The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) will continue to supportdisadvantaged children in the central province of Ninh Thuan, UNICEFVietnam Representative Lotta Sylwander said while visiting the provinceon February 13.

The fields of assistance includebilingual education for ethnic minority children, fresh water, nutritionand care for mothers and children, she said.

At theworking session with the provincial authorities, the official spokehighly of Ninh Thuan’s achievements in developing a socio-economicnetwork, especially in mother and child healthcare.

UNICEF hopes the province pays more attention to providing fresh waterand nutrition for children and the development of bilingual educationfor Cham and Raglai ethnic children, she said.

Lotta Sylwander expressed her belief that the province will besuccessful in several aspects it has committed, especially thoserelating to children.

Deputy Chairman of thePeople’s Committee Vo Dai recognised UNICEF’s support in general, andLotta Sylwander’s devotion to Ninh Thuan province in particular.

Dai informed his guest that the province approved a project to helplocalities which teach Cham-Vietnamese or English-Vietnamese. As much as85 percent of the population have access to fresh water.

Ninh Thuan is one of the eight provinces in the country with the2012-2016 mother and child healthcare project approved by the PrimeMinister.

The project’s total budget is fivebillion USD, with four billion USD provided by UNICEF and the UnitedNations Population Fund.-VNA