Field of intervention :Training and insertion
Association : Smile Group
Project :House of Hope
Localisation :Ho Chi Minh City
Country :Vietnam
Supported Group :60 young people in difficulty
 
Objective

To create the House of Hope for the training of disadvantaged young people.

Project holder

Zina Seceragic, Director of Human Resources, Accor Vietnam, South Korea, Philippines and Japan.

Association

The NGO Smile Group, which was founded in 2004, aims to help direct and indirect AIDS victims by providing them with financial, educational, social, medical and psychological support.  Smile Group also runs HIV awareness raising campaigns to inform the local population.

In 2009, Asia-Pacific identified this association as an Accor partner in the region (to create Accor Asia-Pacific’s greeting cards for 2011).

Project

Smile GroupThe Accor Foundation is supporting the creation of House of Hope. In October 2010, the association moved into a house in the center of Ho Chi Minh City, from which it will expand its activities, welcome families badly affected by the virus and develop an education and insertion program.

This “House of Hope” organizes training courses in English and computing and provides access to health care, medical support, yoga lessons… Using the funds donated by the Accor Foundation, the house acquired computing equipment to provide professional training for 60 youths.

IT lessons:                                                                     English lessons:

Smile GroupSmile Group

support €10,000 in 2010