Accompany with an ageing world
HelpAge International is the secretariat to a global network of organisations promoting the right of all older people to lead dignified, healthy and secure lives. The HelpAge International network has since grown steadily in size and influence. We now have over 130 network members and many more partners in 80 countries across the world.
HelpAge International started operating in Vietnam since 1997. By 2011, when Vietnam officially became a country with a rapidly ageing population, the Country Office of HelpAge International in VietNam was established to promote and provide support for our local partner in Vietnam in order to ensure the well-being of Vietnamese older people.
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Intergeneration Self-help Clubs (ISHC)
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Home-based Care Volunteers
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Beneficiaries through ISHC's Volunteer network
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of 63 Provinces across the country apply ISHC model
What we do
We aim to directly support older people, communities, and partners by hosting regular training with methodical and inclusive content, which puts the community and partners in the center and actively promoting their capacity, enable them to use available resources for community work effectively.
We aim to develop and communicate how to apply sustainable livelihood models in the community so that older people can have access to business and farming models which appropriate to their health conditions to ensure food security at the community level.
We carry out communication campaigns, raise awareness about existing policies related to older people's rights. On the other hand, we conduct regular studies to identify the needs of older people and advocate for changes in existing policies to ensure the rights and interests of older people to be fully implemented.
We aim to come up with community-based disaster risk prevention solutions that maximize the participation of people, especially older people, to effectively implement the work of natural disaster prevention and management in Vietnam.
We aim to develop health care and wellbeing for older people in the community, both physically and mentally, through community-based health education and training to gradually improve the quality of primary health care
We promote older people's participation in social activities, as well as the contribution of the whole community to mobilizing social resources to help and support the disadvantaged cases in the community.
Project Activities
What our partners think about ISHC Model
HelpAge International's model of Intergeneration Self-help Club (ISHC) in Vietnam, after more than 10 years, has been completed and applied, bringing many benefits to older people nationwide. The ISHC model has been increasingly developed and replicated throughout the villages, increasing its popularity and participation.
"All previous projects recede as the funding and experts do. However, this ISHC model is maintained and grow bigger and better."
Mr. Ngo Trong Vinh
Vice President of Vietnam Association of the Elderly
'We think this model should be replicated in every Vietnamese village. Today, although they are older people, the activities seem to be organized by university students.'
Mr. Koide Akio
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Expert
"Since joining the club, we are happier, healthier and more confident. I'd never imagined that my family could escape poverty during my old age"
Mr. Truong Minh Thong
Member of Chu village ISHC, Tan Lap commune, Ba Thuoc district, Thanh Hoa province, Vietnam.
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