Glocal Ventures

Glocal Ventures is dedicated to holistic, socio-economic development in vietnam. Glocal Ventures mobilizes volunteers from around the world to partner with communities in vietnam to see dreams realized and lives transformed. Volunteers serve alongside communities to help people work together in interdependency, taking charge of their situations and moving towards a more empowered and satisfying life as individuals and community. Gvi cooperated with lao cai department of education and training to launch the "improving the quality of educational service for ethnic students" projects in bac ha and sapa. In 2023, gvi helped build water line systems, playground areas, school fences benefiting more than 1,500 boarding students at fanxifan, ban phung and thai giang pho schools. The flourish program offered coaching for teachers and administrators on introducing and evaluating life skills for the ethnic students and forming a girl club at these schools to provide life skill and hygiene training for female boarding students, impacting 650 students and staff. 50,000 milk boxes were also provided to 520 students at thai giang pho school during the school year. In 2023, gvi hosted a general education training conference for 950 teachers in lao cai district. The conference provided training on interactive teaching methods and strategies that promotes student centered instruction in the classroom. In partnership with hanoi national university of education, gvi also hosted a general education training conference where 350 special education teachers and experts in the field presented information and techniques that would enable the teachers to care for and teach students with disabilities.