Action Month for Children 2019 launched in Thanh Hoa
The Action Month for Children 2019 was launched at a ceremony held in the central province of Thanh Hoa on May 25, calling for joint efforts to help poor children and those from ethnic minority groups.
Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung (fourth from left) takes a photo with students in Thanh Hoa (Source: VNA)
Thanh Hoa (VNA) – The Action Month for Children 2019 was launched at aceremony held in the central province of Thanh Hoa on May 25, calling for jointefforts to help poor children and those from ethnic minority groups.
Speaking at the event, Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social AffairsDao Ngoc Dung said the action month is held annually in June to boost the “allpeople care fore, educate and protect children” movement; and encourage agencies,organisations, families and individuals to implement policies, plans andprojects related to children.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said that 2019 is the 30th year Vietnam has implemented the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child andthe 25th year the action month for children has been launched.
However, many people have yet had full and right awareness of 25 basicrights of children, he said.
Therefore, along with organizing movements, it is important to increasethe dissemination of information to helpministries, sectors and people from all walks of life to well fulfill theirresponsibility and duties for child rights.
The Deputy PM advised people to avoid using violence to educatechildren, but listen to their ideas and opinions.
Dam asked ministries, sectors and localities to effectively implementpolicies and programmes for children, and exert efforts to narrow the gaprelated to development opportunities of children in different regions,especially poor and ethnic minority children.
The action month will include various activities, includingcommunication campaigns to raise public awareness of preventing drowning, andviolence and sexual abuse against children, and activities to call on theentire society to join hands to help poor and ethnic minority children, withthe focus on the implementation of a project to mobilize social resources tosupport children living in extremely disadvantageous communes in ethnicminority-inhabited and mountainous areas during the 2019-2025 period.
On this occasion, Deputy PM Dam, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids andSocial Affairs, and Thanh Hoa province granted gifts and scholarships to localpoor children.-VNA
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Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung (fourth from left) takes a photo with students in Thanh Hoa (Source: VNA) 
