Recognition ~~ Partners
Excerpts from official publication of the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, Ha Noi; full article in Vietnamese follows:
HELPING THE POOR IMPROVE THEIR LIVES
Minors, a U.S. based non-governmental organization, has been a partner of the Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs (MOLISA) for many years in assisting ethnic minority students. Minors’ humanitarian activities include providing basic necessities, school supplies, educational tools, and medicines as well as medical equipment. The organization has also sponsored training workshops on health care and subsidized in-patient hospital care for poor people, especially children.
Minors’ humanitarian aid has centered on assisting provinces in mountainous areas. The organization’s assistance ranges from providing necessities (e.g., blankets, mosquito nets, and cooking utensils) directly to the hands of needy people, to building dormitories and awarding scholarships to ethnic minority students.
According to local authorities’ assessment, over the past years, MINORS funded projects have been successful in impacting poor people’s lives.
The organization’s assistance, be it monetary or in-kind, has always been directly delivered to the targeted recipients through the coordination of the local departments of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs (DELISAs). Minors has viewed the poor with no means to make ends meet and orphaned children with limited access to education as their targeted recipients of the organization’s humanitarian assistance.
MINORS’s humanitarian activities have not only led to improved living standards for the poor, they also have helped accelerate poverty alleviation in funded provinces. Their assistance, although small in scope, has seen an immense effect.
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