- Tokio Marine Insurance Vietnam (TMIV) has conducted safety skills sessions for students
- The initiative aims to equip students with essential knowledge and self-rescue techniques
- This program, now in its third year, has raised safety awareness among more than 3,000 students
Tokio Marine Insurance Vietnam has been able to successfully conduct a series of in-person sharing sessions, like those at Chu Van An High-Quality Secondary School on 13th May and at Nguyen Gia Thieu Secondary School on 14th May in Hanoi's Long Bien district, involving more than 1,000 students.
It is a hands-on activity that focuses on imparting necessary safety skills to the young generation to safeguard themselves and help others around them in case of frequent risks that include drowning, fire accidents, and natural calamities.
Throughout the activities, TMIV speakers personally provided advice, imparted knowledge, and participated in interactive sessions with students on two core subjects: earthquake preparedness and drowning prevention, both of which have recently experienced a rising trend.
TMIV team with teachers and students at Chu Van An Secondary School at the sharing session
Based on the Ministry of Health, a total of over 2,000 Vietnamese children drown on average annually from 2016 to 2024.
Having this in mind as an urgent need, TMIV rolled out the initiative to equip students with basic knowledge to enable them to grasp why accidents happen and how they can avoid them in the best way.
Through the classes, students took active roles in debate, gave comments, and mastered self-rescue swimming techniques along with how to act during emergency cases of drowning victims.
Further, the issue of earthquake preparation- while yet not commonly so in Vietnam- has garnered increased interest as a result of global ascension.
Students learned about causes and effects of earthquakes and were walked through critical safety protocols. The sharing activity became interactive and interesting as students actively participated in hands-on exercises and simulated drills for earthquake response in different settings, including at home, school grounds, or coastal regions with the threat of tsunami.
This is the third year running that Tokio Marine Insurance Vietnam has implemented this sustainable development program raising awareness and safety competency to more than 3,000 Hanoi students.
Nguyen Anh Tuan, headmaster of Chu Van An High-Quality Secondary School, said, "We honestly appreciate the company's organisation of such a worthwhile and pragmatic programme, which enables our students to be more robust in responding to dangers in life."
Agreeing with the same perspective, Nguyen Gia Thieu Secondary School's vice principal Bui Thi Nguyen Ngoc said, "Earthquakes are becoming a rising issue against the backdrop of climate change. It is imperative to equip students with safety skills and knowledge. TMIV has provided an informative high-quality and humane programme."
