Narrow The Gap - Crossed paths for social impacts

Dear our wonderful supporters 

Thank you to everyone who has funded, shared, and gotten involved with Narrow The Gap - Creating shared value for 17 SDGs – we are always so grateful for your support!

Check this out: Our first round of Narrow The Gap completed last month. We've got the ball rolling! (Yay!) And here more: 

The first Pitching event of Narrow the Gap Community Program was on 8 April with the participation of nearly 100 people, including public audience, six NPOs, and 16 members of the evaluation committee of the project. Six projects participated in the 1st round 2018 to pitch their initiatives, and four of them were chosen. Here are four projects funded by Narrow the Gap, Round 1:

1. "Safe Going To School" Project from Frogsleap foundation is targeted at elementary school children in Duc My commune, Can Long district, Tra Vinh province; people on Con Ho, Tra Vinh province. Through the activities of educational programs "prevention of drowning" and "prevention of child sexual abuse"; Give 100 life jackets to elementary schools. Build 2 water filters for Con Ho residents. Building a bridge for Con Ho people, the Frogsleap Foundation believes that students are trained on drowning prevention and child sexual abuse prevention, environmental awareness among students. The people have clean water that can be used in daily activities, people have safe bridge to go.
2. The project "Empowering Ethnic Women Rights in Water Supply Project in Mekong Delta Region through Gender Promote and Raise Gender Awareness and Leadership Skills",by Rural Research and Development Center of An Giang University targets women and children under 18 years old in An Cu, An Hao Commune, Tinh Bien District, An Giang Province. The objective of this project is to (1) disseminate research findings on women's participation and empowerment in water management in the Mekong Delta to many stakeholders (local people, government, and NGOs); (2) Set up four committees called "Women, Water Initiatives Leadership (WWIL)" in four project areas, local women will manage the common well; (3) Empower women and girls through workshops / forums on gender issues in water management; and (4) Collaborate in researching and expanding the network to raise funds to share about gender equality in natural resource management, particularly in water management in the Mekong region.
3. The project "Building Habits of Using Water Resources and Clean Hands for Students" by the Innovation and Community Connectivity Center” targets 673 students and 59 managers and teachers in Vung Liem district, Vinh Long province. Through training activities on water saving and clean hand washing procedures; Construction of handwash; Build images, messages on the use of water savings, clean hands. The project would like to bring two gutters of handwash with the communication/instruction message to ensure 70% of hand washing properly; 80% use water properly when washing hands.
4. The project of "Building psychological counseling center of Binh Trieu" of Friends for StreetChildren. The direct beneficiary community of the project consists of 400 primary school students aged 7-16 at the Binh Trieu school, more than 50 students are receiving formal study scholarships and 27 are living in Binh Trieu Shelter in Binh Trieu school. Indirect community are family of students and teachers, staff of the center. The main activities of the project include (1) Surveying and consulting room decoration; (2) Purchasing Materials and decorating the room; (3) Developing working Schedule, allocating personnel, and work agreements; (4) Training for teachers and staff; (5) Soft launching, official project implementation for the 2018-2019 school year. Expected results from the project activities are a psychological consultation room (30m2 area); A team of psychologists who consulted and supervised the results; Behavior change, and positive improvement for the children participating in the consultation.

We are indeed proud of this accomplishment yet we still have two more rounds to go together! At the moment, we still need to raise $2708 of $5000 that will allow us to fund and make sure the NPOs have the knowledge and resources they need to stay afloat and bring changes to many people lives in Vietnam. 

Early this month, we are very excited to get second round off the ground. We are therefore determined to meet and hopefully even exceed our goal, but we really can’t do it without you. Please consider making a contribution and pass our campaign on to as many people as you can and help us get the rest of the way there.

Your donation really do change thousand lives in Vietnam no matter big or small. Whether you contribute $10 or $100, your support will directly and indirectly benefits 1,000+ people in Vietnam. This means $10 or even only $1 will change life of one person and sustain social impact in the community!

Let's narrow the gap together! 

Sincerely, 

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