In 2000 Hoang Thi Hung’s husband died of a disease, and with limited farming knowledge she was no longer able to support herself and her 14-year-old son.
ActionAid has been working in Vietnam since 1989, and we’ve formed partnerships with more than 20 local organisations. Over 100,000 households benefit from our work.
Driving into the port city of Hai Phong, Vietnam’s third most populous city, I was struck by how organised everything seemed. From the wide, clean, not-particularly-crowded roads, the industrial...