Empower Abused and Trafficked Vietnamese Women

We are proud to report the progress of our work. During the period January-June 2019, Hagar Vietnam reached 1,585 direct beneficiaries.

Trauma-informed care services supported 87 clients, composing 21 new admitted clients and 33 graduated clients. 100 percent of clients are offered multi-sectoral, comprehensive services. Clients received the following specialist inputs:

• Safe accommodation: 13 clients
• Legal support: 19 clients
• Education: 16 clients
• Health: 11 clients
• Psychological counselling: 302 sessions of individual counselling for 33 clients
• Life skills: 50 clients trained on life skills and legal regulations.
• Economic empowerment (EE): 22 clients received economic EE support, and 150 husbands and wives received loans.

Through projects including Social Work training for Child Protection Officers in Hoa Binh and Cao Bang provinces, Decreasing Gender-based violence in Ethnic Communities in Yen Bai province, and TIC, Hagar Vietnam conducted individualized capacity building for clients, local authorities and partners. 

• 11 trainings on TIC, child protection, self-awareness raising, gender equity, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), etc. conducted with total 297 participants from non-government agencies (NGOs), government agencies, academic institutes, etc.
• 7 presentations on being a trauma-informed organisation, approach to support sexual abuse survivors, case management, etc. were presented in different national and international events.
• 5 supervision courses on case management for 8 social workers were undertaken.
• 3 training courses on legal regulations and life skills were conducted for total 45 clients.

Hagar ensured 100 percent of clients who required safe accommodation had access to safe opportunities. Safe accommodation requirements can be emergency/short term, or longer-term support.

Different safe accommodation options, allow Hagar to better respond to client’s different needs:

• Simple house renting in community with an agreed safety plan or government-run shelters: for clients who can’t live safely in their own community or with their family/relatives.
• School boarding houses: for adolescent client students in some circumstances.

In the first six months of 2019,

• 13 Clients provided with safe accomodations
• 100 percent clients who indicate they feel safer.