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Save the Children provided 500 households kits, 500 hygiene kits and 500 education kits for children and families in two communes in Nghĩa Hành District of Quảng Ngãi Province affected by the flood that hit the southern central part of Viet Nam late November.

 The distribution is a part of the aid agency’s relief programme in the southern central part in the next three months.

Ho A Dua is the third child of a H’mong family in Lang Manh village on the top of a mountain in Van Chan district of Yen Bai province.

Like the other villagers, Ho A Dua’s parents don’t speak the popular language -Vietnamese - and they live separately from the rest of the world.  From the village to the nearest town, it takes them a day walking through a wood route then on a long zigzagging bumpy and slippery track to trade their collected /or farming items for basic goods. In most of their life time, they live on sufficient supply. Education is therefore neglected.

“It was an intervention that would bring some change in my life,” said Ms. Le Thi Thanh Hang, a primary teacher from Krong Klang primary school in Quang Tri province. She left the comforts of the city and travelled to the remote mountainous areas of Vietnam with the aim of teaching children from poor and vulnerable families of ethnic minority group.

Vietnam has gained a huge achievement in letting mothers stay at home 6 months after delivery for exclusive breastfeeding.