Health CARE health projects aim to ensure that quality education and information is available to target populations and that health messages are communicated appropriately. CARE has conducted major research into malaria education for ethnic minorities in Vietnam and has developed a range of methods and materials to assist this process. CARE also conducts activities in the area of maternal-child health including nutrition, training for local nurses, support for doctors working with ethnic minorities, health clinic construction and equipment supply as well as reproductive health and family planning. CARE staff are currently developing projects to ensure a high quality of care is available through all health services in Vietnam. CARE works through local partner organisations which provide training and resources to administer sustainable programs, including in some cases the establishment of links with approved financial institutions.
Women play an active and important role in economic production in Vietnam today.
According to a 1989 census, nearly three quarters of women over 15 years in Vietnam are economically active. In rural areas, women are involved in agricultural labour, tending home gardens, selling produce, raising animals and participating in a variety of home-based income generation activities. CARE works throughout Vietnam to assist women improve their income earning potential by providing small loans which the women then use to purchase livestock for pig, goat and poultry breeding, or to grow small fruit and vegetable gardens or to undertake handicraft activities. The women repay their loans as income is earned from these new activities thus making the same funds available to other women in need. Emergency Relief and Rehabilitation CARE Vietnam maintains its ability to professionally respond to humanitarian crises in times of emergency.