SWEP-Viet Nam’s Community-Based Social Worker Training Programme trained volunteers from the Happier Group – a dedicated band of people who conduct activities for parents and children at Children’s Hospital No. 1 in Ho Chi Minh City.
As a follow-up to the training, SWEP-Viet Nam provided the Happier Group with a grant to enable them to put into practice what they had learned, which included one-on-one activity sessions in the hospital with children who had suffered burns.
SWEP-Viet Nam has been operating since 2010, with the aim of better protecting and assisting disadvantaged populations within the country by strengthening and further developing human resources in social work. It has three main areas of focus: Strengthening national leadership and coordination in social work; promoting improvements in social work education, training and practice; and facilitating the development of networks and institutional partnerships for sustainability.
