Strengthening Buddhism Organization’s Role in Child Protection

Save the Children launched a project “Strengthening the Role of Buddhism Association in Child Protection” in Ho Chi Minh City last week.

The project is a part of the organization’s child protection programme which aims to build up a supportive and protective system, without violence and discrimination, for children in Vietnam. Through training, communication campaigns, child participation activities and direct support, Save the Children helps create child friendly and violence free learning environments, establish a protection and psychosocial support mechanism for primary and junior secondary schools in Ho Chi Minh City and to strengthen community based child protection networks to protect vulnerable children. 

In partnership with the HCM City’s Buddhism Association, Save the Children will support the development of a minimum standard on child protection and will provide training for caregivers and educators to use it at association’s orphanages in HCM City.

 Under the project, Save the Children also provides vulnerable children in the communities and children living under the HCM City’s Buddhism Association’s orphanages with training on life skill and support to develop protective environment in their orphanages.

Save the Children has had a 20 years experience working in child protection in Viet Nam. A community-based child protection model developed by Save the Children in coordination with Plan, World Vision and Child Fund in all cities and provinces was approved by the Prime Minister in 2002.

The implementation of the model was set out in the government’s National Strategy for Child Protection from 2012 to 2020.