EDUCATION
Providing education to break the cycle of poverty
VIETNAM
Son Ca Kindergarten
The kindergarten and day care (called Son Ca Songbird Unit) for community children ages 3 to 5 years for underprivileged children is housed in CNCF’s flagship Sunshine Social and Medical Centre. At Son Ca, children receive care and early childhood education in a safe and loving environment where their nutrition and health needs are monitored daily. Without CNCF’s support, many parents would have no choice but to take their children to work or leave them home alone. Classes follow the Vietnam National Curriculum for early school education and we modify teaching methods to meet our children’s learning needs.
Child Sponsorship Programme
The Child Sponsorship Programme in Vietnam provides crucial financial and social support for children and their families living in extreme poverty and helps them to improve their living conditions to the point that they no longer need assistance.
Education Scholarship Programme
The Education Scholarship Programme in Vietnam supports continuing education by providing scholarships to students pursuing secondary, vocational or university education to children whose families are otherwise unable to afford schooling.The financial support we provide to our children covers school fees ensuring that children can remain in the educational system. The ESP offers scholarships are awarded to eligible students from Ho Chi Minh City and several rural provinces in the Mekong Delta region.
Arts & Music Programme
The programme uses the transformative power of the arts and music to help disadvantaged children build self-esteem, confidence, and social skills by allowing them to explore their imaginations and creativity in a safe, supportive, and loving environment. Art and music play a crucial role in the social, intellectual, cognitive, and emotional growth and development of all children. Art and music can help children control their emotions, which is a critical skill for all children and is particularly vital for the children our Foundation serves who are raised in poverty and experience daily emotional stress.
Sports Programme
CNCF’s Sports Programme provides children with the opportunity to play sports, build good health, to learn team work, improve social skills, to protect themselves and build confidence, and to keep children off the streets where they are vulnerable.CNCF strongly believes in the transformative power of the sports in enabling disadvantaged children to build their self-esteem and develop into happy, fulfilled and expressive young adults. We believe that an education without exposure to the sports and arts is not a complete education.
MONGOLIA
Arts & Music Programme
The Blue Skies Arts & Music Programme offers our children the opportunity to develop their talents and interests, from making felt crafts to lessons in street dance, our programme provides a diverse range of creative activities to accommodate our children’s unique characters and interests. The programme uses the transformative power of the arts to help disadvantaged children build self-esteem, confidence, and social skills by allowing them to explore their imaginations and creativity in a safe, supportive, and loving environment.
Blue Skies Day Care
The Blue Skies Day Care supports the educational and emotional development of pre-school children (ages 1 to 6) living at the Foundation’s Blue Skies Ger Village and surrounding areas. The Day Care creates a secure and happy environment where disadvantaged children can develop socially and emotionally while learning basic literacy and numeracy skills to prepare them for primary school and cultivate healthy habits, confidence, self-esteem, and the ability to think creatively.
Child Sponsorship Programme
The Child Sponsorship Programme in Mongolia provides crucial financial and social support for children and their families living in extreme poverty and helps them to improve their living conditions to the point that they no longer need assistance.
Education Scholarship Programme
The Education Scholarship Programme in Mongolia supports continuing education by providing scholarships to students pursuing secondary, vocational or university education to children whose families are otherwise unable to afford schooling. The financial support we provide to our children covers school fees ensuring that children can remain in the educational system. The ESP offers scholarships are awarded to eligible students from Ulaanbaatar and surrounding rural areas.
Boys Prison Education Programme
The Boys’ Prison Education Programme provides the facilities, services, guidance, and care to support the boys’ educational and emotional development while in prison and enables them to achieve the necessary qualifications and skills to break the cycle of poverty and crime once they are released. The Boys Education Programme has played a crucial role in pioneering reform in Mongolia’s juvenile detention system, leading to a fundamental change in the way the nation’s young offenders are perceived and managed.
