In the atmosphere of the "National Day of Taking Children to School" - September 5, 9, Vietnam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company (Vinamilk) coordinated with the Vietnam Children's Fund (VNF) to donate nearly 2024 cartons of fresh milk to students according to the 200.000 plan of the Vietnam Grow Up Milk Fund program. On this occasion, a special opening ceremony was held for students in Ba Tri district, Ben Tre province as a meaningful gift to welcome them to school at the beginning of the new school year.
Special opening day
Located far from the city center Ben Tre, Bao Thanh Primary School (Bao Thanh Commune, Ba Tri District, Ben Tre Province) is a school in a remote commune, on the list of 45 extremely disadvantaged communes in coastal and island areas nationwide. Mr. Pham Ngoc Toan - Principal of the school said that in the 2024-2025 school year, the school has 752 students, of which 145 are from poor or near-poor households. Many students have extremely difficult circumstances and may have to stop studying because their parents cannot afford to send them to school.
To encourage and motivate students on the path of pursuing knowledge, Vinamilk and BTTEVN Fund have coordinated to organize a special opening event to welcome the new school year. Not only decorated with flags and flowers more beautifully than every year, the opening ceremony of Bao Thanh Primary School students this year also had the presence of nearly 17.000 boxes of Vinamilk fresh milk from the Vietnam Grow Up Milk Fund (abbreviated as Milk Fund) and many special gifts to welcome the children to school.
A special opening day with lots of joy from the Milk Fund and Vinamilk for Ben Tre students
"Due to difficult economic conditions, most of the students here are much shorter than their peers. The milk source supported by the Milk Fund program is a great encouragement for the students, and we teachers also feel happy with the children's joy. Hopefully, drinking milk regularly will help children supplement the necessary nutrients and through this program, it will also help parents better understand the importance of drinking milk, helping children develop both physically and mentally.", Mr. Toan said.
Representatives of Vinamilk & Vietnam Children's Fund (left) presented a symbolic board of support. More than 135.000 milk boxes for representatives of the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs of Ben Tre province on the occasion of the opening day of school on September 5.
In addition to milk support, Vinamilk also donated the school the Vietnam Rising Bookshelf, with nearly 1.000 books and notebooks, hundreds of learning tools and 5 laptops for students to practice computer science and access the unlimited information and knowledge from the internet. This entire bookshelf comes from the joint contributions of Vinamilk employees, through the internal campaign "Giving new books, welcoming children to school".
Students experience new laptops in Vinamilk's Rising Vietnam bookshelf area
On this occasion, BTTEVN Fund and Vinamilk also presented 30 scholarships to 30 students with difficult circumstances who have overcome difficulties to study well, to encourage them to persevere in going to school. Each gift includes cash and many essential learning tools such as backpacks, notebooks, and Vinamilk water bottles.
30 excellent students of Bao Thanh school have received scholarships. New school year gifts from Vinamilk & Vietnam Children's Fund
In addition, the children also experienced an exciting opening day with interesting activities such as a creative drawing area, dressing up according to their dream career, a game area and quizzes to receive gifts from Vinamilk...
Phan Van Kiet, a student at Bao Thanh Primary School, excitedly shared: “Today is the first time I have attended such a joyful opening ceremony with so many gifts. What I like most is receiving milk, because the milk tastes so good. I also received a new backpack from Vinamilk, from now on I have a new bag and new books to go to school. I am very happy, thank you very much!”
Half a million cartons of milk with you to school
Not only more than 750 students of Bao Thanh Primary School, on the occasion of the new school year this year, more than 2.000 children in difficult circumstances in Ben Tre received more than 135.000 boxes of milk from the Vietnam Grow Up Milk Fund program. In 2024, the Milk Fund program and Vinamilk have donated nearly 490.000 nutritional products to more than 6.700 students in difficult circumstances. Of which, right before the new school year, nearly 200.000 boxes of milk were completed by Vinamilk to many disadvantaged schools in the following provinces/cities: Dien Bien, Hung Yen, Binh Duong, Ben Tre, Can Tho , and Ha Noi.
Speaking at the event, Mr. Do Thanh Tuan - Director of External Relations of Vinamilk - hoped that Vinamilk's support would help children feel the community's concern for their studies and health care, thereby making efforts to rise up and overcome difficulties. "Over the past 17 years, Vinamilk believes that the greatest value that the Vietnam Grow Up Milk Fund has given is the dreams and motivation that urges children - the future generation of the country - to reach higher in the future.", shared Mr. Tuan.
On the opening day, the children participated in many fun and creative activities organized by Vinamilk employees.
According to Mr. Dinh Tien Hai - Director of BTTEVN Fund - although it has been implemented for many years, in every place the Milk Fund stops, there are children who are having a joyful and complete school day for the first time or children who are having the first time drinking milk so freely.
"Since implementing the Vietnam Rising Milk Fund program with Vinamilk, BTTEVN Fund also did not expect the program to go on such a long journey. The more we go, the more we see that there are still many places where children need our attention and care. Hopefully, the program will continue to be maintained for many more years, so that more and more unfortunate children will receive love from society.", Mr. Hai emphasized.
Right in the first class of the new school year, the children were given milk according to the program.
Within the framework of the program, Vinamilk and the Vietnam Children's Fund also visited and presented milk on the first day of the school year to students at the Ben Tre School for Disabled Children (Huu Dinh Commune, Chau Thanh District, Ben Tre Province). The center is nurturing, practicing rehabilitation, teaching culture, and vocational training to about 300 children with hearing loss, visual loss, and intellectual disabilities. This is also the place that has benefited from the Milk Fund for the past 14 years. In 2024 alone, students at the center were supported with more than 23.400 boxes of milk from Vinamilk.
Launched in 2008, the Vietnam Grow Up Milk Fund has been implemented by Vinamilk and the BTTEVN Fund for the past 17 years. To date, this is still one of the largest-scale child nutrition care programs and has been implemented long-term and regularly every year to improve children's health and physical condition through nutrition. It is estimated that the program has donated more than 42 million nutritional products with a total support value of more than VND 200 billion to more than half a million children in difficult circumstances across 63 provinces and cities, regardless of remote areas, islands, or borders./.
Source: https://www.vinamilk.com.vn/vi/tin-tuc-su-kien/2657/gan-200-000-hop-sua-vinamilk-danh-tang-cac-em-hoc-sinh-nhan-ngay-hoi-tuu-truong
