Empower Abused and Trafficked Vietnamese Women

Key Results:

In the latest six months, 52 women and their households were provided with small-scale loans or goats to generate and sustain household incomes. This is vital to help survivors of abuse and human trafficking to rebuild their lives and create a future for themselves. 

Survivor Story:

Becoming self sufficient with Hagar’s Animal Bank Project.

Ms. Minh is a member of the Goat Raising Credit
Group in Nghia Thinh commune, Nghe An province.
With Hagar Vietnam’s support, she was provided
with animal husbandry training by the Agriculture
Ministry’s technical specialists, and a pair of goats
for breeding. After two months, one of her goats
became pregnant. She appreciates being a member
of the group, and says, “The project doesn’t only
provide goats but also knowledge about raising
goats, animal husbandry and how to manage
household economics. Thank you very much.”

Before Ms. Minh joined Hagar’s Animal Bank project,
she experienced significant hardship. She married her
husband in 2012, becoming his second wife after his first
wife passed away. She has no children of her own and
cares for two children from her husband’s first marriage.
Her husband is in poor health, often drinks and is
sometimes violent.

In 2017, Ms. Minh accepted an offer from a labor
migration company to go to Taiwan to work in a
household. In reality, she was forced to work in a coal
mine. After five months, Ms. Minh was suffering ill health
and had to return to Vietnam. One month later, she had
to pay the company 90,000,000 VND (approximately
USD$3,900) compensation because she terminated her
employment contract early.

In 2020, the family borrowed a lot of money for her
husband’s son to work in Japan but he was unable to
leave Vietnam due to the pandemic. Ms. Minh’s family
is now in debt and pays monthly interest on the loan.
Assets from Hagar’s Animal Bank project enabled her to
borrow 50 million VND (approximately USD$2,170) to buy
a buffalo and an additional goat. Ms. Minh meets her
loan repayments by raising animals, growing sugar cane
and rice, and selling slippers in the local market. The
Animal Bank loan and support from Hagar has
been important in helping Ms. Minh become
financially resilient and heal from the
trauma of her experiences.