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Coca Cola brings clean water to community

Coca-Cola Vietnam has announced it will provide 6 billion VND (280,000 USD) for “Clean water for the community” projects in Vietnam next year.
Coca-Cola Vietnam has announced it will provide 6 billion VND (280,000USD) for “Clean water for the community” projects in Vietnam nextyear.

The projects will be carried out incollaboration with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme(UN-HABITAT) and the Center for Research Family Health and Community(CEFACOM).

Of the total, 3.2 billion VND will beprovided for UN-HABITAT to build a pipeline to bring water to poorhouseholds in three sub-urban communes of Khanh Hoa province. About3,900 people are expected to benefit from this project.

The remaining 2.8 billion VND will be granted to CEFACOM to carry out aproject to bring clean water to more than 4,500 people in Hanoi , DaNang and Ho Chi Minh City .

In addition, Coca-Colawill coordinate with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in restoringthe ecology of Dong Thap Muoi submerged areas in the Tram Chim NationalPark and implementing a climate change adaptation project in Ben Treprovince with a total investment of 24 billion VND./.
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