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   Back in the spring, Sister Marie-Hervé requested our help for an end of year school trip project for the 47 boarding girls with excellent academic results. The trip was to take place from the 10th. to the 13th. of July 2022. The aim of the trip was to expand...

  Our boarding girls are working hard in anticipation of their end of year exams. They have to catch up on the classes which were not given during the different lockdowns. However, during the Easter weekend, they relaxed as you can see in these two short films : a...

    Our organisation recently decided to financially support a group of ethnic minority students. These students are lodged free of charge in Ho Chi Minh City by a vietnamese benefactor, Mr Minh (photo on the left). However they must pay for electricity,...

   On April 14th 2021, on the eve of her 90th birthday, Sister Innocentia left Kontum for Cu Lao Gieng where she will take a well deserved retirement in a convent on an island in the middle of the Me Kong river, some 50 kilometres from Cambodia. She was...

   Sister Marie-Philippe, Carole Agnès, Sister Marie-Ange and François AcciliOn January 20th. 2021, Carole AGNES (our president) and François ACCILI (our communications officer) went to Portieux, to the headquarters of the Providence Congregation to meet Sister...

  Our annual general meeting is usually an opportunity to meet and talk with our sponsors in a convivial atmosphere as, after the meeting itself, there are drinks followed by a meal. Unfortunately, this year, because of the Covid-19 lockdown, we had to conduct our...

  Valérie and Philippe Galmiche, who sponsor two children through our association, had the opportunity to go to Kon Tum a few months ago during their trip to Vietnam. Here is their account of this visit : "In March 2020, we visited Vietnam and had the opportunity to...

  Every year, the Children of Kontum organise a dinner dance to celebrate the arrival of the lunar new year. 2020 is the year of the rat and in her speech our president Carole Trarbach explained that it is a [RAW] "year for relationships, for communication and also a...

  From November 26th. to 28th., our team of volunteers swung into action, as they do every year, to prepare several thousand fried spring rolls which had been pre-sold. The local function room was transformed into a hive of activity, as you can see in the...

    Ly was sponsored from primary school until the end of secondary school. She is now 24, has a 4 year old son and is currently working in a hotel. 80 children are currently taken care of by our organization, as per the following breakdown : Academic level...

  Nadine, Monique, François, Carole A., Carole T.Carole A. has taken the position of secretary, replacing Sonia who has had to resign due to new professional obligations. Crole A. will be assisted by a recent recruit, Nadine our new vice secretary. Nadine, who has...

    On July 29th., we received an email from the nuns confirming receipt of our bank transfer and showing us, through photographs, how some of the funds were used. Thanks to the amount allocated to clothing, each girl received 2 white shirts to complete her...

    In 2015, Michel Daubert lodged a Vietnamese nun from one of the Kontum Vinh Son orphanages for a week. She told him about the mountain dwellers and in particular about the Bahnar people and their harsh living conditions. The following year he went to Kontum...

    Cheque presented by Mrs Loiseau, head-mistress of the Thomas Becket school.Every year during Lent, the Thomas Becket school organises a BOWL OF RICE action and donates proceeds to a charity. In 2019, it was decided that proceeds would be donated to a charity...

  After our annual general meeting on April 27th. 2019, our guest, the photographer Michel Daubert, will project his photos of the ethnic minorities of the Central Highlands of Vietnam in Raon l'Etape's cinema. Michel Daubert became a photographer at the age of 60...

  After our visit to Kontum in January 2019, we spent a few days in Hanoi. Wandering around town, we were surprised to see a Kontum logo on the walls of the National Museum of Vietnam History. Our curiosity drew us into the courtyard of the museum where we met thirty...

    Entrance to the nuns' new premisesAt the end of 2018, we were very worried as we were without news of the nuns following their move to new premises in September. Given this uncertainty, we decided to suspend our bank transfers (school fees, salaries, food...

        From left to right : Sister Innocentia, Sister Anselme-Marie, Sister AnnaEarly September, we received a letter from the nuns explaining their new situation ... Upon the decision of the Bishop, the nuns have had to move to new premises where they...

  In order to please visitors, volunteers of our organization Les Enfants de Kontum, the boarding girls have phonetically learnt some popular French songs  : FRERE JACQUES SUR LE PONT D'AVIGNON AU REVOIR MES AMIS