On September 22nd, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc met with 263 children representing all 54 ethnic groups across the country who are in Hanoi for the fourth Ethnic Children’s Festival.

 The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has appreciated the dialogue and measures taken by Vietnam in the protection and promotion of children’s rights. Deputy Minister of Labour - Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Thi Ha led the Vietnamese delegation to engage in a dialogue with CRC members on Vietnam’s implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child on September 12-13 in Geneva, Switzerland.

 Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan on September 16 chaired the  National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVC) Sponsorship Council’s meeting to review the result of the Sponsorship in 8 months, and develop the duties in the last months of this years. The Vice President highlighted the need to mobilise all resources to help children living in difficulty to develop comprehensively.  

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has sent a letter to Vietnamese children at home and abroad, as well a foreign children in Vietnam, expressing his best wishes to them on the occasion of the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival.

Poor and near-poor households in poor districts nationwide will get financial assistance for housing from August 15 under Circular No.01/2022/TT-BXD on guiding the implementation of housing support under the National Target Programme on Sustainable Poverty Reduction in the 2021-2025 period.

 On July 25, in Hanoi, An inter-sector signing ceremony for a commitment to boost efforts in preventing child drowning in Việt Nam was held. The signing ceremony was chaired by the Ministry of Labour - Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA), with the participation of their nine partners including the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education and Training, the Ministry of Public Security and the Central Youth Union.

 President Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended the 75th Anniversary of Invalids and Martyrs Day (July 27, 1947 - July 27, 2022) and met with 450 representatives of millions of people who made contributions to the national representative revolution, on the morning of 24 July in Hanoi.

The COVID-19 pandemic and climate change pose challenges to poverty reduction. Population aging, income disparities and living standards as well as labour migration pose great challenges to the poor and poverty reduction. Deputy Minister of Labour - Invalids and Social Affairs Lê Văn Thanh revealed problems in the implementation of the National Target Programme for Sustainable Poverty Reduction in the 2021-2025 period to the National Assembly’s Committee on Social Affairs at a meeting on 20/7 in Hà Nội.