Social justice and diaconia

AFESIP also organises occupational training for women. Being a hair stylist is a popular occupation.

AFESIP (Agir Pour les Femmes en Situation Précaire i.e. Action for women in distress) is an international organisation fighting sexual exploitation. The organisation works in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam.

The organisation was founded in 1996 by Somaly Mam from Cambodia. She was sold to sexual slavery in a brothel at an early age. When she grew up, she adopted a life-time mission of helping women and children victimized by human trafickers.

AFESIP-Vietnam was founded in 2001 by Georges Blanchard, a French social worker. The organisation offers rehabilitation and psychological and legal counselling for young women rescued from human trafickers. It has safe houses both in Can Tho and in Ho Chi Minh City.

AAT (Alliance Anti Trafic International - an international alliance against human traficking) is a network founded in conjunction with AFESIP-Vietnam in 2007 to help those who have been hijacked abroad to return to their home countries. AAT works in close co-operation with various organisations, the police, and embassies.

Church World Service was founded in 1946 to be an aid, development and refugee organisation. It has 36 Protestant, Orthodox, and Anglican member churches in the USA. CWS works with local organisations to help the most needy in over 80 countries.

CWS began to work among the refugees in Vietnam in 1954. Today, besides having projects which improve health services, access to water, the nutrition of children, and the education of ethnic minorities, CWS Vietnam is also involved in disaster work.

CWS works in co-operation with kindergartens, primary schools, boarding schools, health centres, and hospitals. FELM supports CWS in the region of Muong Te in the province of Lai Chau in Northern Vietnam.

FELM has been supporting both AFESIP-Vietnam and CWS since the beginning of 2008.

FELM has no employees of its own in Vietnam.