>Join us ! >I want to help now: -a scholarship: 19 € -one microcredit: 40 to 125 € -one village added for all programs: 1.000 €/year Mekong Plus is a member AERF. We support the campaign!
Our association is as much present in France (association under the French Law of Associations 1901, founded in 1994) as in Belgium (association without lucrative goal, founded in 2003 following actions carried out in Belgium as from 2000). Our goal is to achieve community development in farming areas, with 3 guiding principles:
>Aiming at the poorest, whose yearly income is less than 100€ (about 1€/day/household);
We didn't invent anything, we simply take our mission at heart. We have no office in town, all our teams live in the villages. We like a lot what Lao Tseu, Chinese philosopher (700 AC) said:
Go toward people Live with them Learn from them Like them! Begin with what they know
In 1994 Gilberte DO-HUU and Robert EBERHARDT visited Vietnam and particularly the work of Bernard KERVYN and his wife Thanh TRUONG. They were friends: they had known each other since they were involved in the « Frères des Hommes » NGO, when Gilberte and Robert were in France, while Bernard was in Bangladesh...
In the beginning, Mekong Plus only had only one small project, Tiên Thành. But little by little the number of project increased, the local team in Vietnam enlarged: it amounts today to more than 180 people and leads 4 significative programs.
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