Orphan Voice Inc
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Children born with special needs in the Vietnamese countryside usually receive no therapeutic intervention. Government social services are not strong enough to provide therapists or therapy centers and families don’t have enough money to take their child to a larger city where therapy services are available. Many parents in rural Vietnam send their children off to orphanages because they cannot afford to raise them. State-run orphanages are overcrowded and underfunded. In Vietnam, sex trafficking originates in rural provinces where prevention education is lacking. Women and teenage girls are considered most vulnerable to trafficking. Young women who are aging out of orphanages in rural areas also run a high risk of being trafficked as a result of poverty, inadequate education, and lack of means for independence.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Building Strong Families
Our Building Strong Families program focuses on education, for example, patently classes, encouragement and initiatives to help moms and dads make more money. These “income generation assistance” initiatives build on the skills that Mom or Dad already possess. Orphan Voice adds business training, business planning, help with budgeting, and other practical help among other things.
Where we work
Affiliations & memberships
Christian Alliance for Orphans 2011
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of children reached with anti-trafficking seminars.
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
We want to serve orphaned children by providing them a safe and loving environment.
We minister to children with special needs and their families by providing them physical therapy at no cost to them.
We want to empower families so they do not feel like an orphanage is a better option for their children.
We want to educate the children and families about the danger of sex trafficking and teach them how they can protect themselves and where to seek help. We also want to help young girls who "age out" of orphanages to avoid being trafficked.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We serve orphaned children by providing them a safe and loving environment at Promise House Group Home.
We minister to children with special needs by providing them therapy through Phu Ninh Therapy Center and Hope Therapy Center.
We empower local families through our Building Strong Families program to be financially stable.
We presented More Precious Than Gold seminars to schoolchildren to equip junior-high students, teachers, and parents to defeat the plans of child sex traffickers.
We operate Victory House to help orphaned girls who’ve been forced to leave the only home they’ve ever known–their orphanage–when they “age out.” Victory House provides mentoring, college or vocational training, and a place to live with a food stipend until the girls graduate and get a job to support themselves. Victory House also serves as anti-trafficking protection, because young girls aging out of orphanages with no place to go are prime targets of traffickers.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have been serving the children and families in Vietnam since 2008. We have dedicated and professional staff and we also partner with the local church and community leaders as well as the relevant government institutions and officials. Our programs' staff (project managers, counselors, social workers, therapists) and volunteers are fully equipped to carry out the ministry.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
At Promise House Group Home, we have 13 girls and 7 boys. Three caregivers and two Orphan Voice Central Office staff are with the children helping with homework, mentoring and just "hanging out." The children are fed, clothed, educated, and provided with health care.
Because of receiving therapy at our Therapy Centers, over 20 children have gained the ability to walk when they previously could not walk or experienced great difficulty in doing so. Countless others made smaller developmental gains, such as the ability to feed themselves. We plan to work with up to 30 children at each Therapy Center and have a licensed therapist with a few staff to help them to take care of the children.
In 2017, we presented More Precious Than Gold seminars to: 51 elementary, junior and senior high schools, 669 educators, 21,514 students of all grades and 97 parents of the students. We currently have 12 female residents at Victory House. Our goal is to continue
150 families already participated in our Building Stronger Families program. In 2017, 42 beneficiaries in 7 families participated in our Building Stronger Families program. Due to the interventions, all the involved children (32) are doing better in school, are healthier and, most importantly, are living with their birth family.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
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Operations
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Orphan Voice Inc
Board of directorsas of 05/30/2024
Anthony D. Brewer
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.