Education for Children with Disabilities
Children with disabilities are too often the first to be left out of school entirely. Entraide Asia backs partners that build classrooms — and communities — around them instead.
Access is a building problem before it's a curriculum problem
In much of Southeast Asia, a child with a physical disability can be excluded from school simply because the building itself — stairs, narrow doorways, no accessible toilet — makes attending impossible, regardless of how willing a school is to enroll them. Add the cost of therapy or specialized equipment, and many families are left to educate a disabled child at home, or not at all.
Entraide Asia supports partners who tackle both problems at once: physical spaces designed for wheelchair access from the ground up, and the medical and vocational support that lets children and young adults with disabilities build a genuinely independent life.
What inclusive education looks like in practice
Accessible Classrooms
Support for schools and centers built or adapted for wheelchair access, so students with physical disabilities attend class alongside their peers rather than in a separate facility.
Therapy & Medical Care
Physiotherapy and on-site medical follow-up that help residents regain mobility and independence rather than depending on year-round nursing care.
Housing for Those With Nowhere Else
Safe, family-style housing for orphaned or abandoned children and adults with disabilities who would otherwise have no shelter at all.
Mixed-Ability Community
Programs designed so able-bodied and disabled residents, children and adults, live and learn together rather than in separate tracks.
Residents at Maison Chance, Vietnam, where able-bodied and disabled children and adults live together as one household.
Maison Chance, Vietnam
Founded in 1993 in Ho Chi Minh City, Maison Chance now supports several hundred people across four sites, including Village Chance — a purpose-built community with an accessible national-curriculum primary school, a rehabilitation pool, and housing designed so every building can be reached without a single step.
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Funding the details that make inclusion possible
Entraide Asia's support here typically covers infrastructure improvements — ramps, accessible fixtures, classroom adaptations — and costs that would otherwise compete with a family's ability to keep a child in school or a resident in rehabilitation. Christophe visits these centers directly to see where support is genuinely needed.