SELF-EDUCATED – REAL EDUCATION

We all do know the importance of education, the importance of knowledge; however, when society is more and more changeable, mankind’s knowledge has been incessantly increased as present; an educational certification can’t make sure that you have got ability and specialty to meet the work’s demand. Self-educated and lifetime education will ensure that you will not be backward in comparison with society, organization and work.

Our project group has been established by the agreement between Hue city People’s Committee and Vietnamese oversea family to provide seed capital to poor people of self-reliance. The CESR’s staffs haven’t originally had the major of credit yet so we have to self-educated to fully widen and improve the knowledge, specialty as well of meeting the work’s demand to well accomplish all task.

Currently, our micro-credit project has effectively operated with more than 15,000 clients for the purpose of doing small business towards self-reliance. In the process of international integration, it is required that CESR have to establish a website (English and Vietnamese) to convey information, to make sure that information will be updated daily in our blog of Vietnamese and English as well; CESR’s staffs have been encouraged to write short reports after finishing the work at community and the feelings of recorded case studies at local community where we are undertaking. Internal newsletters have also been built on the current workforce with 2 times per month as a monthly newspaper of CESR, this is a effectively communication channel between CESR and local government as well as help CESR ‘s staff finalize group activities every 2 weeks and make  the general plan of next period.

In 2008, CESR had received an award of UN-HABITAT even though in 2006, we received the recommended award of this organization, and recently, CESR have just awarded the International Photographic of AFHC (Alliance for Healthy Cities) on September, 2010.

To achieve above results, the CESR’s staff have tried to self-educated and improve skills to meet the work’s demands on following aspects:

- Network management software;
- Webmaster;
- English translator and interpreter;
- Seeking out and implementing small projects for funding relating to clean water, sanitation and environment;
- Exploring art photography;
- Human resource management and coordination of work;
- Supervising of small-scale construction works.
Self-educated and lifetime education is the duty of every people, in CESR, this obligations have been thoroughly grasped and by the way, we are kindly to record some results of the self-educated raising the standard as above.

Phan Van Hai

Translated by Thuy Hang