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Save the Children has been organizing a series of training for doctors and nurses from six district level hospitals in Yen Bai, Dac Lac and Ca Mau as part of its plan to set up newborn care units in these hospitals.

The plan aims to provide emergency treament for mothers and newborns with complication during and after birth at first place. Many cases in these hospitals are often transferred to provincial or central hospitals for medical intervention.

Save the Children has provided two trainings on health and nutrition for 360 teachers and school managers from Ha Noi and Hai Phong in March.

The trainings focus on providing health and nutrition information, interactive teaching and learning methods and child focused approach in health and nutrition education for teachers and school managers of 24 primary and secondary schools in the two cities.

In an emergency context, shelter and infrastructure tend to garner a lot of focus from local authorities—as well it should in many cases, as shelter is a basic right—and it was no surprise in Vietnam, experiencing two typhoons before the world’s attention turned to the Philippines in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, that local authorities talked extensively about their struggles to meet all of the shelter and other infrastructure, such as school repairs, needs and demands.  It did not take a lot of prodding on my part, however, for local authorities to talk about their disaster risk reducti