WWO announces award from NPI for Vietnam
WWO ANNOUNCES $1.3 MILLION 3-YEAR AWARD FROM NPI FOR GROUNDBREAKING PROJECT IN VIETNAMThe U.S. President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has awarded WWO $1.3 million over the next three years for a groundbreaking project to restore social work services to orphans and other children with HIV. The project, Capacity Building for Psychosocial Services to Orphans and Vulnerable Children (CBPS): Building Capacity through Direct Services and Social Work Training is part of PEPFAR’s New Partners Initiative (NPI).
In keeping with WWO’s core values, this project will bring and integrate orphaned children into their communities while building local capacity. CBPS is an innovative and comprehensive model of targeted social work training, networking, capacity building and assistance with direct services.
WWO will achieve these goals through three interrelated strategic objectives:
• Curriculum Development for social work training schools in working with children and families under stress;
• the creation of Family Resource Centers that will provide direct services as well as serve as training centers for service providers; and,
• strengthening networks of organizations that work with orphans and other vulnerable children with special emphasis on access to schools.
Realizing another core value, partnership, WWO will partner with the Open University in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) and An Giang University, and will coordinate with the Department of Labor Invalids and Social Affairs, People’s AIDS Committee, Vietnamese mass organizations (e.g. Women’s and Youth Unions), Faith and Community Based Organizations, Pediatrics Hospitals 1 and 2 in HCMC, and Long Xuyen Children’s Hospital in An Giang.
NPI is sponsoring WWO Program Director Mark Beukema and Vietnam Country Director Linh Do to attend its February meeting in Uganda at which they will meet with other recipients and exchange ideas for future service and collaboration.
We applaud and congratulate Linh Do, the entire team in Vietnam and here in the U.S., who all worked so hard to secure this wonderful grant.
Photo at right: Linh Do, Vietnam Country Director
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