At a glance: Viet Nam
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Water and hygiene facilities change lives for families in rural Viet Nam
DAI PHAC COMMUNE, Viet Nam, 17 January 2007 – During class break, Nguyen Thi Huyen, 10, and her classmates at An Thinh 1 Primary School crowd the small open area outside their new latrine and washing facilities. They wash their hands vigorously, as instructed by the teacher.
Supporting early bilingual education in rural Viet Nam
SUOI GIANG COMMUNE, Viet Nam, 15 January 2007 – She’s only five years old, but Mua Thi Xay is already learning a second language. She is ethnic Hmong, from a community in the mountains of northern Viet Nam. Until now she knew little of her nation’s main language, Vietnamese.
Information a potent weapon in Viet Nam’s fight against bird flu
DAI YEN COMMUNE, Viet Nam, 9 January 2006 – Nguyen Thi Tuyet takes off her straw hat and farming clothes and fills a bowl with chicken feed. She tosses handfuls of seeds to the 100 chickens inside a pen next to her house. Tuyet worries that she might lose her chicken farm if avian influenza returns to her village.
UNICEF and partners work to keep bird flu at bay in Viet Nam
HAY TAY PROVINCE, Viet Nam, 8 January 2007 – Nguyen Thi Tham lives in fear of bird flu. Ms. Nguyen is a poultry farmer in Hay Tay Province, just south of the capital, Hanoi. Her entire farm of 200 chickens was culled during an outbreak of avian influenza in 2005.
Protecting young women from human trafficking in Viet Nam
LANG SON, Viet Nam, 7 December 2006 – Nguyen Thi Phuong cherishes her new role as a mother. At 45, she’s older than most Vietnamese women raising their first child, but that hardly matters.
Healthy-living education builds teens’ confidence across Viet Nam
LANG SON, Viet Nam, 3 November 2006 – Balancing a pair of watering pails with a stick across her shoulders, Ma Thi Nut navigates through a cabbage field, tilting to wet crops on both sides of a narrow path.
Monthly immunization days save lives and build babies’ health
CHIENG KHOA, Viet Nam, 1 February 2006 – It’s the monthly immunization day in Chieng Khoa, a small village in the mountains of north-western Vietnam. Although it’s still early in the morning, numerous mothers clutching babies wait patiently in a queue in front of the health centre.
UNICEF helps keep minority children in school in rural Viet Nam
CHIENG KHOA COMMUNE, Viet Nam, 29 December 2005 – A short five-minute walk is all that separates 8-year-old Sa Thi Tham from her school. It’s a remarkably short distance in a region of rolling green mountains and plunging river valleys in north-western Viet Nam, where many children must travel many kilometres to reach their classes.
Viet Nam: Swimming, a vital life skill for children
DONG THAP PROVINCE, Viet Nam, 8 July 2005 – Not knowing how to swim can cost a child his or her life, especially in Viet Nam. Waterways outnumber roads in Dong Thap Province in the Mekong River Delta of southern Viet Nam, and annual flooding caused by monsoon rains takes a severe toll, particularly on children.
Integrated approach helps Vietnamese children get the best start in life
HANOI, 22 June 2005 – Twenty-nine-year-old Y-Ner lives in the Dac-Blo village of Kon Tum, one of the poorest provinces in Viet Nam’s central highlands. Despite many hardships, her three children are growing up healthy, happy and well-protected, thanks to the UNICEF-supported Integrated Early Childhood Development programme (IECD).
UNICEF Office in Viet Nam launches the first bilingual website – in English and Vietnamese
Viet Nam, 9 December 2004 - To coincide with the launch of the 2005 State of the World’s Children, a brand-new website on UNICEF’s activities in Viet Nam is now available in both English and Vietnamese.
