Can Tho, Save the Children join hands to protect, care for children
The People’s Committee of Can Tho city had a working session with Save the Children on July 17 to look into cooperation programmes, especially activities targeting disadvantaged children.
Can Tho (VNA) – The People’s Committee of Can Thocity had a working session with Save the Children on July 17 to look intocooperation programmes, especially activities targeting disadvantaged children.
Country Director of Save the Children DraganaStrinic said her organisation highly values efforts by relevant agencies, communitiesand families in the Mekong Delta city to give local children a healthy, safe,and friendly environment to grow up.
She said she hopes Can Tho will stand side byside with her organisation in caring for children’s material and spiritual lifeand creating the best possible conditions for all children, especially those livingin disadvantaged circumstances, to have a better life.
From now to 2020, Save the Children will workwith local relevant agencies and media outlets to organise communicationcampaigns raising public awareness of child protection.
It will coordinate with the municipal Departmentof Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs to organise training courses andworkshops on child care and protection to improve officials and social workers’capacity in this field.
Notably, it will assist the city in building andcalling for investment in child care models targeting less privileged andvulnerable groups such as street children, children prone to HIV infection andabused children.
Additionally, the organisation will coordinatewith the local educational sector to improve disadvantaged and ethnic minoritychildren’s reading and writing skills through learning toolkits with proveneffectiveness.
Save the Children also called on municipalauthorities to help deal with violence and abuse cases against children whileprotecting and giving support to children victims.
Vice Chairman of the municipal People’sCommittee Truong Quang Hoai Nam welcomed Strinic’s proposal, affirming that CanTho will provide favourable conditions for bilateral cooperation programmes.
He stressed his city prioritises protectingchildren from abuse and supporting those with disadvantages so that every childhas the best opportunities to develop. As a driving force of the Mekong Delta,Can Tho wants to expand these cooperation programmes to the whole region so asto improve local child care and protection.-VNA
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