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Moon Festival celebrations at Hold the Future
Posted by: | CommentsMoon Festival traditional stars.The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival although a tradition celebrated by the Chinese is also loved in Vietnam. It dates back over 3 000 years to the moon worship in China’s Shang Dynasty. It is celebrated on the 15th day of the eight month in the Chinese calendar, which is in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. Is is a date... Read more→
Japan meets Vietnam at Hold the Future, Centre for disabled youth
Posted by: | CommentsJapanese students visit Hold the Future, Centre for disabled youth Hold the Future, a Centre offering disabled youth a chance in life, recently was graced with a visit from three very enterprising budding young economists from Japan. These lovely Japanese students were on a fact finding mission. Attending the Faculty of Economics at Chuo University they were collecting data and impressions for their... Read more→
Sign language lessons at Hold the Future
Posted by: | CommentsStudents at Hold the Future learning sign language The first step to poverty alleviation is surely education and training. Education will cover your knowledge that you need to survive in the world such as reading, writing and numeracy. Training will provide you with skills with which to earn a living. Hold the Future’s Director Mrs Hiền is truly aware of this and her efforts in making sure... Read more→
A week filled with interesting visitors at Hold the Future a Centre for disabled youth
Posted by: | CommentsA visit by the DPO of Hoài Đức A friendly visit by a neighbouring saw the chairman Ngūyền Hồng Hà pop in for a chat. Unofficial, but still welcome. For the VSO volunteer an added bonus was that his English was excellent . Hà chatted about his work as an English teacher and his contribution towards the well-being of disabled people. He is disabled himself being physically disabled. However,... Read more→
Wikipedia entry for Hold the Future
Posted by: | CommentsHold the Future has set up it’s own Wikipedia page. Here’s the link to it. New content and participation is welcome. It’s easy to set up an account on Wikipedia so please do if you would like to help the Centre build a great page. This Wikipedia page is important to the Centre at the moment. Until the blog receives a PageRank rating from Google it is a matter of luck and recent posting... Read more→
The human spirit overcomes all
Posted by: | CommentsAt a recent meeting in Hanoi discussing the BUILD project funded by Irish Aid this thought went through my mind. Quick bit of background about the project, BUILD is being developed by IDEA and VSO. It’s main focus is to provide skills training and mentoring to enable disabled people find employment. It also aims to provide capacity building to Disabled People Organisations. It was an interesting... Read more→
