Lunch for children at Thien An school (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – The Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairsin Ho Chi Minh City in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation(ILO) on June 28 launched a pilot service package designed to reduce childlabour and prevent accident, abuse and violence against children.
The package will provide children at Thien An school for disadvantaged childrenwith daily lunch, health insurance, a library with 500 book titles andextracurricular activities. Besides, the children’s parents will be given vocationaltraining to improve their families’ livelihoods.
According to Vice Director of the municipal Departmentof Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Tran Ngoc Son, the service package isunder a project on technical support to enhance national capacity to preventand reduce child labour in Vietnam.
By giving children better care for their safety and physical and intellectualhealth, the model helps their parents have more time to work to improve theirincome, he said.
The children now spend the entire day at school forstudy instead of leaving school at noon and working in the afternoon as in thepast.
As the project will end in March 2020, he called on support from the localauthorities, sectors and organisations to maintain and effectively carry outthe model.
Hoang Thu Huong, a representative from the ILO, spoke highly of partiesinvolving in taking care of children and preventing child labour, hoping thatThien An school will maintain the model.
On the occasion, many organisations and benefactors presented food to 217disadvantaged parents.-VNA
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