Tens of thousands of children participate in drawing vaccine heroes with emotional messages

On the morning of June 1, International Children's Day, the VNVC Vaccination Center System held a closing ceremony and awarded prizes for the contest "I draw a vaccination hero with VNVC" season 1 at 4 locations in Hanoi, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City, Can Tho, where there were special prizes. The remaining prizes were awarded to children at VNVC Vaccination Centers nationwide or gifts were sent to the address registered by the contestants.

Little Tran Tung Linh Chau won the gold prize in the 6-10 age group at the award ceremony at VNVC Hoang Van Thu (HCMC).

After 3 months of launching, the contest received nearly 10,000 drawings from children aged 3-16 across the country online and in person at nearly 200 VNVC vaccination centers.

The contest also reached nearly 200 schools at all levels nationwide with many diverse activities such as consulting on vaccination knowledge, painting workshops at schools. In particular, through the activities, VNVC gave away more than 20,000 doses of high-quality vaccines for free to children across the country. The contest ended with nearly 10,000 prizes awarded with a total value of nearly 2 billion VND.

VNVC has organized hundreds of vaccine consultation sessions and painting workshops about "vaccination heroes" to raise awareness of vaccine protection at schools nationwide.

Not only is it a community activity that is widely participated in by children, according to the artists who are members of the jury, "I draw a heroic vaccination hero with VNVC" is a successful drawing contest not only with a large number of entries but also with an impressive quality of entries. Many entries are truly works of art with high aesthetic and meaningful value.

"I was very surprised by the paintings. Although they were very young, the children clearly expressed their feelings, stories, personalities and souls through each stroke. The sadness, pain and loss caused by the epidemic or the joy and happiness of defeating the virus and becoming heroes to protect the community through the children's eyes were all extremely vivid and lovely," shared artist Vu Cong Dien, a member of the jury.

The painting titled "With VNVC say no to diseases" by Nguyen Tran Khanh Thy (13 years old) won the special prize in the community group competition.

Attending the award ceremony, Mr. Nguyen Luong Ngoc, leader of the Saigon Xanh group with nearly 2,000 volunteers who are carrying out activities of collecting garbage and cleaning polluted canals in Ho Chi Minh City, said that the group had recently been awarded a very useful "armor" of vaccines by VNVC to protect members from dangerous infectious diseases that can be contracted when working in toxic and polluted environments. Since then, members have also been more aware of the need to proactively get vaccinated to protect their own health first, then protect and do good things for the community.

Winning the Gold Prize in the community category, Lo Ngoc Bao Tran (11 years old, Quy Chau district, Nghe An province) shared that her drawing was inspired by the time Thai ethnic people in her village were vaccinated against Covid-19 by medical staff. Tran hopes that she, her friends and everyone will be fully vaccinated, and that vaccination points will be closer to the village.

The "work" of Lo Ngoc Bao Tran (11 years old) - a Thai ethnic child, caused strong emotions with the message "I hope all ethnic children are fully vaccinated to protect their health"

Mr. Lo Van Thu, Tran's grandfather, also said that where he lives, many people are afraid to travel far and refuse to get vaccinated, or some people have died of rabies because they did not get vaccinated. Therefore, through the contest, he hopes that a vaccination center like VNVC will soon be closer to his village.

The painting titled "Thank you, VNVC doctor" by Le Bao Nguyen (4 years old) won the Gold Prize in the VNVC Customer group.

Accompanying her child in the vaccine hero drawing contest, Ms. Huynh Thi Nu, mother of Huynh Phuc An (5 years old, living in Ho Chi Minh City) assessed the contest as a useful playground, helping children to be proactive in learning knowledge and thereby understand the importance of vaccines. The child is very cooperative and braver when getting vaccinated.

Baby Huynh Phuc An (5 years old) sends a message wishing all children in the world to live happily, fully vaccinated to be healthy.

The painting "Join hands to protect the earth, protect the health of the world's children with vaccines" by Phuc An (5 years old) was awarded the Gold Prize, the plaque for VNVC customers. Phuc An's mother said that he spent 5 hours to complete the painting.

From May 30, the VNVC vaccination center system officially launched the program "Vaccination to welcome summer - Golden fortune for good health" with many exciting and attractive activities such as photo contest, writing review, lucky draw activities to win gold and thousands of valuable gifts at VNVC vaccination centers nationwide.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/hang-chuc-nghin-tre-em-tham-gia-ve-dung-si-vac-xin-voi-thong-diep-xuc-dong-185240601143443854.htm