Hopefully next year will be better

A Vietnamese man from southern Vietnam is living his dream, or everyone’s dream: traveling the world by motorbike. On the 794th day of his journey, Tran Dang Dang Khoa reached Sydney - the two-third mark on his seven-continent motorbike journey. “Suddenly I opened my eyes and I saw Sydney, an important milestone which marks two-thirds of my world journey on ‘The Memo’ and over two years since my departure,” Khoa shared with his 237,500 Facebook followers on August 3. A picture capturing nature in a rural area in Australia taken by Khoa has received positive feedback from his Facebook followers. “The Memo” is the name of the motorbike he has used for the trip, which began in June 2017, and the vehicle has so far taken him through around 50 countries. After Australia, the Tien Giang Province native expects to travel to Africa and the South Pole before heading home to Asia. In the middle of his journey, Khoa met with a Tuoi Tre News … [Read more...] about Vietnamese man visits 50 countries, and counting, on motorbike

Bosch, a leading global supplier of technology and services, announced its collaboration with Yonah, a project initiated by the alumni and students of National University of Singapore (NUS) that seeks to overcome barriers to accessing healthcare in rural regions through autonomous technologies. The project was inspired by the founding team’s trip to Papua New Guinea in 2016, where they discovered cargo logistics challenges caused by the difficult terrain and lack of road infrastructure. This also inhibited the transport of medical supplies to rural villages, causing a surge in prices for transportation and hindering supervisory medical visits by health community workers. Yonah was thus founded to help time-sensitive medical supplies reach the communities that need them. “From our hospital partner at Papua New Guinea, we learned that health workers conducting immunisation patrols at the various rural health centres have to travel 20 to 30 kilometres on foot, taking up to … [Read more...] about Bosch partners Yonah to clear healthcare barriers in Papua New Guinea

Volunteers at the event (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - National Volunteer Day 2019 was held in Hanoi on December 8  as part of activities in response to International Volunteer Day (December 5). Permanent Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) Central Committee Nguyen Anh Tuan said the event aims to promote pioneering and volunteering movements among young people in order to support socio-economic development in the community. Tuan reviewed a wide range of voluntary activities within the framework of the summer youth volunteer campaign, launched nationwide in 2000 by the Standing Board of the HCYU Central Committee. During the last two decades, over 50,000 classes on illiteracy elimination were organised for over 450,000 people. The volunteers repaired and built more than 287,000km of rural roads, repaired over 182,000 houses and constructed 67,431 others. HCYU units at all levels organised teams to give medical consulting, checks-up and treatment services to … [Read more...] about National volunteer day 2019 held in Hanoi

Some 800 women in 120 communes in six northern provinces - Thai Binh, Hai Duong, Nam Dinh, Ha Nam, Hung Yen, and Ninh Binh – have taken part in the “NEST Sisters” programme that Nestlé is carried out in collaboration with the Women’s Union. Women in rural areas play an important role in agricultural production and contribute a great deal to the family income. But due to their limited access to information on healthcare and nutrition along with a heavy workload and nutritional deficiencies, their health is modest. Under the programme, through provincial units of the Women’s Union and commune units of the Women’s Association, the company is building a women’s group called “NEST Sisters”, whose members are taught about nutrition, healthcare, and nutritious products. They in turn take this knowledge to other women and households in their commune. Dang Thi Huyen, Vice Chairwoman of the Women’s Union in Cong Hoa commune, … [Read more...] about Nestlé to expand programme to improve rural women’s role

Illustrative photo (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on June 14 launched a parenting website, bringing fathers together to share their parenthood experiences. The event was made on the occasion of the Father’s Day which is observed across nearly 90 countries on June 17. This is part of the UNICEF’s “Super Dads” campaign which is implemented to recognise the role of fathers in their children’s early development. UNICEF is calling for more support for fathers globally, including for policies that give parents time and resources they need to spend quality time with their children. It also uses the Father’s Day to renew its call to break down cultural and financial barriers preventing fathers from spending quality time with their young children. The online site will bring together fathers from all over the world to share their parenting tips, struggles, needs and successes. It features “mini … [Read more...] about UNICEF launches parenting site on Father’s Day