Health & Nutrition

The children born into ethnic minority groups are three times likely to die than those of Kinh majority group. There are many factors that cause the higher mortality rate among children under five in ethnic minority groups. Among them is the lack of trained doctors and health workers for mothers and children in remote mountainous villages.

The 2014 Breastfeeding Week in Vietnam will be kicked off  with the show of more than 100 pictures capturing moments of mothers breastfeeding through the country. The show is co-organised by Alive&Thrive Programme-Save the Children consortium.

The photos were taken by professional and amateur photographers from every walks of life in the mountainous villages, on the streets of big cities, in rural communities and in communal centres.

The pictures will be displayed in six locations in Hanoi from 1st to 8th August.

Save the Children provided a week-long training on medical teaching system - SCORPIO- for 15 top obstetricians and paediatricians from Yen Bai, Dac Lac and Ca Mau provinces.

Save the Children organized a series of information education communication activities to increase the awareness of nutrition and hygienic lifestyle for children and parents from two remote mountainous districts of Bao Yen and Van Ban, Lao Cai last weekend.

The event is a part of the organization’s five-year development programme which aims to help disadvantaged children from poor communities in densely ethnic minority population areas have access to health care, nutrition improvement, quality education and adolescent development services.

Vi Thi Dong, a 16-month-old baby lives with her parents and older sister in the mountainous district of Thuong Xuan in Thanh Hoa province, home to many ethnic groups. For three years, her parents have been building a simple house for the family at the end of a small dirt road two kilometers from the health center. Traveling on this road is difficult when it rains.