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Save the Children in collaboration with the Department of Education of Hai Phong northern city organized a communications event to celebrate the World Oral Health Day on March 20.

Save the Children’s program “Improving School Health and Nutrition including Oral Health in Vietnam,” supported by Wrigley Company Foundation, has been implemented in 60 schools in the three cities of Hanoi, Hai Phong and Ho Chi Minh. The program runs from 2011 to 2016.

Addressing a Save the Children’s workshop in Ho Chi Minh City, Minh Trang, a teacher in Vo Gap district, drew attendants’ attention with her own story.

“I had never believed in soft discipline on students. I used to see those naïve faces engulfed in fear,” said Trang, who used to work as a teacher of geography and now serves as the deputy principal at Nguyen Van Troi secondary school. “My students later said the image of me with a long, thick stick had dented in their minds.”

At the seventh month, Giang A Nha is as fit as any other child of his age, with no sign of being a preterm baby. “Without the doctors’ care, he wouldn’t have survived,” said Nha’s grandfather, in Ban Mu commune, Tram Tau district in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai.

Nguyen Van Liet, 24, was born to a poor family in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho.  His parents divorced when he was still in pregnancy and he grew up with a step father and brother.  Dropping out of school in grade 12 when the family could no longer afford his school fee, Liet moved out to live in his brother’s slaughter house, starting to work and earn money.