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DRAGON TALES
Reaching out to street kids
An update on the work of Blue Dragon Childrens Foundation
Vietnam June 2011
Outreach Appeal: Help kidswith no one else to turn to...Evey week, Bue Daon povides a hepin hand to
an aveae of 7 new chiden aed 10 to 16. In Maywe aunched an excitin Appeal, ookin to double the
numbe of kids we each and to expand the ane of
sevices we can offe them.
With moe funds, we wi empoy two moe Outeach
Wokes and buy a second hand ca. With exta staff
on the ound, we wi be abe to access kids we
coudnt each befoe. The ca wi be used to eunite
kids with thei famiies in the countyside and to
suppot them thouh foow-up visits.
Weve aeady aised a ot, but weve sti ot someway to o. We ae askin a ou fiends to keep the
suppot comin.So fa weve eceived 43,436 AUD in
donations, but we need an additiona 23,564 AUD to
each ou oa of67,000 AUD.
To ead moe about how you can hep cick hee
ead more about our Outreach work on page 3
With a knack fo Enish, he aced his exams.
In fact, hes done so we that in 2010, aon
with two othe Bue Daones, Son and
Chinh, he was offeed a six month schoa-
ship at New Zeaands Nationa Technooy
Institute, studyin Enish and hospitaity.
Just back fom NZ, he says his expeience
thee was ife-chanin. Ask him if he wants
to keep studyin, he says: Sue do!
Khanh, centre and inset, with Son and Chinh outside Blue Dragon beore they
went to Auckland on a National Technology Institute scholarship.
hanh: From povertyo top scholarhanhs stoy is a too common in Vietnam.
on into povety, Khanh ived with his sistes
nd mothe, who soed away to suppot
e famiy. Thins wee aeady touh, but ife
ecame even more difcult when Khanhs
other was red her boss thought she was
pendin too much time ookin afte he
ee chiden.
he famiy was destitute, stuin to pay
ei monthy ent of 800,000 Don (36 AUD)
nd to feed themseves.
15 yeas od, Khanh joined Bue Daons
occe team, Blue Dragon United, which
ays every Sunday on dirt elds. Through theeeky ames he found out about ou suppot
oams, and went back to studyin and
anin to wed.
ue Daon heped Khanh pay schoo fees.
ue Daon eaches out to the most vuneabe kids in Hanoi: the homeess, the ophaned, the abandoned and the unaways. Evey niht ou
uteach Woke, Vi, scous the steets ookin fo kids who need hep. Ou oa is to eithe eunite them with thei famiies o set them up in a
abe envionment whee they can etun to schoo and ook fowad to a biht and happy futue. We ae now expandin ou Outeach wok,
nd to mak this we invite you to meet some of the kids we have heped ove the yeas...
Whats new at Blue
o sponso a chid cick hereo emai
UIlDINg:In Hue pov-
ce, Bue Daon has
st nished
idin fou houses
d is in the pocess
buidin two moe.
ese wi be fo the
milies of trafcked
iden escued by
ue Daon.
CHIEVINg:This June,
Bue Daon kids wi
ish high school and
7 ae cuenty study-
at univesity! Each
a, the numbe of Bue
aon teens enoin
in schoo is owin ap-
idy, and wee thied to
see them doin so we.
grOWINg: In ua Bac
Ninh povince, Bue
Daon suppots kids
at hih isk of dop-
pin out of schoo. We
stated in 2004 with
just 75 kids. This yea,
we have 590 kids in the
poam and owin!
A of these kids need
sponsos to pay fo thei
schoo fees and study
ea.
Goal
50%
Goal
$67,000
$43,436
Raised
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DRAGON TALES
Whats your name?
My name is Ninh.
Whats your job at Blue Dragon?
Im a teache.
How did you frst hear about
Blue Dragon?
I saw a teachin position adve-
tised at Bue Daon on the inte-
net. I head that this was a oodchaity oanisation, and this posi-
tion suited me, so I appied fo it.
Whats your typical day at Blue
Dragon like?
Every day I teach about four to ve
casses fo about seven chiden in
diffeent ades and subjects. We
pactise eadin twice a week. I
aso make sue to compete witten
epots so we can see the chi-
dens poess.
Do you like working here?
Yes, I ike it vey much because
I can hep chiden with eanin
difculties.
What are your plans or the
uture?
Id ove to continue suppotin
Bue Daons chiden by teachin
and tutoin them.
Staff prole
An update on the work of Blue Dragon Childrens Foundation
Vietnam June 2011
Schoolgirl at lastHanhs StoryHanh was bon and aised unde a feeway
vepass in a busy pat of Hanoi. Befoe Bue
Daon met he 2 yeas ao, the steets wee
e entie wod. With he andma, she eked
ut a ouh ife, suvivin day-to-day. He
andma coudnt pay fo schoo and she had
ew fiends.
When Outeach Wokes met with he, shewas suspicious and ot any quicky. Not
upisiny, is who ive and wok on the
teets ae way when stanes appoach, and
Hanh was no exception. But Bue Daon is
we known in Hanoi, and Outeach Wokes
make it easy fo them to visit the dop-in cente
o see what wee a about.
So Hanh ave Bue Daon a chance.
The Outeach Woke who invited he to
Blue Dragon said, At rst, we had to tell her
what was ood and bad she didnt know.
Wokin with in-house staff ike socia wokes
and psychooists ove two yeas, shes mak-
in steady poess. Bue Daon heps he
andma pay ent, and Hanh is takin casses
with Bue Daons teache Ninh at the dop-in
cente. Now she has fiends and is in schoo
for the rst time.
