The northern part of Vietnam features an array of colourful rustic hamlets surrounded by rugged mountains and towering terraced rice fields, the emerald stairways that reach the heavens above.
The idea of Tu Thanh Phuong, Principal of the Phuong Do Secondary School in Ha Giang province, for a self-sustaining school has helped hundreds of poor ethnic students continue to fulfill their dream getting an education.
Plan International Vietnam has officially launched a six-month project worth 16 billion VND (682,000 USD) themed "Protecting ethnic minority children from the COVID-19 epidemic".
Vietnam needs new approaches that are designed based on geographic conditions and cultural characteristics of ethnic minority communities in order to address the persistent malnutrition among ethnic minority children, said a report of the World Bank.
A project to improve pre-school and primary education for ethnic minority children in northern and central regions has benefited more than 6,000 children and teachers in Sin Ho district in Lai Chau province and Kon Plong district in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum over the past three years.
A ceremony was held in Ho Chi Minh City on June 15 to mark the 20th anniversary of a fund that provides scholarships to school children of ethnic minority groups, with the participation of Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a plan to mobilise social resources to support children in extremely disadvantaged communes in ethnic minority and mountainous areas.
At least 4,000 ethnic minority children aged three to six have benefited from the pilot of the Emergent Literacy and Math (ELM) toolkit to build foundational reading and math skills.
Self-managed councils of students and children’s clubs have been formed in ten schools in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai from 2015-2018, helping promote children’s participation in improving the learning environment quality.
The LO-ANH Foundation has offered help to nearly 300 children of Xin Cai Secondary School, located in one of the most remote districts in the northern province of Ha Giang.
Communication work is one of the major solutions to prevent malnutrition in children, especially those of ethnic minority groups, a health official said.
Dien Bien has received more than 4.3 billion VND (189,157 USD) sponsored by the Save the Children International organisation to improve educational quality and equality for ethnic minority children.
The Prime Minister has just approved a programme to enhance the training of the Vietnamese language among ethnic minority children for 2016-2020, with an orientation through 2025.
As many as 80 children with cleft lips and palates receive free surgeries under a programme taking place in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak from August 24 to 28.
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