At the recent networking event at the Danish Consulate, I used the opportunity to present The Shelter Collection. I had prepared a little speech because I feel more comfortable using a manuscript:
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I am from the Danish Vietnamese Association. We help supporting disadvantaged children in Vietnam. And I could talk long time about how miserable life is for some children in Vietnam despite high economic growth. But many of you have lived here for years, and you already know.
So let me instead talk a little about who we are, what we do, and what our ambitions are.
It is our ambition that the Shelter Collection should be the first-choice of development project for Danes and Danish companies in Vietnam. We want to be your transparent and efficient CSR partner. We have a long-standing experience in working with multinational companies and multi-lateral government partners.
Since 2004 we have supported Little Warm Rose Shelter with help from the Danish Aid Development agency but the funds will run out this year.
We know that transparency is a big issue when you want to fundraise in Vietnam. Therefore we are at the moment setting up procedures for monthly narrative and financial reporting that meet the requirements of private sponsors. We have already receive advice from some companies here in Vietnam on this issue, but it is an ongoing process and we are open for suggestion, because we want to be THE Collection that a Dane think of when donating to social issues in Vietnam.
We are a group of volunteers operating mostly from Denmark, but we also have a country coordinator based in Vietnam. I am a teacher on a daily basis and previously working in insurance, so I am not a typical NGO person, and I think that time has come for more innovative thinking between NGOs and the private sector.
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That was the speech. Let me add, that Denmark is now phasing out the development support. But it is still possible to get NGO project money for disadvantaged areas or target groups. I think, that both the privater sector and the NGO sector has an obligation to try to benefit from all what has been build up thanks to the Danish support over the years. We have an obligation to leave no stone unturned in order to identify new and relevant mutual projects.
There is a new CSR fund, but their is also possibilities in designing development projects with income generating activities. These kind of development projects can form the foundation for new innovative poverty reducing projects, and Vietnam could be a role model for Private Sector - NGO cooperation.
Please contact me if you have any ideas for a mutual project.
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I am from the Danish Vietnamese Association. We help supporting disadvantaged children in Vietnam. And I could talk long time about how miserable life is for some children in Vietnam despite high economic growth. But many of you have lived here for years, and you already know.
So let me instead talk a little about who we are, what we do, and what our ambitions are.
It is our ambition that the Shelter Collection should be the first-choice of development project for Danes and Danish companies in Vietnam. We want to be your transparent and efficient CSR partner. We have a long-standing experience in working with multinational companies and multi-lateral government partners.
Since 2004 we have supported Little Warm Rose Shelter with help from the Danish Aid Development agency but the funds will run out this year.
We know that transparency is a big issue when you want to fundraise in Vietnam. Therefore we are at the moment setting up procedures for monthly narrative and financial reporting that meet the requirements of private sponsors. We have already receive advice from some companies here in Vietnam on this issue, but it is an ongoing process and we are open for suggestion, because we want to be THE Collection that a Dane think of when donating to social issues in Vietnam.
We are a group of volunteers operating mostly from Denmark, but we also have a country coordinator based in Vietnam. I am a teacher on a daily basis and previously working in insurance, so I am not a typical NGO person, and I think that time has come for more innovative thinking between NGOs and the private sector.
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That was the speech. Let me add, that Denmark is now phasing out the development support. But it is still possible to get NGO project money for disadvantaged areas or target groups. I think, that both the privater sector and the NGO sector has an obligation to try to benefit from all what has been build up thanks to the Danish support over the years. We have an obligation to leave no stone unturned in order to identify new and relevant mutual projects.
There is a new CSR fund, but their is also possibilities in designing development projects with income generating activities. These kind of development projects can form the foundation for new innovative poverty reducing projects, and Vietnam could be a role model for Private Sector - NGO cooperation.
Please contact me if you have any ideas for a mutual project.
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