The government of Switzerland has committed US$6.8mil (RM27.4mil) through the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation to roll out the second phase of a project to improve nutrition among upland farming families in Oudomxay and Huaphan provinces.
A memorandum of understanding on the second phase of the project was signed on Friday by the director-general of the Department of Hygiene and Health Promotion, Dr Phonepaseuth Ounaphom, and Country Director of the SNV Netherlands Development Organisation in Laos, Bangladesh and Myanmar, Dr Allert van den Ham.