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The Morning Star Center is the creditable organization that many international students and volunteer choose as a place for them to carry out their volunteer activities, internship programs, research activities and to share experience; to get training and enhance their competence. The domestic and international volunteer organizations also highly evaluated Morning Star Center and chose the center to send their international students to implement their internship programs. 

  In the afternoon of 14th September 2016, Morning Star Center and students from National university of Economy and the volunteer group of Hai Duong fellow-townsmen co-held an art performance program for the children with ID and autism of the center.

On the occasion of the traditional mid-autumn festival, Nhi Dong newspaper in partnership with the agency of Central committee of Hochiminh communist youth union and Vietnam exhibition center for art and culture held a charity program named “ dreams in the mid-autumn night festival” for the disabled children needy students in Hanoi. This was the opening program of the festival that was full of special activities bearing deep national identity. The program also created an attractive playground of art and culture for small children. 

On the occasion of upcoming mid-autumn festival, Morning Star Center organized a picnic for the children with mental retardation and autism to visit museum, park, leisure center. Especially, the center  provided lessons of living skills with the topic of making moon cake to enrich the experience for children at the center.

On 30th August 2016, Morning Star Center and the family joyfully held a farewell party for Hai Chuong to leave the center and attend a mainstream kinder garden after 6 months of successful intervention. He was sent to Morning Star center when he was 3.5 years old after diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder.  

On the occasion of Action month for children in 2016 and welcoming a new academic year 2016-2017 and marking 23th year of establishment

Recognizing the importance of music therapy for autistic children, the Morning Star Center held a training course for staffs on music therapy so that the teachers could grasp necessary skills of this therapy. The training course was instructed by Mrs. Jodi Pafford, an American expert from GVI organization. 

Previously, in 2012, the center welcomed Mrs. Bethsmat, the expert of therapy activities from United Kingdom in 2014 working as a volunteer for one year and Mrs. Madeline Entwistle, the expert of therapy activities from Australia working as a volunteer for 10 months. The two therapists trained the staffs about the therapy activities and relating games so that the teacher could combine the activities of learning with playing, giving children many opportunities to discover the surrounding world and reduce their distraction.