Support Migrant Children

Supporting and ensuring wellness in school performance and social life of immigrant students.

The website will be an open forum where students can post questions and answers, and at the same time, multiple guidelines and tips are given to migrant students. It connects students with helpers. Those students can require a meeting with the helpers. Furthermore, we will receive donations from sponsors, investors then fund organizations that enhance life quality and school performance of migrant children.

We are trying to enhance migrant students' study and live performance when they move to a new province. In Vietnam, the percentage of migrant citizens is about 21.91% on 8.993.082 people. There is no data about migrant students' performance because this problem is not evaluated nationally. There are numerous factors. However, the economy is the main reason why people migrate. There are consequences if we don't tackle this soon. If a student doesn't have a good performance and development, they will graduate with no idea what to do and may become a bad part of society. Therefore, Vietnam will lose a source of workers and employees, which directly affects the economy. This problem will become more significant as the migrant trend increases in recent years. There has been data about this worldwide. For instance, the first-generation migrant student gets 500 points in problem-solving, mathematics, and reading, while the non-migrant gets 530 points according to the OCED average. It already shows that there is a gap between students. We have only mentioned about studying side, but not the social, migrant students might have disadvantages in society because of their background, and they can become the target for discrimination, racism, etc.

We will use the program to contact and help those migrant students. The migrants have already had the feeling of sadness when they have to leave their hometown. They have to go to their well-known places with their relatives and friends, and suddenly they need to adapt to a new environment with all of the new things. We will be the people who reach out and talk to them one by one to help and understand; moreover, we will try to publish stories and guidelines. This will, in some aspects, help them feel belonging to the place. The collaboration with non-government organizations also plays a vital role in this project. They will be the main changes with the program, and we will support and give them advice.

We identified the group of users through news and articles of the country. It has already shown everything we need for our research. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thi My Loc noted that it is necessary to review and be careful with universalizing kindergarten for 5-year-old children. "Don't just be happy that the children are going to school, but look at the educational philosophy and how this universalization is going."; the identification may be incomplete as the solution is only a concept. We haven't contacted any organization about the project and its users until now.

We are in the process of developing features for the program, and getting to know more in-depth about the population that we wanted to help as well as contacting organizations, fundraisers, and investors that are aligned to our goal.

We choose a website as our leading technology. This industry has grown dramatically throughout the year. Moreover, this is also the best way to contact children as the smartphone is dominating and the accessibility of the internet is increasing. It is also the fastest way to access resources without barriers. Websites are also the most advanced technology at the moment.

We expect to focus on one public school in Ho Chi Minh city, specifically 500 secondary students. This is the place where contains much of the migrants. We want to make it small to get used to the method and then increase the scale to all public schools in Ho Chi Minh city and eventually the entire southern region and the whole country. 

The migrant students will have a sense of belonging to the place they are now. Firstly, they will reach out to our forum first to seek help and guideline, there will be a question and answer section for them, and it will be anonymous. They will have the opportunity to express and say what they want and think about their academic life. Then we will try to connect to those who didn’t share and quiet to help and empathize with them. After feeling secure, we will collaborate with the school to add a program assisting disadvantaged students in raising their confidence. If our plan is on the right track, then those students will get not only increase academic performance but also an active social life.

We will use 1 indicator is academic progress tracking report.

Culture is the biggest barrier. Most parents don’t understand this problem’s seriousness while thinking this is an unnecessary thing to accomplish. The school may also think the same. So we are facing a cultural issue.

We strongly believe we can bring this to an actual program. We experienced this situation in the past which is our motivation to accomplish this project, to help others not fall into the hole of migration and help people have a different viewpoint about migrants.

We are looking for collaborating with NGOs and fund-raisers to help us deliver this idea to school