Dow provides clean drinking water to nearly 1,500 Danang’s pupils

Dow’s meaningful donation, nearly 1,500 Danang’s pupils to access safe and clean water

Donated schools are areas in an urgent need of clean drinking water. In particular, at Hoa Nhon I Primary School, Hoa Nhon commune, Hoa Vang district, Danang city, the old water purification system was out of order and seriously degraded. Meanwhile, Hoa Nhon I School not only needs to provide clean drinking water to nearly 600 pupils and teachers but also approximately 300 local residents sheltering in case of natural disasters. Nguyen Thi Dinh Secondary School, though in operation for just six years, has a continuous booming number of pupils that now reaches nearly 900 pupils and teachers. Such a large number makes the school unable to provide clean water to the whole school but school’s teacher and staff. Pupils used to bring boiled or bottled drinking water by themselves.

Having carried out the site surveys, Dow collaborated with PACCOM to rapidly install two modern and international-standard water purification systems to ensure the teaching and learning quality at these schools.

Ribbon cutting ceremony to put a water purification system into use at Nguyen Thi Dinh Secondary School

Mr. Tomoyuki Sasama, Vietnam Country Manager, Dow in Vietnam said: “Our 20 years of presence in Vietnam is also a 20-year journey of actively engaging in social responsibility activities in local communities, especially underprivileged rural and remote areas through our long-term and large-scale CSR programs. Donating water purification systems is our meaningful program that has been started since 2001. In order to add sustainability and further practicality to the program, we collaborated with PACCOM in 2014 to co-deploy the program. We are happy that there records about 3,500 beneficiaries from this program in 2015, which will serve as a motive for us to expand the program scale in next years.”

Dow also plans to extend its clean water support to over 500 pupils and teachers at Tan Dan Kinder Garden, Tan Dan Commune, Phu Xuyen District, Hanoi. Through the cooperation with PACCOM, Dow helps about 3.500 Vietnam’s pupils and teacher to access safe and clean water that has met safety standards by Ministry of Health.

Previously, in 2013-2014, Dow and PACCOM worked together to donate water purification system to purify peat-coal-contaminated water for Khoai Chau School for Disabled Children, Khoai Chau district, Hung Yen province and sponsoring water purification system to purify arsenic water for Xuan Khe 3 Primary School, Ly Nhan district, Ha Nam province. In 2013, Dow donated a mobile water purification system to Vietnam Red Cross to support their disaster relief efforts and provide safe drinking water to victims of natural calamities in remote areas.

Apart from donating water purification systems, Dow is an enthusiastic practitioner of long-term CSR programs on a nationwide scale, including: Collaborating with the Office of Business for Sustainable Development to organize 31 workshops on “Cleaner Production and Waste Management for Vietnam’s Businesses” with the participation of more than 1,500 Vietnam’s SMEs; Partnering with Habitat for Humanity Vietnam to build more than 20 houses for the need; Donating IT equipment, books, scholarships, refurbished schools…; Donating medical equipment; Providing helmets and traffic safety and awareness training to 5 primary schools in the South of Vietnam.

T.H