Theme: Early Childhood Care & Education (ECCE)
Location: Lai Chau, Hoa Binh, Lao Cai, provinces, Vietnam.
Duration: 2016-2023
Access to early childhood care and education (ECCE) remains limited in remote and isolated areas of Vietnam where poor, vulnerable and ethnic minority families are predominantly located. For children who do not achieve basic foundational skills for learning, there is a high risk of dropping out of school or repeating in early grades.
Aide et Action has been working in Vietnam on child care and education since 2005 and our project strives to improve early learning opportunities and enhance children’s cognitive and socio-emotional development through the provision of child-centered pedagogic strategies and improved learning environments. We are doing this through increased collaboration and learning exchanges among key educators in the region with the aim to enhance policy advocacy for early childhood care, education and parenting. We are also engaging parents, teachers and local authorities in supporting early childhood care and education and leading behavioral change in the community.
2020 results: In 2020, our project reached 1,932 ethnic minority children, 82 pre and primary teachers through providing hygiene kits, story books, training sessions and offline learning forums to share best practices. We also reached 1,000 parents and 18 government authorities through role models initiatives and community communication events.
Our activities include (but are not limited to):
- Equipping schools with child-friendly learning materials, facilities, and infrastructure
- Enhancing children’s soft skills to strengthen their school readiness
- Improving nutrition for children and their families
- Developing tools for parents and teachers to track children’s school readiness
- Building capacity of teachers and education leaders in child-centred methodologies and play-based approaches
- Building capacity of parents/carers to support children’s learning through improving parenting skills and livelihood development;
- Increasing collaboration between preschool and primary school levels
- Documenting and disseminating good practices on ECCE, including sharing and learning events
Partners: The People’s Committee of Tam Duong district, Lai Chau province. (They formed Project Management Unit – PMU to run the activities)