THE VINACAPITAL FOUNDATION

Founded in 2006, Heartbeat Vietnam funds life-saving heart operations for financially disadvantaged children with congenital heart defects (CHD) in Vietnam.

CHDs are the most common congenital disorder in newborns. Approximately, 16,000 children are born every year in Vietnam with CHDs and only half require treatments in cardiovascular hospitals. Without treatment, 85% will perish before their 18th birthday.

The program provides the cost of pre-treatment and post-operative care for the heart children, including nutrition support, travel fees, health check-ups as well as scholarships so they can remain in school. Heartbeat Vietnam has provided 11,430 live-saving heart surgeries.

Rural Outreach Clinic Program (ROC) is a mobile clinic program that provides free medical examinations for children who have limited or no access to health services in rural underserved communities of Vietnam since 2007. Since the clinics are already scheduled, VCF takes the opportunity to check for adult hypertension and diabetes.

“Leave no child behind” is our slogan. Without ROCs, rural underprivileged children will never find the opportunity for their heart-healing surgeries. ROC is one of the essential resources for Heartbeat Vietnam to fulfill its mission and vision to provide sustainable improvement to develop future generations in Vietnam. ROCs have screened 428,355 children and reached 49 provinces.

The program provides pediatric emergency training and fully stocked emergency crash carts for pediatric resuscitation and cardio therapy for emergency departments, as well as neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) equipment and training for hospitals to reduce infant mortality and build capacity for neonatal care in regional centers and rural hospitals throughout Vietnam.

In Vietnam, forty thousand children a year die needlessly due to emergencies where access to quality care is limited by distance, lack of skills or equipment. The infant mortality rate in Vietnam is 13.9 deaths per 1,000 live births. These deaths could be prevented if medical staff were properly trained to diagnose and equipped to treat life-threatening issues. The program has 159,600 beneficiaries from crash carts and medical equipment.

The Clean Water Program installs state-of-the-art water filtration systems for hospitals and schools in the underserved communities in Vietnam.

Studies indicate that only 55% of urban water requirements, including schools and hospitals, have access to clean piped water.

By providing safe drinking water to hospital patients and school children, our Clean Water Program improves the quality of life for the direct beneficiaries and their families, enhances education outcomes, improves public health and makes sustainable improvements in the rural communities as well.

Since its inception to August 2024, the program has 32,069 beneficiaries receiving clean filtered water and installed 117 systems.

Brighter Path empowers the brightest disadvantaged rural ethnic minority girls in Vietnam through formal and informal education and training.

The Brighter Path program selects the most academically talented ethnic minority female scholars and provides them with full high school and university scholarships for 7 to 10 years. The program has supported 2,929 scholars.

The program also initiated the Brighter Path Girls’ Club to improve and empower a large number of disadvantaged ethnic minority female students through after-school club activities focused on the four important core knowledge gaps: sexual and reproductive health, leadership skill-building, financial literacy and understanding legal rights.

Officially launched in 2024, Can-Clover provides comprehensive support for impoverished children with cancer in Vietnam.

Each year, an additional 2,500 Vietnamese children under 19 years old are diagnosed with cancer and join the 40,000 children who are already being treated. According to K Hospital in Hanoi, the average treatment cost for a cancer patient is around 176 million VND/year.

The program provides financial aid and medical treatment costs for pediatric cancer patients in difficult circumstances. It also focuses on the psychological wellbeing of the children and their families, raises awareness about pediatric cancer and is committed to earlier detection in the community.