• Blue Dragon is a young entrepreneurial charity working closely with the most marginalized children in Vietnam.

• Blue Dragon is the only charity that works with street children in Hanoi.

• Blue Dragon employs child rights lawyers and offers a safe haven drop-in centre for gang members and other victims.

• Intelligently using the unique and cross-cultural power of sports, Blue Dragon organises regular football games to uphold the bond with the children it helps and to recruit new children away from the streets.

• In addition, Blue Dragon fights domestic trafficking – a problem overlooked by trafficking NGOs which typically have a remit to focus only on international trafficking.

• Blue Dragon has sent almost 1,000 children from the streets back to school and in 2009 helped 839 children at an average cost of $93 average per direct and indirect beneficiary.