Children's lives across the country

Not only in the countryside, children in the city also have to suffer hardship and deprivation. Many children have to work hard to earn a living when they are very young.

Mr. Ho Non (Van Gia, Khanh Hoa) is blind in both eyes, his nephew Ya Van Ho Diep (a Van Kieu ethnic) has severe epilepsy, his arms and legs twitch continuously every day. Feeling sorry for him, Ho Diep volunteered to be his eyes to help him with everything and took him around the village to find comfort.

Nguyen Ngoc Tai was abandoned by his mother a few months after he was born. He went to live with his aunt, Nguyen Thi Pha, a woman who had lost her husband 20 years ago. She was alone on a drifting boat. She said that raising her two grandchildren was the greatest happiness of her life. Currently, she anchors her boat on the banks of the Sa Giang River, Sa Dec (Dong Thap) to find work on shore and continue to take care of her orphaned nephew.

The baby sleeps soundly at his mother's feet while she weaves a mat. Dinh Yen mat village, Lap Vo (Dong Thap) has a tradition of hundreds of years. Nowadays, due to the development of modern society, the mat making profession is gradually disappearing, with only a few households still maintaining the tradition.

A little girl from Tram Chim town, Tam Nong district (Dong Thap). Her family grows lotus flowers for sale. She picks about 300 flowers a day, each flower costs 1,000 VND.

A Chau Ma ethnic child in Buon Dang Dung, Bao Lam (Lam Dong) holds out his hand to receive candy from a charity group. The Ma ethnic people here live in poverty and misery. Due to lack of knowledge about health, children are often not properly cared for and suffer from many diseases.

Cu Co in Mui Ne (Binh Thuan). My family is poor, so every day I go to the pink sand hill to rent sand slides to tourists. On average, I earn 100,000 VND a day. I give all the money to my mother to take care of my family. When there are no customers, I go to the sand hill with my friends to have fun.

A child picks agar on Co Ong beach, Van Thanh, Van Ninh (Khanh Hoa). Every day at 4pm, when the water recedes, he goes to cut agar, selling each kilogram for 50,000 VND. However, the indiscriminate fishing of seafood is causing the resource to become increasingly depleted.

Two children playing by the Tau Hu canal (District 8, Ho Chi Minh City), below is the black water and garbage. Over time, the beautiful canals have become heavily polluted, causing many diseases and harming people's health.

Two children begging at the corner of Nguyen Thi Minh Khai - Cach Mang Thang Tam intersection (HCMC). Here in HCMC, many children and elderly people are being herded by many "gangsters" and forced into the "job" of begging.

Baby Nguyen Thi Tron (born in 2005) lives in Diep Son island village, Van Thanh commune, Van Ninh district (Khanh Hoa). Her biological father refuses to acknowledge her as his child for some reasons. Her maternal grandfather hates her very much and named her "Tron". She is living with her 84-year-old grandfather and her mentally ill mother. Every day, the family grows corn and potatoes to make a living.

Nung Y Gia is a homeless ethnic minority child in Ha Giang city, often begging to survive. When asked about his family, he answered that he did not know. He slept on the sidewalks and in parks. He ate whatever he could get.

A Mong boy in Sung La, Ha Giang, was forced by his family to take pictures with tourists, but he did not like it and sat sadly on the porch. Since tourism has developed, Sung La has been flooded with visitors. Some children were forced by their families to follow tourists to beg for money or ask for money to take pictures with them.

The eyes of a Cham Muslim child in Bung Binh Thien (An Giang). This is a commune near the border with Cambodia, where a large Cham Muslim community has lived for nearly a hundred years.

According to Zing