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Go Vap Orphanage

Go Vap orphanage houses over 200 children from 1 day to 18 years old and is located on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City. The majority of the children have mental or physical disabilities and the orphanage raises and educates the children. The people who care for the children are loyal, caring and diligent, but sadly their resources are limited. The orphans' rooms are often filled to maximum capacity leaving little room for playing or personal space. There aren't enough helping hands to go around to all the children and they spend most of their time in rows of cribs.

The orphanage needs regular supplies of baby items and the children need to be noticed, played with and loved.
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Tran Pham is the ILACN coordinator for the Go Vap Orphanage. She is also a teacher on ILA's English for Young Learners Programme.

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Donations are delivered to the orphanage on a weekly basis and include ongoing supplies as well as one off items.

The following items have been donated in the past 6 months:

Recipient	Donated	Date
Older Children’s room	Bilingual Vietnamese-English Children's Storybooks	16/04/08
All rooms	Various baby supplies including diapers, wet wipes, creams, shampoo, bottles and teats	12/04/08, 26/04/08
Major disability room	Supplies to make the Mural Project 2: Under the Sea	01/03/08 – 23/04/08
Playroom	Customized shelves for storing the toys; rebuilt shelves to replace the old, damaged shelves; organizing bins for the toys	16/03/08
Infant and Toddler Rooms	Various baby supplies including diapers, wet wipes, creams, shampoo, bottles and teats	5/03/08, 8/03/08, 12/03/08, 22/03/08, 26/03/08
Infant and Toddler Rooms	Diapers, wet wipes, books, clothes	27/02/08
Major Disability Room	Wooden hand clipper toys to help with motor skills	27/02/08
Infant Room	lactacyd (3), disposable diapers (2 pks), flower sets (10)	6/02/08
All rooms	Munchkin Cool Flow Back Sleepers for the cribs and beds	2/02/08
Major disability room	Diapers (4 packages)	2/01/08
Newborn, infant and Downs syndrome rooms	Lactacyd (4 bottles), dipolac (3 bottles), baby wipes (6 cases), baby wash (2 bottles), baby shampoo (2 bottles), diapers (4 packages)	25/12/07
Orphanage	Christmas toys gathered at the annual ILACN Christmas Toy Drive.	16/12/07
Infant room	Lactacyd (4 bottles)	12/12/07
Infant rooms	Diapers and baby wash	1/12/07

If you would like to contribute items to the orphanage please see the donation list for details of current needs.

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ILACN is helping to care for these children with weekly visits to the orphanage. Teachers and staff help in the young children's rooms where babies and small children need to be fed, changed and played with. ILA volunteers also help older children with physical therapy activities and routines. The visits to the orphanage are currently every Wednesday and Saturday. If you would like to go please contact the ILACN at ilacn@ilavietnam.com.

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Event	Date	Summary
Mural Project 2	23/04/08	Throughout March and April 2008, volunteers helped to design, build and install the second mural of an ‘under the sea’ scene. This mural was placed on the ceiling in an adjacent room of the previous Mural Project. The children immediately smiled when they saw the designs on the ceiling.
Mural Project 1	18/12/07	Volunteers put up a mural of a farmyard animal scene on the ceiling of a room for disabled children who spend much of their time in their beds. The colourful pictures brought smiles to the children’s faces.
Christmas	21/12/2006	Every child in the orphanage received a gift donated by ILA students in our Christmas toy drive.

If you are interested in being involved, or organising future events please contact us at ilacn@ilavietnam.com

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