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Start date: October 2008
Expected end date: September 2025
Support office: World Vision Hong Kong;
Special projects: LIFT project funded by WV US; WATSAN project funded by WV Australia
Location: Nhu Xuan District, Thanh Hoa Province
Program Background
Nhu Xuan is a mountainous district, located in the west of Thanh Hoa province, 60km away from Thanh Hoa city and 230 km from Hanoi. The district is divided into 1 town and 17 communes. Its total natural area is 72,000 hectare.
 Nhu Xuan is among 7 districts that World Vision operates activities in Thanh Hoa.
The population density is 87 people per square kilometer. Economic growth is mainly contributed by agriculture production and forestry exploitation. The government ranks Nhu Xuan as one among 61 poorest districts in the country.
Major natural disasters are heavy rain, floods, long cold spell and hoarfrost in rainy season. During dry season, the district suffers drought, shortage of water, hot and dry wind. The mountainous geography and harsh climate make it difficult for local farmers to produce food crops and develop economics. The income per capita of Nhu Xuan district is two third of the average of Thanh Hoa province
Program Description
 World Vision supports children with life jackets to prevent them from drowning when going to school in Nhu Xuan.
However, not all children are able to access to equity of opportunity to achieve their full development. Too many barriers in the society, especially in poor and remote areas, hinder the access of many children to opportunity of education, health care and economics. The programme, therefore, will strive for creating opportunity for children who are the poor, vulnerable and marginalized by providing technical and financial assistance to the children, their family and their community
Nhu Xuan ADP is designed to focus on child well-being outcomes which aligned with transformational development, a process which children, families, and communities move towards wholeness of life with dignity, justice, peace, and hope. Nhu Xuan ADP consists of four projects: Health, Education, Capacity Building and Sponsorship relations. The four projects will build capacities of local people, promote community and especially child participation, ownership and sustainability. The ADP will operate for 15 year life span.
 A glance at some activities of Nhu Xuan ADP.
Program Development
Education Project
- Increase availability of early childhood care and development (ECCD) services: Children in remote areas have opportunity to access the service when the ADP increases the parents’ improvement and upgrades the teaching and learning condition for ECCD services.
- Equip primary and lower secondary-school-age children with life skills: With the skills, children will have ability to control and manage themselves in peaceful and helpful ways as well as develop their inner potential.
- Provide economic and livelihood opportunity for the adolescents, who dropped out of the school, so that they will be ready to earn a living.
Health Project
- Improve practices of nutrition care for children: The ADP strengthens the nutrition measurement technique, practices of nutrition, nutrition consultation and behavior change communication (BCC) capacity of health for staff of commune health stations, village health workers, and caregivers.
- Improve practices of maternal and child health care: Caregivers are provided with knowledge about pre, delivery and postnatal care, diarrhea treatment and appropriate feeding for children during their illness.
- Improve water, sanitation and hygiene for children.
Capacity Building Project
- Strengthen capacity of the community to take care of and protect children better: The project focuses on children injury prevention and increases the basic facilities for the safe environment for children.
- Provide local partners at the district, commune and hamlet level with training on program management skills, leadership, and community-based disaster preparedness planning.
- Establish Village Development Board to promote village development initiatives for children.
Sponsorship Project
- Up to 1,316 children are sponsored under the Sponsorship Relation project. Sponsorship has built and maintained among the district and commune partners, schools, volunteers, children and parents.
- Community members understand about child relations and closely work with the ADP to use the funding sources efficiently. Both the ADP and local partners strive to maintain the relationship between registered children and their sponsors as well as improve the participation of children and families in activities of the project.
LIFT Project
- Improve the production of livestock species and linkage to markets: The project identifies opportunities for the poor, especially women, to participate in value-added production, processing and marketing of livestock and livestock products.
- Improve health, nutrition, and education of children through increased household income: Local families are supported to apply techniques to improve their food production so as to increase their income and ensure a good life for their children. The people are also enhanced their resilience toward household economic risks.
- Clarify and document evidence-based programming for livestock asset-based sustainable livelihood programs. Focusing on operation research, the project helps partners learn from the initiative and capture innovative economic and agricultural programming approaches that have positive impact on child well-being.
WATSAN Project
- Develop suitable water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) models for the target communities through studying WASH models in Vietnam and other countries as well as adapting suitable WATSAN models in poor rural and ethnic minority communities.
- Develop proper behaviour-change practices of local people and children and improve access to proper WASH through community initiatives.
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