Flowers for English Classes As a result of our fundraising efforts, the children of Thanh Tien Flower Village now get English classes! Their teacher is one of our scholarship recipients from the village, who is now qualified to be a teacher. For 300 years, this was a royal village, devoted to making beautiful paper lotus flowers for the Emperor’s … Read More
Vietnam
Vietnam Farmers Get Taiphoon Help
Some very needy farmers in Vietnam who were affected by Typhoon Haiyan have received funds to get back on their feet and start being able to generate some income. This is Cung Thi Quen, who is 92 years old and makes a living raising ducks and chickens. Each family received between 1M and 2M VND. … Read More
Rose Vietnam helps Village Children
Here are some photos of some of the activities of Rose Vietnam funded by Rose Charities Canada. We work with the village Thanh Tien near Hue in Central Vietnam. This village has traditionally been a centre for making paper flowers. You can see some of the flowers in the background of this photo. The art of flower-making was … Read More
Project Forum Jan 2013
Dr Andrew Macnab. Expert on Health promoting schools and founder Brighter Smiles Africa An amazing group of people attended the Jan 2013 Rose Charities Canada Project Forum of varied interests and backgrounds and organizations. A comment from one of the participants summarized it well ‘I cant believe the amount of shier competence and expertise present … Read More
Social Enterprise Seminar – Vancouver
Social Enterprise Seminar 2012. Held at the Creekside Community Centre Vancouver in Fall 2012, the seminar attracted a group of Rose Charities enthusiasts and supporters with wide interests and areas of involvement. Rose Charities organizers believe very much in sustainability and local support and involvement for all projects and one way to achieve this is … Read More
Rose Charities Celebrates…
Rose Charities Celebrates International Women’s Day ! Rose Charities has many projects aimed specifically at women. Often women are the most overlooked group when it comes to international aid projects, but we feel that any project aimed at women has a far reaching effect throughout the community. From women’s support groups to vocational training, we … Read More
Rose Vietnam Annual Report
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Paper Flower Project Vietnam
Rose Vietnam has been approached by the chief of Thanh Thien village in Hue to help revitalize a 400-year indigenous craft of hand-made paper flowers. We learned that at one time this village was well known for these flowers but that since the war the industry has not flourished. Rose Vietnam was recently granted a … Read More