Illustrative image (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a project oncare for comprehensive child development in early years at home and in thecommunity during the 2018-2025 period.
The project aims to ensure physical, mental and spiritualdevelopment of children aged from 0 to 8, and offer them equal access to careservices for all-round development, in order to realise children’s rights andcontribute to national human resources development.
Under the project, 70 percent of children from 0 to 8 yearswill equally access health care, education and protection services, and socialwelfare.
Also, 70 percent of officials working in child-relatedsectors and parents will be equipped with knowledge and skills to supportchildren’s comprehensive development.
Half of centrally-run cities and provinces will set upnetworks of care for comprehensive child development, and pilot the model athome and in the community.
To that end, by 2025, the project will focus oncommunication work to raise public awareness of care for comprehensive childdevelopment in early years.
In Vietnam, closeto 25 percent of children under five years of age suffer from stunting.Approximately 77 percent of preschool age children (aged 3-5) and 13 percent ofkindergarten kids (aged under 3) do not attend any formal pre-learningprogramme.
Every year, about 2,000 children experienceviolence and abuse and 170,000 others are without parental care.-VNA
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