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Constructions 2013-2007

The seven Kindergarten of Mai Chau from 2007 to 2013

Mai Chau is the first district to be targeted by our intervention campaigns. For six years, Vinaes built seven schools there without ever encountering a police officer to monitor our movements. The school director in Mai Chau district is responsible for ensuring administrative compliance with the People's Committee and the local Department of Education so that we can intervene without having to introduce ourselves.

In addition to these projects, we also helped build four spring-water wells, one of which supplies water to the obstetrics clinic in the nearby hamlet.

Tong Dau, 2013

2013 February: Construc-tion of the kitchen...

...equipped by Vinaes

2013 April: At noon, the classroom becomes the canteen

Na Muoi, 2012

2012, May: visit of the group of CCAS employees

One of two classrooms

The sanitary block

Na Meo, 2010

The new construction replacing the old chalet blown away by a storm in 2010.

2011, November: The children return for the inauguration...

...before taking a nap under the duvets offered by Vinaes

Na Phon, 2010

The nursery chalet on stilts and the kitchen on the right
Babies with their nanny and the school principal

The kindergarten

Xam Pa, 2009

The kindergarten built in a blind alley...

...inaugurated by a lunch.

Children with Mr Bang balloons

Pà Co, 2008

The old classroom with wooden partitions supported by glass beer cans against the damp floor.

Pupils leaving the school

Dried cakes given by Vinaes

Xa Linh, 2008

The mistress admires the first school built by Vinaes

The letters of the alphabet are glued onto the juice cans.

Inaugural lunch

Spring 2013, the school principal told us that all her infrastructure needs were completed and offered to help other regions, because for the rest she can "manage".
After seven years, we leave Mai Chau with a twinge of heart.

II - Two other projects, 2011 & 2010

Bac An, 2011 

Construction of two classrooms

The school is located on the area of...

 ...an old dilapidated establishment

Winter 2011: We visite the new establishment

...At lunch time

 

...Yes begin to close

During all our visits, there is a child who follows us like our shadow.

Our visit to the Luong Thuong Elementary School Boarding School built in 2009

Luong Thuong is the foothills of the mountains of Cao Bang to the east of the province of Bac Kan, a village with a primary school for the district. Most ethnic minority children have to walk four to eight kilometers each day to get to school, along a steep track crossed by a stream that tropical rains make impassable. At this rate and undernourished, their bodies wear out, regularly causing absenteeism and persistent fatigue in class.

This is why the director of the Primary Education Development Program in Na Ri district is asking us to build a mixed boarding school building for around thirty primary school students, including four dormitories.

During our first visit, he told us that before speaking to us, he had spoken about this project to one of his former pupils who had become the general secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party until the end of 2010...

September 2010: Inauguration of the boarding school by Mr. Bang and us

It includes five dormitories

Each has six pull-out beds

... bathrooms, showers...

...cistern next to the showers

Hanging laundry and in the background the toilets

Water cistern reserved for cooking

The kitchen room equipped with tripods...

...for wood fires
The management provides them with a large room transformed into a kitchen. The hey organize their life together after class. Coming back from the weekend in them, they are primarily responsible for sticky rice for the week. The school gives them the cooking utensils. The meal consists only of rice without meat, without vegetables, without condiment.
 In return, at the school level, the school results are quickly felt, more attendance and application. And above all, the joy of living together

Mr Bang always quick to inflate the balloons...

 

...before distributing with us quilt...

 

...then educational books