By Loan Nguyen | MEL Manager
Dear friends of LIN,
Narrow the Gap 2022 has officially been kicked off since last April, and we are delighted to share with you some updates of the program design and progress. The program is built centered around 3 pillars including nonprofit management capacity strengthening, community resource mobilization and enhanced community engagement. This year, the program takes on the symbol of "nút giao", figuratively translated as "crossed paths", implying a place where people have every opportunity to expand their network, by meeting and connecting with others from difference backgrounds and industries. LIN uses the symbol of a crossed path to communicate a message that when all walk their paths separately, it gets difficult to maximize impacts, but when synergized, we are enabled to multiply the outcome of our efforts to achieve sustainable development goals.
While preliminary works for the implementation of a new cycle of Narrow the Gap in 2022 have been underway during the past months, the LIN team is excited to finally be able to hit the roads to visit our nonprofit community on the ground in May. From 18 to 20 May, the LIN staff successfully conducted a site visit trip to Lam Dong and Dong Nai provinces and Cu Chi district in Ho Chi Minh city. We have reached out to the leaders of 3 community initiatives on their ideas to alleviate the living conditions of their fellow villagers.
- Oh Mi Koho Coffee Project in Di Linh district, Lam Dong province: The project will contribute to SDG 8 through providing fruit-drying equipment and tools for local ethnic families to make dry products, generating some incomes.
- IEM Gõh Churu Project in Don Duong district, Lam Dong province: The project will contribute to SDG 6 through installing a water well system and water piping system to local ethnic households of Bó Ka Bang village.
- VAVA Cu Chi Project in Ho Chi Minh city: The project will contribute to SDG 4 through opening free classes for children affected by Dioxin/ Orange agent in wartorn zones of Cu Chi.
These 3 projects are illustrative among dozens of other initiative applications which LIN has been receiving during the past few months. After a long period of time being affected by Covid-19 and lockdown, we are happy to see our nonprofit community taking steps to recovering and continuing to come up with ideas for the growth of their fellow men, women and children.
The trip has helped LIN create more crossed paths with new communities and new nonprofit groups and learn about their struggles as well as initiatives to change the status-quo. We believe in the weeks and months to come there will be more crossed paths as we present to our stakeholders what we have seen on the ground, the potentials, enthusiasm for positive change and the challenges. And in our quest to ensure no one gets left behind, LIN hopes to see more "nút giao" created for greater and real impacts to take place.
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