Belgium’s Queen Mathilde, who’s Honorary President of UNICEF Belgium, visits Lao Cai province. (Picture: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Belgium’s Queen Mathilde, who’s
Honorary President of UNICEF Belgium, wrapped up her three-day go to to Vietnam, which highlighted the Southeast Asian nation’s important achievements in direction of realising baby rights as
effectively as the important thing challenges essentially the most weak kids nonetheless face.
UNICEF Vietnam mentioned in a press launch on Might 11 that in her go to, Queen Mathilde witnessed how UNICEF Vietnam
helps the Authorities to shut fairness gaps and develop alternatives for the
most weak kids. She additionally interacted with kids, academics, moms
and fathers, well being staff and Authorities officers, studying first-hand about
Vietnam’s progress for each baby.
“I’ve witnessed Vietnam’s progress in direction of making certain
its kids are wholesome, protected, educated, protected and empowered to succeed in
their full potential,” she remarked. “There are nonetheless many challenges, however this
go to has reaffirmed for me that there are modern and artistic approaches
being designed and examined that tremendously improve the alternatives and enhance
the wellbeing of youngsters throughout this nation”.
At her conferences with President Vo Van Thuong and
later, the Minister of Schooling and Coaching Nguyen Kim Son, the Queen
referred to Vietnam’s achievements and learnt about nationwide efforts to deal with
kids’s points working carefully with UNICEF.
She additionally recognised that this 12 months marks 50 years of
shut collaboration between Vietnam and Belgium, “a chance for
strengthening the longstanding ties of friendship and cooperation between the
two nations.”
Following these discussions, she travelled to the
northern mountainous province of Lao Cai, the place she witnessed new approaches
piloted by the Ministry of Schooling and Coaching, with UNICEF help, to
enhance the standard of studying and digital literacy among the many youngest ethnic
minority women and boys.
The Queen noticed how Augmented Digital Actuality (AVR)
is getting used to nurture curiosity, joyful studying and transferable expertise for
preschool college students. This pilot programme is closing the digital divide for
kids in distant, mountainous areas and making certain that ethnic minority
kids, who’re least more likely to full main and secondary college, get the
very best begin to their schooling.
She additionally visited a community-based vitamin membership,
the place she met moms studying to raised use native merchandise to organize
nutritious meals for his or her households, significantly their younger kids. The
golf equipment, initially launched with UNICEF help, are an instance of the place confirmed
approaches are examined and scaled up by Authorities to succeed in much more kids.
In Lao Cai, the native well being authorities have adopted this strategy as a component
of their efforts to scale back malnutrition charges in Lao Cai province in a context
the place baby stunting charges attain over 37%.
On her final day in Vietnam, the Queen sat with a bunch
of adolescents to speak about their considerations and psychological wellbeing. She was
happy to notice the work underway to advertise optimistic psychological well being by way of
actions that assist kids and adolescents to undertake and keep wholesome
life, encouraging UNICEF and its companions to extend efforts to
strengthen service provision, together with by growing price range allocation for
psychological well being, integrating psychological well being into all social sectors, and enhancing
referral programs at health-care services, colleges and social welfare items./.