Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation

Large numbers of children and adolescents have migrated or have been trafficked to urban areas in Vietnam. Dragon provides opportunities and tools to enable these vulnerable young people to improve their conditions through three main programs: Step Ahead, which provides practical (school fee subsidy, housing, legal services) as well as social and psychological support to street youth with the ultimate aim of having them return to school and resume their studies; Safe and Sound, which helps children get out of situations of trafficking and return to their families and spreads trafficking awareness among among villages and communities; and Stay In School, a program to provide material support in the form of school fee subsidies, school uniforms and books to help rural youth stay in school and with their families.

EMpower’s current grant to Blue Dragon supports their legal aid program, which provides a variety of much need services to poor youth (from obtaining proper identification papers, to rescue from trafficking situations and to representation in meetings with law enforcement).