More than 1 million glasses of milk continue to accompany children to welcome the new school year

Right in the first days of the new school year 2023-2024, more than 1 million boxes of Vinamilk milk from the Vietnam Grow Up Milk Fund were given to more than 11,000 disadvantaged children in kindergartens, shelters, and support centers across the country. The program has also completed its goal of giving 1.5 million boxes of milk to children this year.

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In the general atmosphere of the day "All people take children to school", on the morning of September 5, Cao Thanh Kindergarten (Cao Thanh commune, Ung Hoa district, Hanoi city) organized a school festival for children.
This year, the joy of the first day of school for the kindergarten children at Cao Thanh Kindergarten was multiplied with the support of the Vietnam Grow Up Milk Fund. Specifically, all 240 students of the school were given a total of 21,600 Vinamik ADM nutritional milk products by Vinamilk, and will drink milk regularly every day for 3 consecutive months.

Vinamilk representative presented 21,600 boxes of Vinamilk ADM milk to students at Cao Thanh Kindergarten at the opening ceremony of the new school year.

The school principal, Ms. Ngo Thi Hoi, said that Cao Thanh Kindergarten is located in a purely agricultural commune, nearly 40km from the center of Hanoi, so most parents have low incomes and many families are in particularly difficult circumstances. “Drinking milk every day not only helps children supplement the necessary nutrients for their bodies but also helps them develop well intellectually. The Vietnam Grow Up Milk Fund is truly a very meaningful program. Teachers and parents are also very touched by this kindness from Vinamilk,” Ms. Hoi said.

At the Vietnam - Korea Rehabilitation Center (Hanoi), September 5 is also the day many children return to school after 3 months of summer to return to their families. Many children still stay at school with their teachers because this is their home, and their teachers are their fathers and mothers. Therefore, the first day of school for the children is not filled with flags, stages or performances... like other schools. But today, the children still welcome a new school year with joy from the uncles and aunts from the Children's Support Fund (BTTE) and Vinamilk, along with nearly 13,000 boxes of milk given to them.

Children at Cao Thanh Kindergarten eagerly received milk boxes on Back to School Day.

According to Mr. Le Cong Vinh - Director of the Center, the children here are being supported by the city with food costs of 1.76 million VND/month. With this cost, the school can only balance 3 main meals/day, but cannot supplement milk for the children. "With the Vietnam Grow Up Milk Fund program of Vinamilk and the Vietnam BTTE Fund, the children will have an additional source of nutrition from milk, in addition to meals. This is a great encouragement for the children, helping to improve their physical condition and speed up the process of recovering their functions," Mr. Vinh shared.

Fun for every child

In the week before the new school year started, hundreds of other trips of Vinamilk and the Milk Fund also delivered more than one million Vinamilk ADM nutritional milk products to 64 beneficiary locations. From the suburbs to remote islands and mountains, the Milk Fund was present at the schools to join the children in welcoming a new school year full of energy and excitement.

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On behalf of the students of Dong Tien Kindergarten (Dong Tien Commune, Co To District, Quang Ninh Province), Ms. Nguyen Thi Nga - Principal of the school - emotionally shared: "Due to the impact of storms and rain, the high-speed train route connecting Co To Island District and the mainland is temporarily suspended. We were very surprised and touched when Vinamilk decided to rent a wooden boat to transport milk to the children on the first day back to school. This is not only a joy and motivation for teachers and students to try harder in the new school year, but also shows that no matter where they are, Vietnamese children are always loved and given the best things."

The Vietnam Grow Up Milk Fund has turned 16 years old, with more than 500,000 children enjoying more than 42 million nutritional products from Vinamilk for the goal of "Let every child drink milk every day". In 2023, Vinamilk has supported 1.5 million boxes of Vinamilk ADM milk for children across the country.

Teachers and students of Dong Tien Kindergarten (Co To district) happily received milk from the Milk Fund on the opening day of school.

Directly visiting and presenting each box of milk to the children this time, Ms. Nguyen Thi Minh Tam - Director of Vinamilk Hanoi Branch - shared: "The opening day is always a special day for the children with the joy of returning to school, meeting teachers and friends. For children in difficult and special circumstances, I believe that joy will be multiplied when they can feel the love and care of the community".

Ms. Vu Thi Thuy Huyen - Deputy Director of BTTE Vietnam Fund, the unit that has accompanied Vinamilk for the past 16 years in the Milk Fund program - assessed: "In mountainous provinces, remote areas, the task of teachers does not stop at teaching but also has to go to each child's house to mobilize and persuade them to go to school. In many places, when the Milk Fund program was launched, teachers shared with me that students and parents have more motivation to go to class, children enjoy drinking milk, and parents also want their children to be supplemented with more adequate nutrition. These are the great values that the program has reaped over the past 16 years".

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