Vietnam
FOOTBALL FOR ALL IN VIETNAM
Football for All in Vietnam (FFAV) was founded in Hanoi in 2001 through a partnership between the Football Association of Norway and the Vietnam Football Federation.
FFAV aims to establish grassroots football programmes in schools to promote gender equality and teach life skills to primary and secondary school-aged children. They have a special focus on marginalised groups such as children from ethnic minorities, disabled children and orphans.
The organisation also provides training to adult teachers/physical educators so they can intergrate life skills into their football training.
Country
statistics
117 out of 189 in Human Development Index rating
(UNDP, 2019)
$2,660 Average annual salary per person (World Bank, 2021)
6.7% of the population under the poverty line (UNDP, 2019)
With one of the highest population densities in the world, Vietnam is home to 102.7 million people. Extending 1650km from north to south, the country is only 50km across at its narrowest point. Vietnam experiences high levels of internal and net emigration, both for humanitarian and economic reasons, due to extreme weather and flooding (CIA Facebook, 2019).
In 2020 Vietnam had 1.26 million displacements due to disasters. This number is anticipated to grow, with more than 1 million people at risk of disaster displacement in the next year from flooding, storm surges, cyclonic wind, earthquake and tsunami (Internal Displacement, 2021). In 2018, disasters caused structural damage to almost 115,000 homes, out of which nearly 2,000 homes were destroyed (Habitat for Humanity, 2021)
A Human Rights Watch survey from 2006 estimated there were 23,000 children who were homeless in the country (Guardian, 2016).
In 2021, two activists were sentenced to 10 years and 6 years in prison respectively for campaigning against land confiscation. (Human Rights Watch, 2021)
The 2020 estimate of stateless people is almost 33,000. The stateless ethnic Chinese-Cambodian population dates back to the 1970s. Human traffickers also exploit victims in Vietnam, including debt bondage, sex trafficking, and forced labour.
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