Coca-Cola Learning Centers
Accessing Opportunities

Vietnam

With more than 20 million students and strained educational resources, Vietnamese schools are challenged to teach a generation of young people eager to learn. To support the Vietnamese government's efforts to enhance the nation's educational resources, Coca-Cola has partnered with the Ministry of Education and Training and the National Youth Union to set up 40 Coca-Cola Learning Centers across the country.

It's estimated that during every school day in Vietnam, about 10,000 students aged 11-18 participate in educational activities at the Coca-Cola Learning Centers.

Staffed by teachers, these Learning Centers are equipped with computers providing Internet and e-mail access, as well as software, books, and air conditioners to create comfortable, exciting learning environments, both during and after school hours. In many areas, the Learning Centers offer Vietnamese young people their only opportunity to access computer study and research materials.

The program, directed by a Steering Committee comprising members of the project partners, also includes the annual "Young Leaders of the Future" contest. Devised by teachers from the Ministry of Education and Training and the National Youth Union, the contest covers a number of academic disciplines and involves the 200 top students involved in the Learning Center program.

A Learning Center website and intranet have also been set up to enable on-line communication and dialogue between all Centers and program administrators. The program aims to eventually cover each of Vietnam's 61 provinces and cities.

Company Description

The Coca-Cola Company exists to benefit and refresh everyone who is touched by the company's business. Founded in 1886, Coca-Cola is the world's leading manufacturer, marketer, and distributor of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups, used to produce nearly 300 beverage brands. Its corporate headquarters are in Atlanta, with local operations in nearly 200 countries around the world. Coca-Cola's Asia operations cover 38 countries, including Japan, India, China, the Philippines, Thailand and Australia. The Asia Group accounts for 30 percent of The Coca-Cola Company's revenue, refreshes over half the world's population and provides total system employment to over 100,000 people. To learn more about Coca-Cola and their corporate social responsibility projects, please go to the Coca-Cola's website.

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