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UNICEF and the business community launch a campaign to promote breastfeeding for female workers
Ho Chi Minh City, 15th May 2018 – UNICEF is partnering with private sector to launch a joint campaign “Sixty minutes working as a mom” to promote breastfeeding at the workplace.  In collaboration with iCare Benefits, the campaign will be rolled out in Pou Yuen Viet Nam, the largest footwear factory in the country employing approximately 74,000 workers, 82 per cent of whom are women.

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UPSHIFT - 21st Century Skills in Viet Nam
Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship in Urban Environments’ – a partnership between UNICEF and Pearson. UPSHIFT is a good example of innovation engagements of UNICEF Vietnam. Through the program during 2015- 2017, the effectiveness of UPSHIFT has been shown to have a high potential for impact on adolescents and urban based issues or concerns especially on marginalised and vulnerable children and young people.

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UNICEF joint mission reaches out to Dien Bien’s ethnic minority children

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