What are the key issues and problems that children in Vietnam are facing?
A. The children in Vietnam are not taken care of by their families, whether that’s because they have young parents or because their families are suffering due to extreme poverty. As a result, they end up being “street kids,” or as they’re called in Vietnam, “the dust of the earth.” They roam the streets, selling items like gum, for pennies. They are forced into labor and many are sold into sex trafficking rings. Q. Since you began your work in Vietnam, how has it positively impacted the lives of the children? A. For the first time in many of their lives they are attending school, have plenty to eat and are not sleeping on the streets. How many TAL children do you work with and live in the nurturing homes that you have set up? 225 We support 111 children in Vietnam full-time. The full-time supported children live at our homes with houseparents and attend school and live as a family unit. The remaining children are partially supported by TAL. We pay daycare for single mothers, school tui
