On Tuesday 16th April, a ceremony took place to inaugurate the school of the social center Maison Chance in Dak Nong province. Laeticia Hallyday and her two daughters was there for the event. Welcomed by...
It was the third time teachers and students of Mont Saint Sacrament School visited Maison Chance. Every two years, a group of teachers and students will come to do volunteer work at the Village...
The annual Warm Spring program is organized by Sacombank to share difficulties with lonely elderly, poor people and people with disabilities… every coming spring. This year, instead of gather people at the Phu Tho...
On the occasion of coming Tet, Miss H’Hen Niê has come to the Village Chance and give presents to students of the primary school. This program is sponsored by Grab Vietnam. From the beginning...
In December 2018, the members of CASIRA spent one month at Maison Chance for a volunteering trip. This is a way to make your journey more meaningful when you can travel and do something...
At the beginning of 2019, children at the Village Chance have a big gift. They receive a lot of new toys to share together. Toys are more than just fun and games for children....
On the first Saturday of the New Year 2019, Scott Truong and his Vietnamese family members paid our school children a generous visit at Village Chance. In the name of his work as a...
Laeticia Hallyday is a great friend of Maison Chance. Through her association La Bonne Étoile, she keeps supporting our kindergarten over the years. During her holiday in Vietnam this time, Laeticia Hallyday paid a...
Christmas is a time of giving and sharing. It is the time to bring joy and happiness to the others. At Maison Chance, we embrace this spirit with all our hearts. Every year on...
Dr Phillip Lam is an experienced dentist from Australia. He is also the founder of Outwork Kindness which is a movement that encourages people to take the kindness out of their hearts and into...
Maison Chance Social Center in Dak Nong was created to provide a lifelong living for abandoned quadriplegics. In addition, the Center provides primary education for poor children and vocational training for people with disabilities...
December 3 was chosen as the International Day for People with Disabilities to raise awareness about disability and promote their rights in society. On this occasion, the Social Department organize activities to help members...
On December 1st and 2nd, Maison Chance participated in the festival “Balade en France”, organized by the Consulate General of France in Ho Chi Minh City in collaboration with the company SOPEXA. “Balade en...
Long ago, November 20 has been chosen as “Teacher Day” in Vietnam. On this day, students have the opportunity to express their gratitude to the teachers who have equiped them with knowledge and prepared...
After each meeting with Tim’s benefactors, thousands of confusing feelings flood into my heart, it’s impossible for me to bury them to be calm and to write my thanks and impressions to such generous...
On November 4, 2018, Maison Chance had the pleasure of welcoming Marc Lavoine, famous singer-songwriter, actor, who composed the song “Bonjour Vietnam”, performed by Pham Quynh Anh. With sober and meaningful words interpreted by...
There are various signs of success. One of them is international cooperation. For non-governmental organizations visitors from foreign countries mean that their work has been heard of and appreciated abroad. It brings great satisfaction,...
Mid-Autumn Festival is the second-biggest traditional festival in Vietnam after Tet, the Vietnamese lunar new year. According to the lunar calendar, it is celebrated on the evening of the 15th day of the eighth...
For the occasion of Mid-Autumn Festival 2018, Maison Chance was pleased to welcome the leaders and staff from Aeon group to visit and give presents to the children at Village Chance. The meeting took...
It was a beautiful morning on September 5th, 2018 when we celebrated the first opening ceremony of the new school year in Dak Nong Social Center. A total of 118 children, divided into Grades...
Aliénor, a 20-year-old French law student in Lyon, arrived in Maison Chance at the beginning of July. She, as a volunteer, takes care of the Village Chance primary school children on a daily basis....
On August 15th, exactly one year after their last visit, 6 Quebeckers from the association Podiatrists Without Borders came back to Maison Chance to offer their help to our beneficiaries. Thanh Liem Nguyen, a...
Maison Chance is proud to announce you that on August 16th, Dak Nong social center opened its doors to its 103 first beneficiaries. All of them are disadvantaged children who didn’t have the chance...
Last week a group of students from Hannam University in Daejeon, South Korea, came to Village Chance to teach the kids of Grade 4 a little more about their culture. Maison Chance is happy...
