A home for the disadvantaged

Amidst the growing need for social security, Thai Nguyen currently has many lonely elderly people and orphans who need to be shared. In the network of support facilities, Huong Ha Nguyet Social Protection Center is the common home of more than 70 unfortunate lives.

"The harbor" for people with difficult lives

The elderly are well cared for by the Center's staff.

Established in 2013, Huong Ha Nguyet Social Protection Center is the first and only private social protection facility up to this point in Thai Nguyen province, invested and built by Ms. Nguyen Thi Nguyet.

With the function and task of managing, organizing, nurturing, and caring for lonely elderly people, disabled people, orphans, homeless people, and other volunteers, since its inception, the Center has become a warm home for those less fortunate.

The Center is currently providing regular care to 75 people, including 11 homeless, disabled and orphaned children who are cared for free. Most of the elderly here are elderly (from 60 to 95 years old), have poor health, live alone or their families are unable to care for them.

Among the elderly people being cared for here, most of them need wheelchairs to move around and most of them need assistance when eating. Each person has their own story, but when they come to the Center, they all find a warm and loving support.

To ensure good care for the subjects, 20 people working at the Center are busy all day long. Not only cooking, cleaning, taking care of health, but each person is also a child or grandchild listening, sharing and even coaxing the elderly to eat and rest.

With such dedication, the subjects cared for here are all healthy, have good spiritual lives and always consider the Center as their home.

Efforts and struggles

Ms. Nguyen Thi Nguyet, Director of the Center, wholeheartedly helps an old man in a wheelchair.

When talking about Huong Ha Nguyet Social Protection Center, we cannot help but mention Director Nguyen Thi Nguyet. Her life was full of hardships. Her father died early, and when Nguyet was just over 10 years old, she followed her mother from Hai Duong (now merged into Hai Phong province) to Thai Nguyen to live.

Married at the age of 20, but not happy in life, Ms. Nguyet decided to break up and has lived alone ever since. Ms. Nguyet did not give birth, but has 4 children who she raised from birth.

Since then, the idea of ​​establishing a center to care for orphans and homeless people has grown in Ms. Nguyet's mind.

Recalling the early days of building the Center, Ms. Nguyet said: I started building in 2010, but due to poor health, having to stay in the hospital and some financial difficulties, it was not until 2013 that it was completed and put into operation. Initially, the Center only cared for 7 homeless people, but it was not until nearly 5 years later that many families found out about it and researched it thoroughly before sending their relatives to live there.

After more than 12 years of operation, the Center has taken care of a total of more than 380 people, including 17 lonely elderly people (9 of whom have passed away and the Center has taken care of their funerals and worship), and 11 orphans. In addition to the homeless and orphans, the elderly who come to the Center have contributed at different levels. To ensure funding, Ms. Nguyet is still busy with her business.

Because it is a private facility and does not receive budget support, the Center still faces many difficulties in maintaining its operations. Ms. Nguyet worries: I am old and my health is gradually weakening. I hope that there will be more cooperation from society, support and facilitation from relevant levels, sectors and philanthropists so that the disadvantaged can have a peaceful home.

Source: https://baothainguyen.vn/xa-hoi/202509/mai-am-cho-nhung-manh-doi-kho-khan-ab100e7/