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Orphanage – Disabled Centrum
The Sisters of Saint Paul de Chartres

The sister’s orphanage means :

62 orphans sheltered as early as 2 days of age
17 mentally disabled between 2 and 12 years of age
Poor young girls, sheltered and educated
A nursery school with 400 children between 2 and 5 years
14 religious who take care of the orphanage and provide the children with care and affection
26 teachers trained in maternal pedagogy who care for their education
A small dispensary that provides free healthcare for benign diseases.

The result is:

For the young sheltered and educated girls:

· Most go to the university or higher education

· They have their baccalaureate,

· Others are either in their last school year or in the secondary school.

62 orphans sheltered as of the age of 2 days

Most of the children come from young unmarried mothers who want to remain anonymous in order to find a new start in their lives, because the Vietnamese mentality does not accept an irregular union.

17 mental disabled between 2 and 12 years

These are the most neglected of the Vietnamese society and of their family. The first where sheltered in 1996 with a state licence. Most of them where nothing more than a heap of flesh with stiff hands and feet and lifeless, generally victims of the war’s dioxin. After one year of care, re-education, nutrition and above all affection, these children come back to life. Some of them even can walk, pronounce words and speak or produce sounds.

A nursery school with 400 children between 2 and 5 years

Parents who need to work place their children in the care of the orphanage as early as 7 a.m. and as late as 6 p.m. Families pay a contribution of €8 a month for the teacher’s salaries and meals of their children. It is indeed a small contribution but parents are often too poor to give more than that.