Léo is a 64-year-old-French-Canadian massage therapist. Caring, open-minded and outgoing, he is currently working as a volunteer for Maison Chance. He provides massages and a follow-up and support to a lot of our beneficiaries,...
In order to welcome our 97 first beneficiaries in Dak Nong social center around mid-August, Maison Chance employees and partners work twice as hard to deliver the equipment on time. On top of the...
Last week, a group of 8 medicine students from Creighton University, Nebraska, USA, came to pay a visit to Maison Chance as volunteers. During their 2 weeks’ visit, they offered vision screenings to the...
Last week, Maison Chance welcomed 40 employees from Boehringer-Ingelheim pharmaceutical company from all over Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, and Singapore. As part of a team building work, Boehringer-Ingelheim employees...
During the past 4 weeks, Maison Chance welcomed 4 Swiss medicine students. Julia, Mylène, Nadège and Nimatullah chose Maison Chance to complete a community immersion internship for finalize their Bachelor at Geneva University. Here...
At the end of June, Maison Chance was pleased to welcome one of the Brunei International School classes in the new social center in Dak Nong. The students came to paint a tropical design...
Last week, Singapore Catholic Highschool students came to visit the beneficiaries of Maison Chance. Along with their teachers, they spent their first afternoon at the Take Wing Center and learned how to make the...
After a year filled with emotion and discoveries, it is finally time for Village Chance students to be rewarded for their efforts. Thursday, May 31st, 2018 officially indicated the end of the school year!...
The early April days came with colorful sunshine to the highland of Vietnam where welcome brothers and sisters of our Project Office. Yes, we get back to our huge project, Maison Chance Daknong. With...
March of 2018 ends with us happily with a meeting with the CEO of NeoMac, Mr Jonathan Hwang and the Representative of NeoMac in Vietnam, Mrs Kang. Spring, at last, brought us lots of...
From March 13th to March 21st, 2018, a group of 3 students and 34 lecturers from Republic Polytechnic School of Hospitality from Singapore had a great week at Maison Chance. During 8 days, they...
On March 22nd 2018, a group of students from HKAUG spent a meaningful day at Village Chance and Take Wing Center. The group consists of 48 high-school students and 5 teachers. In the morning,...
Inspired by the fresh air of the spring, the eager artists of Maison Chance enjoy to create their new work. From the talent brushes of the abnormal hands, the love for the life has...
First time, Dak Nong has a large-scale center to welcome children in ages 2-14 with physical, mental and psychological problems in the second quarter of 2018. Their future will be completely changed. In many...
Maison Chance wishes you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year 2018! With courage and determination, your projects will come true! We would like to start the year with this quotation from Helen...
Asian Labrys is an association fighting for lesbian rights in Asia. In addition to its activities, it also supports other noble causes. This year, its members came to Maison Chance to donate the funds...
At the end of August, the school kids of Maison Chance participated in the drawing contest organised by Roche Diagnostics Vietnam, the pharmaceutical company which has been now sponsoring Maison Chance for a decade....
With the purpose of collecting funds for our projects in Vietnam, Tim went to Europe where charity events were organized for Maison Chance at the end of October. She flew to London with her...
The Mid-Autumn Festival was celebrated with love and joy at Maison Chance this year. A lantern competition preceded the celebrations which ensured participation from the young and old at Village Chance. Few days before...
I am back home after an important trip to Can Tho for a fundraising event for Maison Chance, on September 16th and 17th, with the MC Thanh Bach and Mrs. Thuy Nga. I feel...
After many years of work, the book « Maison Chance – a future for the less fortunate in Vietnam » was written in Vietnamese by the author Hoàng Nữ Ngọc Tim – Founder of...
On August 17th, 12 Quebeckers from the association Podiatrists Without Borders arrived at Maison Chance for a humanitarian mission. Thanh Liem Nguyen, founder of the association, doctor and professor in the field of podiatry...
Listen to your heart “Listen to your heart” is the topic chosen for the press conference dedicated to the launching of Tim’s new book “Maison Chance – A future for the less fortunate” which...
Sylvie is a 55 y-o professor at the University of Lyon in France. In the summer of 2016, she starts looking for a volunteering opportunity in Asia. Her aim is to be useful to...
