The Gordon Barclay Vietnam Fund (GBVF) is a charitable organisation whose mission is to relieve poverty and suffering in South-East Asia. While our work around South-East Asia has been wide and varied, most of it has been in Vietnam,latterly with visually impaired and blind children.

In Vietnam there are 600,000 visually impaired people, many of whom are children. While there is no official government policy about integrating children with sensory disabilities, many have attended kindergarten and primary schools. People used to believe that it was impractical to educate visually impaired children beyond this point.

GBVF has challenged this view. Over the last few years we have helped many of these blind or visually impaired children into mainstream secondary schools, and even university.

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