Photos: helping children disabled by Agent Orange

Dang Hong Dan is just three years old but he’s a victim of the Vietnam War. He was born with disabilities because of Agent Orange – a chemical sprayed in the south of the country during the war to destroy crops and forests. Although the war ended almost four decades ago, Agent Orange still contaminates fields and rivers in the Mekong Delta region. It gets into food and drinking water, causing birth defects in children.

Photos: UNICEF Viet Nam\2013\Truong Viet Hung

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Photos: breastfeeding mothers in An Giang

UNICEF is supporting Binh Thanh Dong commune, in the Mekong Delta region of South Viet Nam, to promote breastfeeding to new mothers. The scheme involves health workers at the local hospital and collaborators in the community.

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Photo story on the post-2015 consultations

Asking Young People What is the Future They Want!



On 19 January 2013, in the context of national consultations with Viet Nam's people organised by the United Nations on the future they want post-2015, UNICEF and sister agencies UNODC, UN-Women, UNFPA and UNDP organised a workshop with 35 children and young people. Among them were street children, children with disabilities and lower-secondary school children who all shared their concerns and hopes for Viet Nam after 2015.
Photos: UNICEF Viet Nam\2012\Dinh Hong Anh

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