Roche Diagnostics Vietnam is a long-term partner of Maison Chance. Since 2008, Roche has brought its support through many activities such as showing the paintings of our artists at corporate events or providing tests...
July 2017, school ended about a month ago. The primary school pupils of Maison Chance are now following the “summer activities”. They study until August in preparation for the coming school year which starts...
Thanks to Mr. Jaques Sudan, an employee of the Jeld-Wen Door Solutions company, Maison Chance was donated 75 wooden doors, specially manufactured for the Social Center project in Dak Nong province. However, it was...
It’s already the end of the school year 2016 -2017. On Tuesday 30 May at the Village Chance, about more than 200 children of Maison Chance has been gathered with teachers, “mother” Tim and...
March 14th was a happy day for the children of Village Chance. 150 employees of Halyard corporation came from countries such as Australia, Japan, Korea … to exchange activities and give gifts to the...
Maison Chance ended the year 2016 with a party bringing together this great and beautiful family. All generations participated in the New Year’s Eve music program: children of the kindergarten, the circus team, the...
Every autumn, as soon as the leaves turned yellow, Tim would travel to Canada. In the past three years the colors appeared right on schedule, but Tim stayed home. There were a variety of...
On this special day, students from Maison Chance honored and expressed their gratitude and respect to their teachers. A great show and some fun games have been organised on the occasion. Each student benefit...
The semi-precious workshop opened last September at Maison Chance is a success! More than 8 people work there creating bracelets, pendants and others jewelers. Thanks to Mr Son our trainer.
Wednesday, October 5. We celebrated the inauguration of semi-precious stone workshop at Take Wing Center. Tim surrounded by beneficiaries, employees, visitors and her partner Sunny Opal were praying for the development of the workshop...
Children and the future school of Maison Chance in Dak Nong have found their lucky star. This Thursday October 6, 2016, a Maison Chance team led by Tim welcomed the co president of the...
Last week, Maison Chance and especially the children welcomed Williams Sonoma enterprise. The director of the Vietnamese subsidiary and some employees came, their arms full of presents: toys of all kind for the kindergarten...
Children’s Day, festive mi-autumn or moon festival: many names for the same event. At Maison Chance, the children who are honored by the support of the company Ton Hoa Sen. They organized everything :...
Alice, Christopher, Hien Linh, Jasmine, Le, Tuan, Chun Lai, Joseph, Ethan and Stephanie: here are the names of eight volunteers and two coordinators of the 4th mission of the PEACE project (Protect and Empower...
At the beginning of July, pupils of Village Chance welcome the arrival of forty college students from Ho Chi Minh City. Twenty of them come from the University of Science and the rest of...
A group of students from Brunei came and spent the morning at the Take Wing center of Maison Chance on Monday of this week. 35 students at the age of 15-16 year – old,...
Start of the week, 10 wheelchair adapted for basketball arrived well packed in cartons. And thanks to the generous funding of the foundation Basaid that the project could lead. Since the creation of Village...
School year has now ended for the students of Village Chance’s school. Before leaving for the holidays, the end of school year was celebrated on Saturday, May 28th, 2016. All the classes from kindergarten...
On 18th 19th and 20th May, a group of students came to help the association Maison Chance. They come from different cities of the US but all are medical students and would like to...
Sunday 8th May 2016, the groundbreaking ceremony of our future social center took place in Dak Nong. Tim with her project team and the construction company pray to thank the earth and the sky...
Maison Chance Switzerland exhibition will be held on April 6-20, 2016 in Morges
We were very pleased to welcome a group of enthusiastic volunteers from PEACE – Protect and Empower All Children through Education (Hongkong University) to Maison Chance for their Vietnam Service Learning Trip. This is...
The gala of Maison Chance France took place on Sunday October 11, 2015 at the “Espace Reuilly” in Paris. More than 400 people, including four Vietnamese renowned personalities, were present. Maison Chance France proposed...
Last Thursday, the doctors of the Ophthalmologic Hospital Cao Thang conducted a free vision check-up for all the students, beneficiaries and employees of Maison Chance. Thank you very much!
This Saturday November 29th, to celebrate the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we were 60 people representing Maison Chance and over 6000 participants in the Suoi Tien Park.
