Each needy child dwelling in provinces across Vietnam
will receive two boxes of milk a day for two months under an annual campaign to
reduce malnutrition by the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs.
Children in the central
province of Quang Ngai’s Ly Son Island will be the first kids to benefit from
the program, when they get free milk in the first week of the New Year 2012.
The VND7 billion (US$333,000)
campaign, organized by the ministry's National Fund for Vietnamese Children and
Vietnam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company (Vinamilk), will last for one year,
two months in each province.
The average milk consumption
rate in Vietnam last year was 15 liters of milk per capita, which is still much
lower than in other countries in the region.
A recent survey has shown that
one of every three under-five Vietnamese children is stunted, the low
consumption rate of milk is one of the reasons behind this high malnutrition
rate.
This is the fourth consecutive
year that the organizations’ Vuon Cao Vietnam Milk Fund will bring milk to poor
children around the country. Since the program’s inception in 2008, hundreds of
thousands of underprivileged children in Vietnam have been offered free milk.
The campaign has thus far
donated eight million and ten thousand glasses of milk to poor children in
Vietnam, according to organizers.
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