Save the Children Vietnam wins award for bilingual literacy app

Save the Children Vietnam has been awarded the ‘Digital Content Creator for Children’ award at the 2026 Vietnam Digital Content Creator Awards in Hanoi. The recognition is for the ‘Vui doc cung em’ (Joyful Reading with Children) application, which aims to support primary school students, particularly those from ethnic minority groups, in improving their Vietnamese reading comprehension through their native languages.

Launched in 2022, the app currently offers 500 lessons for grades 1 through 5. Approximately 200 of these lessons have already been translated into the Hmong language to facilitate bilingual learning. Following a two-year implementation across 18 schools in Dien Bien province, the application has been credited with helping teachers access materials more easily and boosting students' confidence and literacy skills.

Future plans for the application include translating lessons into the Bahnar language and expanding its reach to other provinces and cities across Vietnam to support more children in disadvantaged areas.