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Hanoi continues school milk program in new academic year
Anh Kiet 17:38, 2019/08/07
Under the program, families only have to pay 47% of the milk price. Poor, near-poor, ethnic minority students and social policy beneficiaries will drink milk for free.
Hanoi will continue to implement the school milk program at its pre-school education and primary schools in the 2019-2020 academic year, local media quoted Deputy Director of Department of Education and Training Pham Xuan Tien as saying.

At a conference on August 6 on the school milk program, Tien said milk will continue to be supplied to local school children from September 6. The program will end on May 29, 2020, the last day of the school year. 
 
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The deputy director requested district and communal divisions of education and training to conduct inspections of quality of milk supplied at schools to ensure food safety and encourage parents to register their children for the program.

Under the program, families only have to pay 47% of the milk price. Poor, near-poor, ethnic minority students and social policy beneficiaries will drink milk for free, Tien added.

Statistics of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training show that Hanoi has successfully implemented the school milk program in accordance with the Vietnamese government’s decision.

Specifically, by the end of the 2018-2019 school year, 1,039,458 or 87.7% of total preschool and primary students in the city participated in the program.

Vice Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Ngo Van Quy highly valued the school milk program, but added that there remain limitations in the process of implementing the program. 

In order to promote the program and clear the issues hindering its execution, Quy suggested the city’s education sector to enhance communications on nutrition to parents in various forms.

Besides, the sector needs to find measures to encourage students to join the project, with a view to reaching over 90%, Quy stressed.

The school milk program was kicked off at schools in Hanoi on January 2, 2019, and right on the first day, 64% of children at local preschool and primary schools joined the program. After one week, 100% of public preschool and primary schools and 61.8% of private schools registered to join the program, and the rate milk drinking students reached 73%. 

The school milk program was launched nationwide on September 28, 2016. It targets providing all pre-school children and elementary pupils in poor districts with milk until 2020.
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