Asian (Vietnamese) Street Children

The following comment neither is about street children nor does it concern the Vietnamese rainforest, but at least it is about Vietnam: Today the German newspaper “Blick in die Welt” said that in Vietnam a boat sank, because they allowed too many passengers aboard. 21 people were saved – even though their conditions still are critical -, but nine people still are lost at sea – and most likely dead.

I know I used to have an extra photo for this topic, but to spare some space I removed it and decided to post it under this photo instead. Vietnam has a rainforest, too and if you want to help it, I suggest you to visit the two websites “http://ran.org/content/about-ran” and “http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org/What_we_do”. Actually it even makes sense to post this under this photo, because: Firstly these children will get more awareness concerning nature and how important it is to protect especially the rainforest if they receive better education. Secondly children who don’t receive a good education won’t get a good job either which may force them into things like illegal deforestation.

Of course suspicion against organisations like these may be founded, since there already have been cases of curruption in organisations that call themselves humanitarian. Also it already has happened that some organisations didn’t stick to their promise to use the money for those children only, but they used it for their own benefit. However I don’t see any other possibility but to trust them and either to donate them some money or to join them. If I didn’t trust these organisations at all,-and after all I’ve done some research on them at least-I wouldn’t have mentioned them here.
On the other hand you still have to ask yourself one question: What are the alternatives? I guess that most of the users in here either don’t have the possibility or the will to adopt one of the poor children living in a developed country.
Another high number of people either lacks the time or the interest in politics to become politically active-although so many say that this problem actually is something only someone like a politician could solve.
Francis of Assisi once said that we could solve the problem that some people are really poor while others literally suffer from their wealth by just giving up our opulence. Of course this may be correct, but one detail is missing: I doubt that too many rich people would give up their property voluntarily. Don’t get me wrong! I admire those who do so and I think there are a lot of people having the same opinion as me, but it’s just that competitiveness is something natural and human. You’ll only find a few people who wouldn’t mind having to abandon things they have gained throughout their whole life and thus suddenly being poor.

Thank u Dorothee, is very helpfull info.
Question now is how to trust if those r really true helpfull organizations?

Yes,
I’d also call this a shame. You asked me how to help, but all I can tell you is that there are several organisations trying to help disadvantaged children like these. You can support them either by joining them or by donating.
The following are their websites:
“http://www.thaichildrenstrust.org.uk/donate” (they help disadvantaged children from Thailand), “http://www.nanhikali.org/home/index.aspx” (they help disadvantaged Indian children, just as “http://www.childlineindia.org.in/”), “https://www.chailifeline.org/” (belongs to an organisation that tries to support ill children), “http://www.compassion.com/about/aboutus.htm”(a Christian organisation that helps children in need), “http://www.freethekids.org/” (they help children in greatest need, so we should help them), “http://www.unicef.org/” (the well-known aid organisation that helps children from developing countries), “http://www.kaicombeyfoundation.org/child-rescue-mission.htm” (they help poor children in some African countries), “http://www.panamainfo.com/en/donate-and-volunteer-panama039s-three-top-childrens039s-charities” (they help poor children from Panama), “http://www.africaguide.com/charity.htm” (they inform you about how to help disadvantaged children), “http://www.casa-alianza.org.uk/” (they help street children), “http://www.amchaghar.org/who-we-help.html” (they help disadvantaged children in India), “http://www.childrescue.net/” (they help them, too-just as the following organisation: “http://www.childrenwalkingtall.com/index.htm”), “http://www.save-streetchildren-uganda.com/” (they help Ugandan street children), “http://www.globalservicecorps.org/site/donate/” (they help people from extremely poor countries like Tanzania), “http://www.practicalaction.org.uk/?id=children_biolatrines” (they give children from developing countries the chance of education and they give YOU the chance to help), “http://www.iucn.org/”
By the way I know that these are quite a few websites, but I just thought you wouldn’t really mind getting confronted with so many websites. Not too many people would ask me this question, so I just took my chance.