Tonight we will meet with the biological sister of Daniel and Katrine. She is a hairdresser. Actually, I already met her in November 2012. At that time she was also a hairdresser, but with an employer who didn’t treat her well and with really bad working conditions. She were not allowed to go out and didn’t have any free time at all. So she was very sad, and I promised to help her.
Thanks to my friends in NGO Fontana we managed to get Ha into the REACH center who supply vocational training for disadvantaged adolescent and especially minority people. Ha and her family are Muong minority. But still Ms. Nga from NGO Fontana had a lot of work to provide legal papers and help with accommodation. Although the vocational training is free, the students need to secure accommodation and other living costs themselves. The Shelter Collection provided that for her in for half a year. All the costs were covered by me and my family, so The Shelter Collection didn’t have any extra expenses due to this kind of "personal interest" help.
Now she has a new employer thanks to job placement from REACH center and she is earning VND 2.500.000 per month. But people in Denmark, don’t think that this is heaven on earth. The working hours are still non comparable to the Danish ones. The free time is also not what we know, so the life here is tough although the help and the better condition.
We met her shortly Wednesday evening. Her salon is in walking distance from hour hotel (2 km) towards the center of Hanoi. It was an emotional meeting because I think she was suprised to see us. Although she new that we were in Hanoi and that we were about to contact her. She reminds really much of Katrine. We could not ger a translator on the fly, so I had to use the one on my smart phone. We agreed to meet Friday evening and thanks to a person from Blue Dragon we also have a translator. It is good to have friends. Ha has become a little more skinnier than on the picture. I hope she is all right.
And in addition to that: Tomorrow we are going to visit Daniels family in Hoa Binh province. The staff at LRWS helped me organize a translator and the hotel for us and we are very much looking forward to meet the family.
The picture of me and Ms. Ha was taken last year in November.
Thanks to my friends in NGO Fontana we managed to get Ha into the REACH center who supply vocational training for disadvantaged adolescent and especially minority people. Ha and her family are Muong minority. But still Ms. Nga from NGO Fontana had a lot of work to provide legal papers and help with accommodation. Although the vocational training is free, the students need to secure accommodation and other living costs themselves. The Shelter Collection provided that for her in for half a year. All the costs were covered by me and my family, so The Shelter Collection didn’t have any extra expenses due to this kind of "personal interest" help.
Now she has a new employer thanks to job placement from REACH center and she is earning VND 2.500.000 per month. But people in Denmark, don’t think that this is heaven on earth. The working hours are still non comparable to the Danish ones. The free time is also not what we know, so the life here is tough although the help and the better condition.
We met her shortly Wednesday evening. Her salon is in walking distance from hour hotel (2 km) towards the center of Hanoi. It was an emotional meeting because I think she was suprised to see us. Although she new that we were in Hanoi and that we were about to contact her. She reminds really much of Katrine. We could not ger a translator on the fly, so I had to use the one on my smart phone. We agreed to meet Friday evening and thanks to a person from Blue Dragon we also have a translator. It is good to have friends. Ha has become a little more skinnier than on the picture. I hope she is all right.
And in addition to that: Tomorrow we are going to visit Daniels family in Hoa Binh province. The staff at LRWS helped me organize a translator and the hotel for us and we are very much looking forward to meet the family.
The picture of me and Ms. Ha was taken last year in November.
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