Vietnam

We started our operations in Vietnam in 2003 with microfinance and education projects in the Dong Nai province, 180 km northeast of Ho Chi Minh City. Rural low-income women who are considered unbankable receive access to our microfinance services.

• Microfinance

  Since 2013, around 40,000 rural low-income women who are considered unbankable have received access to our microfinance services. Over 150,000 loans have been disbursed, and we keep continuing our expansion to new parts of the country.

• Financial Education

  Financial literacy is critical for improving money-management skills and promoting asset-building for the poor. Since 2012, The Dariu Foundation has been training financial literacy for the rural youth in Vietnam, in addition to computer skills training.

• Scholarships

  The Dariu Foundation grants around 1,500 scholarships every year, and over 50% of the recipients are girls, due to the general bias of parents and society in favor of boys. Over 16,000 students have been granted our scholarships to date.

• Mobile Librabries

  13 mobile libraries to date provide children in the most rural areas with the opportunity to access books they would never have otherwise, as well as laptops with internet access – and the world wide web

• Mobile Schools

  With computer literacy still being an unaffordable luxury for most children in the rural areas, we developed and implemented computer skills training in our mobile schools. 50 mobile schools are currently operating in Vietnam, having trained 200,000 children and youth in digital literacy to date.

• Kindergartens

  We built 32 kindergartens that can accommodate around 120 - 300 children and provide them will all the essential needs like uniforms, pens, booklets, etc.

• Digital Literacy Skills

  In our 50 mobile schools, we have trained 200,000 children between 2011 and 2018 in Digital Literacy Skills. Our vision is, to enhance the digital literacy rate of the rural children, enabling them to embrace the digital revolution and provide basic digital skills for the rural children who lack access.