The Outreach Worker
who invited her to
Blue Dragon said, At
frst, we had to tell
her what was good
and bad she didnt
know
Ninh loves teaching kids with
special needsBlue Dragons founder Michael Brosowski
Hanh enjoys school and her new riends
In wondefu news fo Bue Daon, oufounde and CEO, Michae Bosowski, waschosen by intenationa news netwokCNN as one of its heoes of 2011.
Michae was nominated by a fiend ofBue Daon, best-sein autho JohnShos.
CNN Heoes, which has been unninsince 2007, econises individuas who
make extaodinay contibutions andsacrices to help others. Each year, fromthousands of nominees, thity heoes aepicked.
CNN broadcasts proles about their He-oes. You can see Michaes cip here.
Michael Brosowski:CNN Hero
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/12/cnnheroes.brosowski.street.children/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/12/cnnheroes.brosowski.street.children/index.html8/6/2019 Blue Dragon Newsletter - June 2011
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DRAGON TALES
How outreach works
An update on the work of Blue Dragon Childrens Foundation
Vietnam June 2011
vey niht, ove 300 boys and is wok
nd ive on the steets of Hanoi. They shine
hoes, sell owers or chewing gum, beg and
tea to make money to suvive. They seep
nde bides, in paks, unde benches o inny, lthy rooms crammed with twenty other
eope.
hese kids ae in constant dane of
eing beaten up, being trafcked for manual
abou o postitution, o becomin addicted
o dus.
ue Daons Outeach poam aims to
ep thouh eithe eunitin unaways
with thei famiies o settin the chiden
p in a stabe home whee they can o
to schoo, be oved and just be a kid.
Evey niht ou Outeach Woke, Vi, himsef
a fome steet kid, seeks out these vunea-
be chiden. He ives them cothes and food,and jokes and chats with them. If a chid is
in immediate dane, he takes them off the
steets to a safe home. Usuay, howeve, it
is a one pocess to et these kids home
o back in education. Steet kids ae touh
they need to be to suvive and it takes
them a whie to tust peope.
Bue Daon eaches out to about seven
new kids each week and etuns about thee
unaways to thei famiies each month. In
May, we eunited 12 unaways with thei
deihted famiies. We ae cuenty tyin
to aise funds to buy a second hand ca to
epace ou cuent vehice and make it easie
to eunite unaways with thei famiies in
ua aeas.
Ou Outeach poam is the ony one of itskind in Hanoi. Most kids te Vi that nobodyeve offes them hep except Bue Daon. Atthe moment we ony cove cetain aeas inHanoi but we aim to empoy moe staff so wecan hep kids thouhout moe of the city.
A the kids Vi meets on the steets ae indiffeent situations and have diffeent pob-lems. Our job here at Blue Dragon is to xthese pobems, whateve they may be, and
hep these kids buid a bette ife.
Let: A Blue Dragon worker chats with some
street kids. Above: A street kids seeks shelter.
I understand how it feels to live on the streetVi is vita to ou wok in hepin steet kids. He
is the one who nds those hidden children indespeate need of hep.
Vi has a specia insiht into the ives of steetkids, as he has been one himsef. He ew up
in the countyside and eft fo Hanoi at ae 14 toshine shoes to hep his famiy. He sept in a oom
with 20 othes o on the steets whee he otost, was beaten up on many occasionsand ived in a state of pepetua fea.
He was fteen when he met Michael,Bue Daons founde, and has been
a pat of the Bue Daon famiy evesince.
Thouh Bue Daon, Vi became
uent in English and nished his education. Heworked in a ne restaurant and a ve star hotel,isin to the position of Ba Supeviso by the ae of
22. But when Bue Daon asked him to becomeou Outeach Woke he coud not esist the oppo-tunity to hep kids ike himsef.
He took a hue saay cut and eceived tainin
in socia wok. Evey niht he seeks out kids BueDaon can hep usuay in the most daneouspaces in the city. He admits he is often at isk as not
eveyone is happy when a kid is taken off the steet.
Vi oves his wok with steet kids. He says: I wok
with them we because I used to be one of them.I undestand what they ae thinkin and how theyfee to be on the steet and how they see peope. So
it is easy fo me to connect with them.
Blue Dragons
Outreach
Worker Vi
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How to learn more about BLue Dragon
Hees what some of ou fiends aound the wod have
been doin to hep chiden in Vietnam...
Inid and Ano Fehe ceebated thei 10th wed-
din annivesay by askin fo donations to Bue
Daon athe than pesents. They aised $760!
John Shos and Mak Keme hed a fundaise
whee John spoke about his book Daon
House and Mak dispayed and sod his
pofessiona photoaphy of Vietnam and Coo-
ado. In tota they aised $600.
Students in Shenton Coee, Peth, Austaia,
aised an incedibe $8000 fo the kids at Bue
Daon.
The Bue Daon New Zeaand Tust oanised a
book fai in Naio, New Zeaand, and aised ove
$6000.
To nd out about other organisations andpeope who have donated to us cick here.
An update on the work of Blue Dragon Childrens Foundation
Vietnam June 2011
Featured fundraisers
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Chidens Foundation on Facebook
Watch Bue Daons movies on YouTube
Blue Dragon around the worldAs Bue Daon eaches moe chiden in Vietnam, we need moe suppot fom ou fiends aound the wod. Weae now fotunate to have suppot fom two oups:
Bue Daon Chidens Foundation Intenationa: This is the Austaian Boad that ovens ou wok in Vietnam.The Boad meets quatey, and can be contacted [email protected] Daon Chidens Tust (New Zeaand): This Weinton-based vountee o up aims to aise suppot foou wok thouhout New Zeaand. Contact them at: [email protected]
Blue Dragon ounder, Michael Brosowski, receiving the $8000 cheque rom
Shenton College students
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