The package will provide children at Thien An school for disadvantaged children with daily lunch, health insurance, a library with 500 book copies and extracurricular activities. Besides, the children’s parents will be given vocational training to improve their families’ livelihoods.

According to Vice Director of the municipal Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs Tran Ngoc Son, the service package is under a project on technical support to enhance national capacity to prevent and reduce child labor in Vietnam.

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Lunch for children at Thien An school

By giving children better care for their safety and physical and intellectual health, the model helps their parents have more time to work to improve their income, he said.

The children now spend the entire day at school for study instead of leaving school at noon and working in the afternoon as in the past.

As the project will end in March 2020, he called on support from the local authorities, sectors and organizations to maintain and effectively carry out the model.

Hoang Thu Huong, a representative from the ILO, spoke highly of parties involving in taking care of children and preventing child labor, hoping that Thien An school will maintain the model.

On the occasion, many organizations and benefactors presented food to 217 disadvantaged parents.

Source: VNA