Mision
The East Meets West Foundation transforms the health, education and communities of disadvantaged people in Southeast Asia by building partnerships, developing opportunities and creating sustainable solutions.

Focus
Since 1988, the East Meets West Foundation has been working in Vietnam to design and deliver innovative solutions to difficult problems faced by the country’s most vulnerable people.We have served millions of people in Vietnam, from providing rural villagers with clean water, to saving newborns by modernizing neonatal wards, to constructing large medical and educational facilities that serve tens of thousands of people every day.

Program Area and Various Programs

a)  Health and Medical care
In the developing countries that EMW serves, those living in poverty often cannot afford even the most basic health care, while many medical facilities lack the technologies necessary to provide treatment. East Meets West’s health and medical programs address the problem of access to treatment on several levels, providing direct assistance to individuals, supporting their families, training medical staff and improving systemic capacity. Our health programs include supporting lifesaving surgery for children with heart defects, equipping hospitals with the necessary medical technologies and training to save and treat sick infants and providing comprehensive treatment to people with disabilities.

The various programs are
       1)  Breath of Life- is EMW’s innovative neonatal program aimed at substantially reducing infant mortality and morbidity in Southeast Asia.

       2)  Suport Network for People with Disabilities- The Support Network for People with Disabilities provides comprehensive support for disabled people by creating channels of medical, educational and vocational assistance. The program operates in Da Nang, Quang Ngai and Thai Binh Provinces.
      3)  Dental Program- The Dental Program provides free, modern dental care to poor children in Vietnam, most of whom have never seen a dentist in their lives. Lack of dental treatment can lead to long-term, serious health consequences.



b)  Education
EMW’s education programs provide opportunities to children from impoverished families in rural areas, as well as enhancing Vietnam’s capacity to provide schooling in underserved areas. Children living in rural poverty lag far behind their urban counterparts in access to education and the chance to pursue improved life opportunities. EMW takes a comprehensive approach to the problem, making supportive, multiyear scholarships available to these students, building new schools, and supporting early childhood education programs.
   1)   Scholarship Program to Enhance Literacy & Learning- the Scholarship Program to Enhance Literacy and Learning (SPELL) provides funding for school fees, supplies, uniforms, books and tutoring to children in the poorest 10% of families in Vietnam. Students who stay in school are guaranteed support through high school graduation.
   2)  Kon Tum early Childhood Care & Education Program
   3)  An Giang / Dong Thap Alliance to prevent Trafficking
   4)  Village of Hope
   5)  Tien Phuoc Orphanage

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c)   Clean Water and Sanitation
                                   East Meets West Foundation’s Clean Water and Sanitation Program provides people in rural Vietnam access to safe water and improved sanitation in order to greatly reduce water-borne diseases. This dual approach to improving community health leads to better health and improved economic and education opportunities in these areas
                                  Providing access to clean water and improved sanitation is one of EMW’s top priorities in Vietnam. Water-related illnesses are the leading cause of human sickness and death in the world, taking the lives of about 6,000 people a day. Women, children and those living in rural areas in developing nations bear a disproportionate burden of the water crisis, often spending hours collecting water every day—time they could more profitably spend pursuing work or education. The EMW village water system is designed to be a model of community sustainability.
                                  Since the Clean Water & Sanitation Program’s inception, EMW has built over 150 water systems in Vietnam and has brought improved sanitation to almost 20,000 people—these efforts have brought more than 240,000 people in Vietnam access to clean water and improved community sanitation.

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