Vietnam Grow Up Milk Fund: Striving for the mission: 'So that every child can drink milk every day'

Bringing joy to disadvantaged children across the country
The localities chosen by the Vietnam Grow Milk Fund and Vinamilk to donate milk are all places where people's lives still face many difficulties, so nutritional care, especially for children in many areas, is still limited.

Ms. Mai Kieu Lien - Member of the Board of Directors, General Director of Vinamilk Company, personally handed over boxes of delicious and nutritious milk to poor students at the Vietnam Grow Up Milk Fund program in Quang Ninh. Photo: PV

Sharing this difficulty, in 2019 Vinamilk and the Vietnam Grow Up Milk Fund continue their 12th year of donating milk to children, with the desire to bring them the joy of drinking milk and receiving adequate nutritional care. Through that, calling for the community's attention to the comprehensive physical and intellectual development of the country's future generations.

In addition to the delicious glasses of milk that the children will enjoy, at the programs, the children will also receive free health check-ups and nutrition advice from doctors at the Vinamilk Nutrition Consulting Center. The milk giving ceremony truly became a festival for the students with funny clown performances and creative games designed by the Organizing Committee specifically for the children.

At the programs, students received free health check-ups and nutrition advice from doctors of Vinamilk Nutrition Consulting Center. Photo: PV

Wherever the Vietnam Grow Milk Fund chooses to visit, it is filled with joy and emotion. One of the places that can be mentioned is Thai Nguyen province, the first stop of the program in 2019.

Ms. Ma Thi Hong Yen - Principal of Quy Ky Primary School, the school chosen to host the milk donation ceremony for Thai Nguyen children, shared: More than 50% of the school's students are from poor and near-poor households, so many families cannot afford to drink milk every day. Many children are still stunted compared to the physical development standards of the health sector. Therefore, receiving the delicious boxes of fresh milk donated by the Vietnam Grow Up Milk Fund and Vinamilk is a great joy for the school and parents.

“Just looking at the eager faces of the children when participating in this Program is enough to see how happy they are,” Ms. Yen said emotionally. In the mountainous district of Quang Ninh, Mr. Pham Duc Chinh, Principal of Dong Son Primary and Secondary School happily shared: With the meaningful gift from the Milk Fund, teachers and students of the school will certainly have the motivation to teach and learn better, students can cultivate their intelligence and improve their physical strength to absorb knowledge every day.

There are many, many more touching stories like this...

Wherever the Vietnam Grow Up Milk Fund chooses to go, it is filled with joy and emotion. Photo: PV

Ms. Nguyen Thi Hien, Deputy Director of the Children's Support Fund, Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, said: Our country still has many children in special circumstances, poor children who do not receive adequate nutritional care, the rate of children with stunting malnutrition in Vietnam is still very high, ranking 20th in the world and for every 6 children under 5 years old who are malnourished, 1 child is stunted; for every 4 children under 5 years old who are malnourished, 1 child is underweight. Malnutrition limits the physical and intellectual development of children. To solve this problem, the whole society needs to join hands.

Therefore, Ms. Hien highly appreciated Vinamilk's sense of responsibility for the community in accompanying the Vietnam Children's Fund to implement the Vietnam Grow Up Milk Fund program, achieving the goal of having every Vietnamese child drink milk every day as well as community activities.

The program organizers always bring many dynamic playgrounds designed specifically for students to have fun. Photo: PV

Motivation for Vinamilk to strive to fulfill its mission

Ms. Bui Thi Huong, Executive Director of Human Resources - Administration and External Relations of Vinamilk shared: “The excitement and radiance of Thai Nguyen students in general and Quy Ky Primary School in particular is the motivation for Vinamilk and the Vietnam Grow Up Milk Fund to continue striving to fulfill its mission. We will make more efforts so that more children across the country can enjoy nutritious milk and comprehensive nutritional care, for a future generation of Vietnam to reach high and far!”.

Ms. Huong also affirmed: As a leading nutrition company in Vietnam, Vinamilk always cares about community activities, especially children are the target of our primary concern. With the goal of "Let every child drink milk every day", Vinamilk has been implementing the milk donation program continuously for nearly 12 years, all 63 provinces and cities across the country have benefited from this program.

Over the past 12 years, the Vietnam Grow Up Milk Fund and Vinamilk have donated more than 35 million glasses of milk worth VND150 billion to nearly 441,000 disadvantaged children across Vietnam. Photo: PV

Leaders, teachers and parents at schools whose students received milk all share the same wish that their children will drink milk for a long time to help improve their mental and physical health.

35 million glasses of milk over 12 years
The Vietnam Grow Up Milk Fund was established in 2008 under the chairmanship of
Vietnam Children's Fund, under the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs
with the continuous companionship of Vinamilk company with a very noble mission
All in all, it is to ensure the right of Vietnamese children to drink milk every day, so that
I have the conditions to develop comprehensively physically and mentally.
The program has brought millions of warm glasses of milk and love to all provinces.
cities across the country, from Ha Giang - the northernmost point of the country to the southernmost point of the country.
Ca Mau Cape. With 1,631,000 glasses of milk equivalent to 10.5 billion VND that the Fund has given
Nearly 18,000 children from 25 provinces and cities across the country in 2019, the total number of
The milk that the program has given out over the past 12 years amounts to more than 35 million
million glasses of milk, with a total value of 150 billion VND for nearly 441,000 disadvantaged children worldwide.
throughout Vietnam

Most recently, Vinamilk and the Vietnam Grow Up Milk Fund organized
Milk giving ceremony for poor children in Quang Ninh, Thai Nguyen, Vinh Phuc,
Binh Dinh, Quang Nam, Ninh Binh, Lam Dong, Ben Tre, Nghe An, An Giang ...