Hygiene packages delivered to poor women in Kon Tum

The UN Women Vietnam said on September 10 that the goods, including soaps and hygiene products for women, are funded by an aid package of US$300,000 of the Government of the Republic of Korea (RoK). 

The hygiene packages are hoped to help prevent the spread of diarrhoea, hand-foot-mouth disease and dengue fever, among others. 

The aid delivery in Kon Tum is part of the plan to provide 20,500 such packages for disadvantaged women in the five provinces of Ca Mau, Kien Giang, Binh Thuan, Kon Tum, and Gia Lai, worth a total of over VND14 billion (US$625,000). 

The event was attended by RoK Ambassador to Vietnam Lee Hyuk, Country Director of UN Women Vietnam Shoko Ishikawa and President of the Vietnam Women Union Nguyen Thi Thu Ha. 

Shoko Ishikawa said the targeted women will also receive consultation on how to keep them and their family’s healthy. 

Echoing Ishikawa’s opinion, Nguyen Thi Thu Ha also underlined the need to include gender factor in aid activities, saying that women and girls are vulnerable to natural disasters, and they also have more difficulties to access support than men.