Monday was full of encounters and discoveries for Maison Chance. We received, in particular, the visit of Serge Goossens, a baker and pastry chef since the age of 15 and owner of the Goosens...
As each summer, the children of the Village Chance had the opportunity to take part in exciting and meaningful activities. This year, the Project office and the department of Education organized summer activities from...
Once again, we’re on the way to Dak Nong. The reason of our trip is to make social investigations, to meet disabled people and orphans and to study agricultural technology of this province. We...
Vietnam has a long tradition of philanthropy and community assistance, reflected in such folk sayings as “Whole leaves wrap torn leaves,” which is a beautiful culture and goes deeply into the bloodstream of Vietnamese....
In recent years, in addition to assisting disabled people, orphans and underprivileged people in Saigon, Maison Chance has organized numerous trips to remote areas to distribute wheelchairs, functional equipments suitable for people with disabilities...
Two French volunteers, Elisabeth and Marine, arrived in October 2013 to work at Maison Chance. Elisabeth came for 3 months and Marine for 6 months. Elisabeth is a physiotherapist and Marine is an occupational...
Here are some pictures of our last trip to Dak Nong. We went to prepare for the construction of a new Maison Chance in this agricultural area. March 2014
In the show An Tet Viet, foreigners living and working in Vietnam share their impressions about the Tet festival. This program was made by VTV and broadcasted on the Vietnamese television during the days...
After the visit of the Museum of Vietnamese history and the zoo, our program of discovery of the society continues for the pupils of Maison Chance. Thus, on November 30th we organized a trip...
Some pictures of the distribution of wheelchairs in Dak Nong during our last prospecting trip for our future center Maison Chance in the countryside. December 2013
Like every year, Maison Chance organized the Christmas vigil for its beneficiaries. But this time, the usual distribution of presents did not happen. Instead, the budget for gifts will be used to help flood...
Each night of December 31, the world welcomes the New Year. At Maison Chance also a small party has been organized for the beneficiaries, the staff and the volunteers. Happy New Year 2014! Some...
Ngo Cong Khanh won the first and the third prizes with a pinguin bagpak which received 74 ballot papers and a shark which received 43 votes. The second prize went to Tran Thi Trinh...
After several months of apprenticeship, almost all the students of the IT workshop found a job. To celebrate this good news, the social department organized a trip to encourage them to continue their training...
I return to my countryside last August after 10 years, enough time to be homesick! After almost 2 hours flight, my small brother and I arrived at Noi Bai Airport in Ha Noi. As...
The International Day of People with disabilities is coming soon. On this occasion Maison Chance organize the first design contest at its sewing workshop. This contest takes place from October 14 to December 2...
My name’s Thu Hien and I am 30 years old. I am born in Vung Tau, a city located at 65 kilometers away from Saigon. I have two big brothers and a big sister....
In December 2012, Maison Chance had the pleasure to be the recipient of a 3-year sponsoring from the HSBC Future First Global program. In addition of the support for the basic expenses for the...
Every day a lot of unfortunate people are living around us in difficult situations. They must bear physical and mental suffering but they keep hope and a strong desire to live. They work very...
There’s no big step from dream to reality for Tim and the daring people at Maison Chance. As I was back to Village Chance after my first visit a few months before, I have...
Every month, the apprentice hairdressers of the Tan Binh vocational training center have the opportunity to practice on a class of students of Maison Chance. And once again, the children will not escape from...
Thank you again for all the beautiful pictures you sent us! It was not easy for our jury to make a choice but it finally awarded two photos! – The First price is attributed...
It is 6 a.m. on Sunday 4th August 2013, when our Maison Chance bus, full of all the material we will need for the day, leaves to Dam Sen, an amusement park located near...
In Vietnam, May 31st marks the end of the school year and this year at Maison Chance the success rate has been 100% perfect with all 140 children passing their exams with flying colours:...
A few days ago, two vans filled with wheelchairs from Canada arrived in the courtyard of the Village Chance. The beneficiaries welcomed the news with a big smile. The children rushed to provide assistance...
On Friday June 5th 2013, our big family celebrated its 20th anniversary. Could there have been anywhere better to celebrate it than in the beautiful Saigon Opera House built by the French in 1900?...
