Khai Tri

This picture was taken at the Khai Tri school in Long Xuyen, Vietnam, in June 2007. The Khai Tri school was one place we visited while learning about social service agencies in Vietnam. The Khai Tri school is an orphanage, so the children either have no parents or have been abandoned, and they live at the school. These are some of the kids that lived at the school. They took my camera and started taking pictures of each other. It was really cute.

Most of the details about the school are blurry in my mind, because it has been about a year and a half since I was there, and I haven't talked about it very much. A much better resource would be Chi, an MSW student at WVU. Before she came to study social work at WVU, she got a degree in English from An Giang University and volunteered at the Khai Tri school. (Quick fact about An Giang University-in June 2007 it became the first school in Vietnam to offer a graduate certification in Vietnam, partnering with WVU. I believe WVU is now working with 7 universities in Vietnam to build a social work program for the country.)