At the event. Vice State President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh stand at the fifth place from right (Photo: VNA)Quang Nam (VNA) - Vice State President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinhvisited students at the Kim Dong Primary School in the central province ofQuang Nam’s Bac Tra My district on June 1 and presented them with milk boxes asgifts.
Taking place on the occasion of International Children’s Day, the visitmarked the first milk boxes from the national School Milk Project reachingchildren in the province’s mountainous areas.
From June 1, more than 33,000 students in 575 kindergartens and primaryschools across Quang Nam’s six mountainous districts - Bac Tra My, Nam Tra My,Dong Giang, Nam Giang, Tay Giang, and Phuoc Son - will receive a free milk boxevery day at school.
Ho Quang Buu, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, saidthe school milk project in the six districts costs 110 billion VND (4.7 millionUSD).
Quang Nam has close to 362,000 children, Buu said, accounting for morethan 23 percent of its population. The rate of kids with disadvantagedbackgrounds stood at 5.28 percent in 2019.
Vice President Thinh, who is also Chair of the Council of the NationalFund for Vietnamese Children, presented 3 billion VND from the fund to Bac TraMy authorities to support the construction of boarding houses.
The School Milk Project, jointly funded by the Government, parents, andmilk producer Vinamilk, aims to improve the nutritional status of preschool andprimary children through daily milk supplies, cutting malnutrition, raising thestature and physical strength of Vietnamese children, and contributing to thedevelopment of future human resources.
The State and Vinamilk cover 53 percent of the cost, while families cover47 percent. The project covers all costs for poor and ethnic minoritychildren./.
VNA
