Community and Family Services International
Short Name
CFSI
Address Line 1
Room 1105, 11th Floor
Address Line 2
Viglacera Building
Street - Number and Name
No.1 Thang Long Blvd, Me Tri, Tu Liem
District
City
Ha Noi
Province – Vietnam
Phone
+632 908897144
Fax
+632 5512225
Email Address
Contact Person – Vietnam
Ms. Luwalhati F. Pablo - Director for Vietnam Programme
Vietnam Website
International Website
International Headquarters
Mission Statement
Community and Family Services International (CFSI) is a humanitarian organization committed to peace and social development, with a particular interest in the psychosocial dimension. The purpose of CFSI is rebuilding lives, and its mission is to vigorously protect and promote human security – specifically, the lives, well-being, and dignity of people uprooted by persecution, armed conflict, disasters, and other exceptionally difficult circumstances.
History of operations in Vietnam
Much of the past work involved helping to build the social service capacity of the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) through the provision of social work education at, and through, the College of Labour and Social Affairs (COLSA) in Hanoi, which is now the University of Labour and Social Affairs. CFSI activity involved providing social work training and consultation services as well as networking. This work was funded, in part, through two different cooperative agreements with the United Nations Volunteers (UNV). Earlier CFSI efforts in Viet Nam were supported primarily by Radda Barnen (Save the Children Federation) Sweden. The purpose of this cooperation was to build the capacity of five emerging nongovernmental organizations during a time of rapid socio-political change in Viet Nam. CFSI activity then included facilitating organizational assessments, providing training and consultation services, and helping to build links between these organizations and others in South East Asia. This work was carried out in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. All of this activity built on CFSI's many years of experience with refugees and asylum seekers from Viet Nam in various parts of East Asia, particularly Hong Kong and the Philippines. The impetus was two-fold: (1) fostering the repatriation of those Vietnamese denied refugee status in first asylum countries in East Asia and (2) promoting the well-being of children in Viet Nam in exceptionally difficult circumstances and in need of special protection.