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Ho Chi Minh City aims to vaccinate children aged five to 17 against COVID-19 in August in preparation for the next school year.

The Vietnam News Agency has joined hands with the Ho Chi Minh Cadre Academy (HCA) and VPBank Finance Company Limited to build a cultural space named after late President Ho Chi Minh and a playground for children in Nhuan Duc commune, Cu Chi district, Ho Chi Minh City.

The class is an annual project organized by the Hanoi Youth Union, in collaboration with the Culture Palace and Bang Linh Entertainment Joint Stock Company, to create opportunities for children from poor and difficult families to learn swimming.

The third HCM City Book Fair for Children to promote the habit of reading among children and teenagers opened on July 15 at the HCM City Book Pedestrian Street.

The New Zealand Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City and the country’s fruit exporters on July 6 presented 500 fruit boxes for charitable organisations for children and women in the city and Hanoi.

Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan attended a classical music performance programme to raise funds for children with extremely difficult circumstances at Hanoi Opera House on July 6.

Violence against women and children is never acceptable and has to be made visible and reported in protection of the group, emphasised UNICEF Chief Representative in Vietnam Rana Flowers.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA), in collaboration with UN agencies and the Australian Aid, launched a campaign on July 5 to enhance public awareness of women and children protection, spreading the message of zero tolerance for violence against children and women.

The environment education for children, who are more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation than other groups, is considered the key for ensuring a better future of the Earth.

The Health Ministry has allocated an additional over 2.6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to be administered on children aged from five to under 12, according to the ministry.

Various activities and camps in Ho Chi Minh City are bouncing back to entertain and educate children this summer, after a long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The central coastal province of Thanh Hoa is intensifying activities to protect children in response to the action month for children this year.

Several recent surveys on the reading habits of children have shown that children's books by Vietnamese authors have been favoured by both young readers and their parents, in comparison with foreign books.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA), in collaboration with Save the Children International (SCI) and Ho Chi Minh City’s Association of Protection of Child Right, organised a conference on intensifying the dissemination work on child protection and child labour prevention on June 7.

Families play a crucial role in teaching the mother tongue to Vietnamese children abroad, according to Dr. Tran Hong Van from Charles Sturt University of Australia.

Children in Hanoi can watch cartoons free of charge at the Vietnam National Cinema Centre from this summer until the end of the year.

The Action Month for Children, which is taking place in Ho Chi Minh City from June 1-30, aims to raise public awareness about violence against children, and call for greater efforts and actions to address child abuse and violence against children.

Scholarships were presented to children orphaned by COVID-19 in Ho Chi Minh City on June 2 on the occasion of the International Children’s Day (June 1) and the birthday of the Queen of Thailand, Suthida Bajrasudhabimalalakshana (June 3).

The highlight of the event was the introduction and display of 108 traditional Japanese dolls of many sizes and appearances such as girl and boy dolls, 12-zodiac-animal dolls, fairy character dolls...

This year’s Action Month for Children, with the theme of “Joining hands to care for, educate, and protect children”, has begun with a series of activities designed to ease the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on millions of children.