We've started our volunteer placement in Hanoi, Vietnam teaching English to a group of children from some of the most disadvantaged parts of this city. The children in the photo all look about 10-12 years old, but they are actually all between 12-16. Small physical stature is just one of the many effects of undernutrition. One of the children in this photo works from 10pm - 7am and comes to our class without having slept. Another child doesn't always come to class because she has to collect rubbish for which she earns about 70 Australian cents a day. The children come to our school for reasons such as not being able to afford schooling or not being able to enrol into mainstream school due to not having identifying information. Some of the children's births have not been registered or their families are illegal immigrants from rural areas. The work has been challenging and the kids are pretty cool. We have five more weeks here.
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