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Save the Children launched a financial education project for students from Can Tho Province in Mekong River Delta last Friday.

 The VND 200 million (US$10,000) project titled “Smart Start for Students” funded by City foundation aim to provide financial management and personal budget monitor skill for students so as to help them control financial risk and use financial services wisely in the future.

 About 600 students from 10 universities and colleges in the city will be benefiting from the project which runs through July 2017.

Nearly 12,000 babies in Vietnam die each year during childbirth or within the first day each year, Save the Children says in a new report released today. The report, Ending Newborn Deaths, revealed that globally 2.2 million children die during childbirth or within a first day of life, half of which could be prevented if the mother and baby had free healthcare and a skilled midwife.

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 has supported more than 2000 poor women in Can Tho City to increase their incomes through a microfinance programme since 2010.

Strong economic growth in Vietnam has brought about an increasing number of economic opportunities that traditionally were unavailable. However, many disadvantaged women entrepreneurs failed to survive the market leading to limited growth and low bargaining power in the marketplace.

Save the Children launched a project “Strengthening the Role of Buddhism Association in Child Protection” in Ho Chi Minh City last week.