SOS Vietnam seeks help filling its Jar of Love

SOS Children’s Villages Vietnam helps to raise orphaned, abandoned, and disadvantaged children in 17 SOS villages based in cities and provinces across Vietnam. The ‘Jar of Love’ campaign is calling for a donation of VND200,000 ($10) per child, per month. The organisation also hopes to find donors who commit for the long term to help raise the children.

At each SOS village in Vietnam, one house is a home to between eight and ten children of different ages, and one ‘mother’ who volunteers to take care of them like a family. Each month the carer receives a sum of money from the SOS Vietnam fund and decides on how to use it effectively. 

With the message “No children should grow up alone”, and the image of the jar of love, SOS Children’s Villages Vietnam wants potential donors to know that a small contribution may not be much in isolation, but combined, the jar of love will always be full. Each VND200,000 ($10) contribution is an encouragement to the mothers at the SOS villages.

Do Tien Dung, national director of SOS Children’s Villages Vietnam, said that the money coming into the fund is going to be divided fairly among the mothers working for SOS. “The mothers are going to turn the money into love and material things that will help raise the children,” he said.

Since 1987, SOS Children’s Villages Vietnam has been providing a loving home to children at risk due to poverty, illness, natural disasters, and deaths in the family. The organisation enables children who have lost the care of their parents to become part of a family again, and guides them on their path from childhood to adulthood. At the same time SOS Children’s Villages Vietnam supports families in difficult circumstances so that children are not abandoned and can go to school.