On 30 March 2022, in Hai Phong City, the Central Team
Council, the Central Committee of the Vietnam Student Association, Suntory
Holdings Limited Group and Suntory PepsiCo Vietnam Beverage Company Limited organized
the Opening Ceremony of "Mizuiku - I love clean water" 2022.
“Mizuiku” is an
educational program for nature and water implemented by Suntory Group in Japan since
2004. Since 2015, “Mizuiku - I love clean water” has been piloted in Vietnam
with the desire to create and contribute meaningful impact on the community. The
year of 2021 marked the 7th year of "Mizuiku - I love clean water" in
Vietnam with impressive results. 83 toilets projects and clean water facilities
in the participating schools were built and refurbished. In which, more than
81,000 students took part in about 3,000 Mizuiku classes conducted by more than
2,400 teachers and volunteers in 15 provinces and cities all over the country.
More than 1.9 million citizens have been accessed to and benefited from the
activities of the program.
Aside
from efforts to educate about water resource protection and refurbish facilities to ensure water
hygiene in primary schools, "Mizuiku
- I love clean water" collaborated with the Hai Phong Women's Union for
the first time in 2021 to successfully implement water protection activities
for thousands of local women and children. Specially, two eco-toilets from plastic bottles in a market
in Hai Phong City recevied a lot of positive attention and feedbacks from the
community, which recycles over 4,000 plastic bottle corresponding to approximately
660 kilograms of plastic waste.
In
2022, this program will continue to collaborate with the Hai Phong Women's Union
to organize new events for its members to keep spreading the messange of saving
and responsibility to protect clean water. In addition to maintaining its fundamental
contents, the program will use information technology platforms such as
livestream to arrange Mizuiku lessons for students and volunteers. Also, the
development of Mizuiku application and E-learning on the program’s website will
be prioritized.
This
year, "Mizuiku - I love clean water" program will introduce Digital Homework Activity, a Vietnameseized
new content based on the original format of Japan Suntory Corporation. Accordingly,
at the Opening Ceremony of "Mizuiku - I love clean water" 2022, the
Central Team Council in coordination with Suntory PepsiCo Vietnam launched a nationwide
comic creation contest with the topic
"Journey with Mizu to protect water
resources”. The contest will be organized for students in grades 1 – 9 to
jointly create the story ideas regarding Journey with Mizu to protect the water
resources. The top three contest scripts will be utilized to make an animated
film to continue
05 episodes of "Adventure of Mizu Water Droplets" which were released
in 2021.
