formerly Saigon). Fifty pre-fabricated houses provided a home for more than 500 orphans and war damaged children.
A second Village was opened at Da Lat in 1974, but both were taken over by the new government in 1976. Then in the late 1980s, after many years of negotiation with the government, they were returned to SOS Children's Villages.