Many pitiful situations
Le Binh An (born in 2021) is a boy with a bright and smart face. He entered the camp under quite special circumstances. At the end of 2023, people in Thanh Ha ward (Hoi An city) discovered an elderly woman carrying a child walking back and forth many times on the streets in the area.
Suspecting unusual behavior, the authorities invited the woman to work and learned that she was looking for the baby's mother.
According to the woman, she opened a family daycare center in Ho Chi Minh City. In 2022, a girl from Quang Nam came to leave her child. At first, everything went smoothly, but after a while, the girl did not come to visit her child or pay for care. After searching everywhere in Ho Chi Minh City, she was unsuccessful, so she decided to go to Quang Nam to find the girl's relatives.
Realizing that carrying a child on the street not only affects the child's health but also poses potential risks of child trafficking, the local government has asked the Quang Nam Social Protection Center to take in and raise Le Binh An.
As for the three sisters Do Thi Kim Ngan (2017), Do Thi Bao Nhu (2015), Do Van Khoi (2019), they were taken in by the center to be raised because their mother had disappeared.
According to the records, the mother of the three children is from Tuy Phong district, Binh Thuan province, and went to Hoi An to work in a karaoke bar. At the end of September 2024, the local authorities discovered that the mother had taken her youngest child and taken her eldest child away to another place, leaving the three children alone, so they requested the center to receive and protect them urgently.
Or Le Phuong Linh (2013, from Cam Thanh) has an abnormal mother, so in 2017 the local authorities asked the center to accept and raise her.
In addition, two children, Nguyen Tran Cam Chau (2024) and Tran Phuoc An (2023), were found abandoned when they were born and were also brought to the center for care and nurturing.
Mr. Nguyen Duc Lien - Deputy Director of Quang Nam Social Protection Center said that the unit is taking care of and nurturing 100 people who are social protection beneficiaries, including 12 children (under 15 years old), including 7 normal children and 5 children with physical and mental disabilities (3 children are bedridden).
"All the children who come here are in pitiful circumstances, so for now, we will take care of them for a while. If later on, relatives come to take care of them, the center is ready to hand them over. Otherwise, we will do our best with our conscience and responsibilities according to the State's regulations," said Mr. Lien.
Care like children
Due to the "abandoned" mentality, some children tend to be stubborn and do things against others' wishes, so the nurses at the Quang Nam Social Protection Center must have appropriate care methods.
Ms. Le Thi Xuan (nurse) said: "Normally, the children are obedient, but sometimes some of them do what I want. If they are scolded, they will be offended and say that the teachers are difficult, so sometimes I have to follow their wishes like my own children and not my own." Ms. Xuan has been doing this job for more than 15 years.
Quang Nam Social Protection Center currently has 20 nurses, divided into shifts, each shift has 10 people working 24 hours. According to Mr. Nguyen Duc Lien, 12 children are cared for and raised according to the State's regulations.
Specifically, food expenses are 2 million VND/month, in addition, at the beginning of the year the State will support 1.5 million VND/year to buy clothes, books... In the case of newborns (under 4 years old), support is 2.5 million VND/month (including 500 thousand VND for milk and diapers).
For the 2 newborns, in addition to the State's support, the unit also connected with nurses taking care of postpartum mothers outside to ask for additional breast milk.
“Children who cannot eat by themselves will be fed by staff, and will have a nurse accompany them to bed at night. The center will pick them up and drop them off at school, and in the evening, there will be a schedule for them to eat, play, study, and prepare their books for the next day on time. If a child is unlucky enough to be sick, the nurses will take turns taking care of them,” Mr. Lien added.
According to Mr. Lien, taking care of the children is difficult because most of them are not accepted at the same time, each child has different circumstances, ages, and psychology, not to mention their education is also not uniform.
For example, the three sisters Do Thi Kim Ngan, before entering the center, had skipped many days of school, so the unit had to quickly find extra teachers to help them keep up with the program.
Therefore, for children with special circumstances who are of school age, the center has developed a study plan, assigned staff and workers to monitor their studies, and regularly contacted the school to grasp the children's learning situation. At the same time, it has found teachers for children to participate in tutoring, creating the best conditions for children to study and go to school.
In particular, the center also maintains a regular class for disabled children in the room, divided according to a schedule to guide each child with different types of disabilities and evaluate and comment on the children every month.
Currently, most disabled children maintain basic communication skills and cooperate with teachers. Even for disabled children who cannot walk, the center has intervention methods to guide them to play intellectual games outside of rehabilitation training time.
Source: https://baoquangnam.vn/ngoi-nha-chung-cua-tre-em-kem-may-man-o-quang-nam-3155979.html
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