Uniqlo has cooperated with social organisations in Việt Nam to develop programmes to support the community.

The Japanese clothing retailer said it will donate all sales revenue from its UTme! Collection from its four stores by the end of December to the Hy Vọng (Hope) Foundation to build schools for children in Mù Cang Chải District in the northern province of Yên Bái.

The company has collaborated with the foundation in the Re.Uniqlo programme, which collects used clothes, sorts them and then gives them to people in need, since 2020.

According to the foundation’s statistics, more than 20,000 clothing pieces have been sent to people in the flood-hit central region and to people in mountainous areas in the northern province of Điện Biên, Sơn La, and Hà Giang.

Uniqlo recently worked with the Centre for Disability and Development (DRD) to create equal employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

The company has employed a staff member with a hearing disability and targets to create more jobs for people with disabilities in the future.

In addition, Uniqlo has partnered with communities to install filtration systems at schools in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta as part of its “Bringing clean drinking water to the Mekong Delta” project.

The project contributes to protecting the health of around 3,000 students and teachers who are seriously affected in saline intrusion areas in the region.

Since officially launching in Việt Nam in 2019, Uniqlo has opened 22 stores in four provinces and cities of HCM City, Hà Nội, Hải Phòng and Bình Dương, and an online stores. It also deploys an automatic payment system at some large stores to support the payment process more quickly, accurately and conveniently.

The company has offered training to around 1,000 Vietnamese employees, and more than 70 per cent of store leaders are Vietnamese as it seeks to improve the quality of human resources in Việt Nam for its long-term development in the country. — VNS