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Youth-led initiatives on job replacement, income generation, provision of sexual and reproductive health knowledge and life skills for young international migrant workers who returned due to COVID-19 will be implemented in Nghe An, Ha Tinh and Quang Tri provinces by the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, with technical support of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and funds from the Government of Japan.

A playground with hand-on experiences for kids has opened for kids in Ecopark urban township in Van Giang district, Hung Yen province.

Authorities in the central province of Quang Tri have coordinated with local organisations to open free swimming courses for local children in the hope of minimizing child drowning, especially in rural and remote areas.

Thailand’s Ministry of Education will include a test on sex education and life skills in the Ordinary National Educational Test from this year onwards as part of efforts to prevent teenage pregnancy.

Doctor Do Thuy Lan has dedicated her life to helping children with disabilities.

Take more than a year if needed, but get good advice and avoid previous education reform mistakes, NA deputies told the Government on November 2.

Vietnam’s disadvantaged children will be provided with soft skills like communication, leadership, support, and settlement of negative pressure and contradiction through the “Pass It Back” programme.

A seminar to introduce a life skills programme used in preschools and primary schools, called POKI, was held on August 15 in Ho Chi Minh City.

Child sexual abuse has been on the rise across the country, with most incidents remaining unreported, police have said.

Parents scurrying to send their children to many life skills classes blooming in big cities has been a trend that has been picking up lately.

It is high time that Vietnam strengthen education on laws and life skills for young citizens so they have self-restraint in conflicts, psychologists have said.

Investing in the education and health, including sexual and reproductive health, of young people is of utmost importance to Vietnam’s productivity and development in the future.

For the past year, every Saturday morning, Nguyen Thi Hiep from Hai Chau District of Da Nang City takes his son to the class named Hoa Xuong Rong (Cactus flowers).

A training course on life skills education for primary and secondary ethnic minority students opened in northern mountainous Lao Cai province on August 19.