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This project aims to promote quality early childhood care and education for marginalised children from ethnic minorities and to support them in improving their performance at school.
This project aims to improve the quality of education and nutritional status of ethnic minority children aged between 3 and 15 in the remote provinces of Lai Chau and Phu Tho.
While ethnic minorities represent only around 15 % of the Vietnamese population, they make up almost three quarters of the country's poorest people. Living mainly in isolated rural and mountainous areas, these communities face many obstacles: low secondary school completion rates, inadequate teacher training, degraded school infrastructure and significant nutritional deficiencies.
The aim of the project is to provide an integrated response to these challenges by simultaneously addressing children's participation, the quality of teaching, career guidance and nutrition at school and at home.
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Project objectives
The aim is to promote services and practices that support the holistic development and learning outcomes of children in Vietnam. Focusing primarily on pre-school, primary and secondary school children, the project will develop an effective intervention model in 34 schools - five target schools and 29 satellite schools. The project will involve different stakeholders at district and provincial level to ensure that this successful model can be replicated in other schools during the implementation process and after the end of the project.
Our actions
- Improving the quality of education by increasing children's participation in school
- Improve the quality and effectiveness of teaching in primary and secondary schools by training teachers
- Improving children's skills and career guidance to improve the transition from primary to secondary school and prepare them for their professional future, particularly for girls.
- Improving children's nutrition and health at school and at home
Key figures
children, including 1,418 girls, in pre-school, primary and secondary schools
pre-school, primary and secondary school teachers, including 135 women
head teachers, including 9 women
care providers, including 50 women
Our partners
Canton of Geneva - Pierre and Andrée Haas Foundation
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