Encourage and inspire orphans and disabled children to be confident, courageous, and self-reliant.

On the afternoon of May 30, in Hanoi, on the occasion of International Children's Day June 1 and the Month of Action for Children 2023, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited and presented gifts to teachers and students with special circumstances at Hermann Gmeiner Private High School and the Center for Supporting the Development of InclusiveEducation under the Central Pedagogical College.

Building a healthy and suitable educational and training environment and ecosystem

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited teachers and students with special circumstances at Hermann Gmeiner Private High School.

The Prime Minister expressed his joy and emotion at visiting the two schools, listening to the teachers' speeches, the students' sharing, and enjoying the artistic performances that showed the children's efforts and creativity, on the occasion of International Children's Day June 1 - a festival for children around the world and in preparation for the Month of Action for Children in 2023.

The Prime Minister was pleased to know that, in recent years, despite many difficulties in terms of facilities and teaching equipment, teachers and students at the two schools have tried their best to overcome difficulties and make efforts every day to teach well and study well.

In particular, the Prime Minister expressed his gratitude and admiration for the teachers, staff and employees of the two schools who over the years have always been persistent, tolerant, forgiving, sympathetic and patient, not only teaching and imparting knowledge, but also truly becoming fathers and mothers who always care for, advise, comfort, encourage and share the difficulties and disadvantages of orphans and disabled children, with boundless love for them, considering them as relatives and blood relatives.

The Prime Minister discussed and encouraged the teaching staff of Hermann Gmener Private High School.

The Prime Minister also expressed his gratitude, appreciation and understanding for the efforts of the students, who with their will and determination, spirit and responsibility have overcome difficulties; many students have grown up, integrated into the community, not only taking care of their own lives and their families but also making positive contributions to society.

According to Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, the new development stage poses many new difficulties and challenges for the work of children in general and education of children with disabilities in particular. Barriers to access to equal, quality education for children with disabilities and children in special circumstances need to be further addressed and resolved.

The Prime Minister emphasized the need to build a healthy educational environment and ecosystem that is suitable for the conditions and circumstances of the children, to care for and educate them to develop comprehensively in terms of physical strength, qualifications, ethics, aesthetics, etc., especially to encourage, inspire, and motivate them to be confident, courageous, self-reliant, and have the desire to live and contribute.

The Prime Minister presented gifts to students of Hermann Gmener Private High School.

Overcoming the situation of parents having to queue up to buy application forms

Also in the coming time, the Prime Minister noted a number of key points, first of all continuing to perfect institutions, mechanisms and policies in the spirit of education and training being the top national policy; arranging, mobilizing and effectively using all resources; effectively implementing mechanisms and policies on education, protection and care of children in general, and children with disabilities and those in special circumstances in particular.

In particular, focusing on effectively solving a number of problems, such as the lack of educational facilities, especially in big cities and industrial zones; teachers quitting their jobs, lack of preschool and primary school teachers; the phenomenon of teachers having inappropriate behavior, violence, and abuse... towards children.

Along with that, it is necessary to overcome the situation of parents having to queue up to buy admission documents for their children to public schools, key schools in the first grades...; the situation of "both surplus and shortage" of textbooks, temporary schools, remote school locations, difficult living, teaching and learning conditions for teachers and students in remote, border and island areas; ensuring toilets, clean water, nutrition and food safety in school kitchens.

The Prime Minister visited the art class of deaf students at the Central Pedagogical College.

The Prime Minister also noted that it is necessary to prevent, promptly detect, and strictly handle child abuse, school violence, and discrimination; strengthen education for children in life skills, equip them with the ability to protect themselves from dangers such as school drugs, drowning, violent games, fire prevention skills, and injury accidents.

Overcoming the lack of safe and useful entertainment venues, especially during the summer, to keep children away from electronic devices, thereby preventing harmful and unhealthy information on the internet and foreign cultures that have a great impact on children's psychology.

The Prime Minister requested to promote the effective implementation of policies and guidelines on people with disabilities, including children with disabilities and students with disabilities. Promulgate plans for a system of specialized educational facilities for people with disabilities and a system of centers to support the development of inclusive education. Develop solutions to improve facilities, specific and appropriate regimes and policies for teachers of specialized schools.

Work by deaf students of the art department of the Central Pedagogical College presented to Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

The Prime Minister assigned local authorities at all levels to promote public-private partnerships, attract social resources to invest in facilities and specialized teaching and learning equipment such as Braille, devices to support hearing impairment, visual impairment, autism, intellectual disabilities, etc. for students. Continue to pay attention to fully implementing policies for students in special circumstances.

Strengthen propaganda, education, and appeal for responsibility and concern from each individual, each family, each community, philanthropists, and kind-hearted people... in protecting and caring for children, especially children in special circumstances and at high risk of harm, so that unfortunate and heartbreaking cases will gradually decrease and no longer occur.

The Prime Minister requested the Ministry of Education and Training and other ministries and sectors to summarize the model, research and develop the Center for Supporting the Development of Inclusive Education under the Central Pedagogical College to become strong, with the role of leading the system of other centers supporting the development of inclusive education in localities.

Ministries, sectors and localities must consider the care and protection of people with disabilities and the disadvantaged, including children in special circumstances and children with disabilities, as an important task, in the spirit of "no one is left behind"...

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