TH Group pioneers in the field of school health

With the message “Safe school, healthy students”, for the first time in Vietnam, a large-scale, practical and meaningful program on school health has been implemented. The program identifies 5 groups of content and 7 groups of solutions on caring for, protecting and managing student health; physical education and school sports activities; organizing school meals, ensuring proper nutrition; promoting the application of information technology in management, operation, monitoring, statistics, reporting; propaganda and education on school health in schools.

The announcement of the School Health Program for the 2021-2025 period demonstrates the nation's determination and aspiration to care for future generations.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the launching ceremony of the School Health Program 2021-2025. Photo: VNA

Accompanying the School Health Program 2021 - 2025 at the event, TH Group and Founder Thai Huong support the program's orientation to promote education, care, protection and health management of children and students in preschools, general education institutions, and specialized schools to ensure comprehensive physical and mental development for students.

“The School Health Program 2021-2025 is an all-encompassing policy, an important milestone demonstrating determination to act, building a foundation for sustainable development, contributing to bringing positive changes to future generations,” Ms. Thai Huong shared.

The major goals and main pillars of the School Health Program are also the core values ​​that TH Group has built and nurtured, expressed through its mission and vision: “People are the subject of society, the resource that determines the development of the country. The physical, mental and spiritual development of each individual is very important. A nation is only strong when people are fully developed in both physical and mental strength, in which the prerequisite for this development is not only essential nutrition such as rice, rice, food but also a sustainable health care regime. Investing in physical and mental development is developing the race of the nation, investing in sustainable development of national strategy”.

Ms. Thai Huong shared that the major goals of the School Health Program are consistent with the core values ​​that TH Group has built and nurtured, and that is the reason why TH always accompanies the Program.

The School Health Program for the period 2021 - 2025 was announced with the support of TH Group in particular, organizations and businesses in general, expecting to bring positive changes "For a strong Vietnam, For a Vietnamese stature".

According to Ms. Thai Huong: "In order for the school health sector to achieve success, in addition to the participation and efforts of the Government and ministries, it is extremely important to socialize and call on businesses in the food industry to participate."

As a business in the food industry, carrying the aspiration "For Vietnamese stature", TH has been very persistent in many activities to take care of school health.

Specifically, in September 2014, in Hanoi, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education and Training, and TH Group jointly launched the program “Joining hands for Vietnamese stature”. This is the first national activity to strongly call for social resources to participate in the School Milk Project – a part of Project 641 – the overall project to develop physical strength and stature of Vietnamese people in the period 2011 – 2030, developing the School Milk model in Nghe An.

TH is a pioneer in the national School Milk program.

Previously, from July 2013 to June 2014, TH Group and the National Institute of Nutrition conducted a pilot study on community intervention for the product UHT Fresh Milk - School Milk Sweetened, along with organizing dozens of meetings and seminars to discuss milk standards with leading nutrition experts at home and abroad and consult with ministries and sectors to have the best quality and the most appropriate approach to school nutrition.

With the pioneering role of TH Group in the National School Milk Program from 2016 to present, the program has achieved remarkable results. The most important point is that fresh milk brought to schools must have standards, regulations, and scientific nutritional research suitable for children's absorption, contributing to reducing the situation of bringing milk of unknown origin and not ensuring food safety into schools.

The School Meals and Physical Activity Enhancement Model in Preschools and Primary Schools started in the 2020-2021 school year and is being replicated in many provinces and cities across the country.

“The model has had clear results as summarized in the project, with a clear control group. This is a scientific and practical basis for the development and standardization of school nutrition and national policies, and is the foundation for building the School Nutrition Law in the coming time. That is the expectation that we hope for and propose to the Government,” the Founder of TH Group proposed at the Announcement Ceremony of the School Health Program 2021-2025.

TH Group, as a pioneer, has also accompanied in the field of school health with other outstanding activities such as: The program to build 1,000 standard toilets for schools in remote areas; Sponsoring the installation of 2,600 hand washing instruction boards at schools to prevent the Coivd-19 epidemic; Communication on drowning prevention - Happy and healthy summer, building schools in mountainous areas, accompanying the Government and Vietnam Television through the program "For Vietnamese Stature" broadcast in prime time right after the 7pm VTV1 news program from 2016 to present, with the purpose of raising awareness of school health for the whole population.