UVF supports health and hygiene projects in Vietnam

This scheme provides financial support to the projects focusing on community health and hygiene, that aim to make positive contribution to improve Vietnamese lives, especially for those in rural and remote areas.

The key focus areas of the 2013 programme is ‘clean water’ with initiatives to improve polluted water and/or save clean water.

Priority is given to those projects that bring benefits to women and children in mountainous and rural areas. Deadline for application submission is October 5, 2013.

Organisations which have initiatives to develop and implement projects related to the above subjects can go to the website www.unilever.com.vn to download the application form and get further information on the programme.

The scheme, this year, encourages creative ideas that facilicate and improve clean water supply, clean warter saving for community, helping increase the number of people, who can access to clean water, in turn, creating a healthy, sustainable future for the community.

The UVF annual grant is one of many activities being taken by Unilever Vietnam to implement the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan, that was launched by the Company in 2010. In the plan, helping more than one billion people, globally, take action to improve their health and well-being is one of three outcomes that Unilever aims to achieve by 2020.

 “Apart from the social activities of Unilever’s brands and strategic partnerships between Unilever Vietnam and relevant government agencies, the UVF annual grant is indeed, necessary to support organisations which share the same purposes with Unilever Vietnam to improve health and hygiene conditions for the community in Vietnam, in turn, realising our company’s vision of helping make Vietnamese lives better,” said JV Raman, chairman of Unilever Vietnam and UVF.

“We do hope that with the focus on clean water, this year, we will receive more outstanding and meaningful projects that bring tangible, long-lasting and sustainable benefits to the Vietnamese.”