Blue Dragon helps disadvantaged kids currently in Northern Vietnam, through providing refuge, financially sponsoring kids, through various rehabilitation efforts.
They are also holding an event in Singapore at the M1 Fringe Festival - Art and Healing. The details of the event I have pasted at the end of this post.
They are about to open a new centre in Hanoi, in about 2 weeks it seems, World Vision is helping them find a place (read the blog to find out more), and they need some assistance in this. I have made contact with them to ask them what they need. Basically it is easier for them to buy the stuff they need in Hanoi itself so what they would need is cold hard cash. Of course, if you can spend some time going over to Hanoi to volunteer that would be great too.
The director has sent me a list of things they need to money to buy for the new centre. They are willing to furnish receipts of the items they buy with the money you commit them with, if you are wary, as we all should be to some extent. The list is also found at the end of this post.
What I am hoping to do through now is perhaps do a little cash pool if you think you want to donate small sums. If you think you would want to do that, contact me if you know me personally. Else, you could also get in touch with the director himself to give. Michael Brosowski can be emailed at bluedragon@bdcf.org
Also, please forward this information to as many people who can care about this at all. I hope that they will be able to get what they need as far as possible.
Hope this will garner your interest and response.
Fringe Festival - Forum Blue Dragon (Vietnam)
Street To School:
A Discussion on Street Children in Vietnam
26 February 06
4 - 5.30 pm
Singapore History Museum, Bright Box
FROM shining shoes on the streets of Hanoi to working in reputable restaurants and earning a decent living is nothing short of a quantam leap. Street To School brings together Vietnamese teenagers who have made this leap with support from Blue Dragon
Children's Foundation. Michael Brosowski, director of Blue Dragon, will talk
about who Vietnam's street children are and what happens to them. Two Vietnamese teenagers, who were once ‘shoeshine boys’, will discuss their personal experiences of life on the streets. A discussion will follow on how such a transformation in their lives is possible and how Singaporeans can help make that happen. Michael Brosowski moved to Hanoi in 2002 and founded Blue Dragon Children's Foundation in response to the need of the hundreds of street children working in the city. Sim Chi Yin
started taking pictures for Blue Dragon in early 2004, documenting the
young rural-urban migrants who make a living on Hanoi's streets. She
works as a newspaper journalist.
Venue:
Singapore History Museum
30 Merchant Road #03-09/17
Riverside Point,
Singapore 058282
Nearest MRT station: Clarke Quay, Exit B (Next to Swissotel Merchant Court)
Telephone: (65) 6332 3659
Hanoi new centre 'wish list'
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