Activities

Imagine a day in the life of a family with 4 children of different ages with different needs for day-care, for schooling, for clothing, for feeding, and for entertainment. Multiply that by 50 and you got Maison-Chance which operates very much with the same requirements and obligations. Each day we are faced with the same questions: how to care for the many children and disabled who come daily to the Take Wings Center for the classes and training, and to those severely disabled who stay at Maison-Chance. Each day brings new challenges and countless obstacles and only with the help of numerous volunteers and permanent staff mebers can we deliver such loving care.

The activities at Maison-Chance are multiple and diverse, a recognition of the diversity of the children and disabled who daily depend on Maison-Chance to deliver the needed subsistence and dose of affection. But to serve the growing number of beneficiaries, we also need to look beyond the present state of Maison-Chance and question ourselves: what can we do to improve the quality and efficiency of the scarce resources that we receive, what kind of projects would bring improvement in the life of our beneficiaries and how are we going to finance those projects.

Here is a list of some activities that Maison Chance USA is currently involved in or intends to undertake in the near future depending on our funding capabilities:

  1. Promoting the understanding of its member of the situation of abandoned children and disabled in Vietnam.

  2. Promoting the cultural and artistic aspects of the Vietnamese-American community in fundraising activities.

  3.  Providing technical assistance, training and volunteers for the organizations involved in direct support of orphans and disabled.

  4. Increasing communication and exchange among non-profit organizations in the United States, Vietnamese-American and other ethnic background.

  5. Providing a shelter and education to abandoned handicapped persons and orphans and providing family structure where everybody plays a role to care for one another and to share responsibilities.

  6.  Transitioning the beneficiaries (orphans and disabled) from a state of total dependency back to civil society where they can support their own well-being and regaining self-respect.

  7. Implementing programs and activities for the physical and functional rehabilitation of the beneficiaries including basic medical service, physical rehabilitation, formal education, vocational training, computer education, painting and other arts education.

  8. Working with or volunteering in organizations in Vietnam for the direct support of disabled and orphans.