Health and social security for the Youth are ensured
22/07/2024 09:08 AM
Young people are central members of society. Although youth are an important part of society, they still face significant challenges. For many young people around the world, “puberty – the biological onset of adolescence –brings not only changes to their bodies but also new vulnerabilities to human rights abuses, particularly in the arenas of sexuality, marriage and child bearing”.Social protection is crucial in improving the resilience of families — including adolescents, creating access to further education, combatting unemployment among youth and improving adolescent health outcomes.
Youth social work
Youth social work refers to the infrastructural services offered by child and youth services to assist young people in transitioning from school to working life. In other words, youth social work operates at the interface between the education system and the labour market. At its core, it provides socio-educational assistance as young people transition from education via vocational training to working life. However, it also can involve placing individuals in suitable housing with socio-educational support (while they undergo professional integration); low-threshold outreach services for difficult-to-reach target groups, such as streetwork or mobile youth work; and youth migration services, whose integration and support activities are aimed at young members of the immigrant community.
Youth vocational counselling comprises vocational services such as youth workshops, in-training assistance, and vocational training services provided in external training facilities for adolescents and young adults whose personal and/or social situation means they are unable or barely able to participate in regular vocational training. These services are a socio-educational complement to the services offered by the Employment Agency and job centres to adolescents and young adults who encounter problems as they try to get started on the labour market.
Over 1 million USD to provide comprehensive support for youth’s reproductive health
A launch ceremony of the project on providing support for Vietnamese youth’s sexual and reproductive health was jointly held by the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and the United Nations Population Fund in Vietnam (UNFPA Vietnam) on July 24. The project themed “Support comprehensive development of Vietnamese young people on SRH and preparation for population ageing, contributing to the successful implementation of the national strategy on youth development for the period of 2021-2030”, will be implemented from August 2024 to December 31, 2026, with a total fund of over 1.05 million USD.
The project will be conducted across Vietnam with a focus on the localities of Ha Giang, Gia Lai, Kon Tum, Lai Chau, Son La, Bac Kan, Quang Tri, Phu Yen, Binh Duong, Dak Nong and Hanoi.
The project will cover four areas, including increased access to information and services on reproductive health, sexual health and gender equality for vulnerable adolescents, the promotion of youth participation in the implementation of the Youth Law, Vietnamese Youth Development Strategy for the 2021 - 2030 period and policies in support of youth, youth participation in effective adaptation to population ageing, and technical support and project management to ensure the efficiency of the project.
According to Nguyen Tuong Lam, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union cum Deputy Chairman of the National Committee for Vietnamese Youth, the project aims to create a favourable environment to support youth development, focusing on life skills and sex education and developing mechanisms to boost youth participation in policies building.
UNFPA Vietnam hopes to see many breakthrough results, especially in the reduction of maternal mortality rates and improvements to access information and high-quality reproductive and sexual health services for young people, including ethnic minority youth, migrant youth, and youth with disabilities and HIV/AIDS, UNFPA Representative in Vietnam Matt Jackson affirmed.
Vietnam suggests promoting exchanges between ASEAN, Russian youths Exchange and training activities for young people in the fields of communications, agriculture, culture and sports should be promoted, Deputy Director of the International Department of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee Le Hong Nhung has said. Nhung made the suggestion at the third congress of the international council of the World Youth Festival (WYF) Directorate, which ended on July 8 in Moscow, Russia.
She went on to say that youth exchanges should be organised regularly and expressed her wish that there will be activities to foster connections and promote exchange and mutual understanding between youths of member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Russia.
Vietnam is ready to expand bilateral cooperation in international youth-related affairs, Nhung added.
Participants at the event introduced solutions to popularising Russian as an international language.
WYF-2024, which took place in Sochi from July 1-7, brought together 20,000 young people, including 10,000 delegates of Russia and the rest from other countries and territories.
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