Students in District 4 plant trees during the campaign (Source: https://voh.com.vn/) HCM City (VNA) – The Ho Chi Minh Communist YouthUnion of Ho Chi Minh City and the UNICEF in Vietnam have jointly launched a campaigntoenhance the awareness of environmental protection among local children.
Tran Cong Binh, a UNICEF expert for child rights, said thatthe campaign, part of the UNICEF-led Child Friendly Cities Initiative (CFCI), opened a series ofcommunications activities to respond to the World Children’s Day 2020.
Taking place until the end of November and covering 24districts of the city, the campaign focuses on activities to protect theenvironment from negative impacts of climate change and pollution.
During the campaign, children will have chances to joingames on waste sorting, changing waste for trees, and drawing paintings on environmentalprotection.
Exhibitions on environmental protection and climate change willalso be held, along with activities of tree planting, beach cleaning and wasterecycling in Can Gio island district.
Meanwhile, a number of talks on environmental protectionwill be organised in residential areas, together with activities to green upschools, houses and public places.
Tran Thu Ha, Vice Secretary of the city’sHo Chi MinhCommunist Youth Union, said that the campaign aims to encourage children totake actions that suits their ages and capacity to build a green, clean andsafe city.
Children are also expected to become active factors in popularisingthe habit of minimising plastic waste and keeping theenvironment clean, she said./.
VNA
