Care The People - ONLUS

On 1st January 2005 Care the People was officially acknowledged by the Vietnamese Government as a free Association that acts in the territory of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. This gives the association the possibility of carrying out its action in the Da Nang province.

Vietnam extends to the eastern part of the Indochinese peninsula.

Its territory is mainly mountainous; hills and mountains, in fact, cover ¾ of its surface.
The plains, whether large deltas like the Red River or the Mekong ones, or very small coastal plains like those in the central part of the Country, are inhabited by Vietnamese people who represent 90 % of the present population.

They live crowded on less than 50,000 square kilometres of plain, while the remaining part of the Country, covered with plateaus and mountains, is inhabited by a few thousand people.

Today the great majority of the Vietnamese population lives in the countryside and bases its economy on rice that is grown in the rice fields irrigated by a complex system of canals and waterways.Viet Nam is the only region in South-East Asia that has been dependent for centuries from a foreign a Country, China.

The influence of China has left deep signs in the majority of the Vietnamese, in fact it has moulded their culture, determined their history and even defined the distribution of their settlementsThe physical features of the Vietnamese are the result of crossbreeding between the progenies of the original Malasian Indo-Chinese and the Mongolian progeny come down from south China.

Family binds are strongly felt amongst Vietnamese people.In the past the head of the family could sell his wife or his children or lend them or even kill them without being condemned by the Gia Long law that governed them.

Once human relations depended on material relationships: he who owned a field also owned the men, the animals and the farm products on it.With the decline of the old traditions and codes the Vietnamese family has changed aspect.

Now the Vietnamese have a conception of the family which is not much different from the western one.

In the past Vietnamese usually married when they were still very young and it often occurred that the newlyweds did not know each other at all. The wedding ceremony was sometimes reduced to the essential and the wife simply became her husband’s property, but, more frequently, the wedding was celebrated in a public form.

Nowadays weddings are often celebrated in a western style, with a simple ceremony before the religious or civil authority. At least, that is so in the cities.

Vietnamese people are very religious, but their religiousness is immanent, and it principally permeates men’s gestures, their behaviour and their everyday life.
This phylosophy interweaves with ideological choice and, as this, has its roots in the traditions of the villages where farm-workers shared the crops and, together, paid the taxes and chose the men who were to join the army.

This way of being religious is symbolized by the Pagoda, a multi-floor building which was introduced in Vietnam, in China and in other Countries in the wake of Buddhism.
The Pagodas are often built near a monastery and they have various shapes: square, hexagonal or octagonal.

AT THE PRESENT TIME WE ARE WORKING IN THE CITY OF DA NANG