🏅 On September 23rd, 2024, VNF had the honor to join the High-level Panel Discussion at the 7th ASEAN Inclusive Business Forum, organized by the United Nations ESCAP (ESCAP Inclusive Business) in Vientiane, Lao. Last year, we were honored to represent Vietnam to receive the ASEAN Inclusive Business Award 2023 in Indonesia.
📣 This year’s High-Level Panel brought together public and private sector leaders to discuss critical aspects of promoting Inclusive Business (IB) and share valuable insights on promoting and scaling these models in ASEAN. During the panel and follow-up discussions, VNF had the opportunity to share our journey in recovering discarded shrimp by-products to create new values, especially in making these values accessible to the underprivileged.
🦐 Our flagship IB project “Upcycling Shrimp Molting Shells” is a groundbreaking and impactful IB model. Many shrimp farms in Vietnam are intensive ones. Their molting shells need to be siphoned and become a significant environmental and public health concern❤️🩹. VNF has developed a prop technology and a collection & distribution model to transform the molting shells into new bioproducts, creating values for Farmers 👨🏻🌾👩🏻🌾. This is also a project that “completes many goals with one action” to reduce environmental pollution, to create new job opportunities, to promote a circular economy business model, and to make the shrimp industry more sustainable.
Inclusive Business is always challenging. You can call IB business people dreamers, but VNF team is striving every day to make things happen. Let’s work together and Leave No One Behind (LNOB)💚! If you are still not optimistic yet, let’s sing along with us a famous Beatles tune to convey our wishes bringing the best to the underprivileges in the society:
🎵If there’s anything that you want
If there’s anything I can do
Just call on me and I’ll send it along
With Love, from Me to You…🎶
Special thanks to Jonathan Wong, Marta Pérez Cusó and Trinh Huong and the ESCAP team for a wonderful event.
ℹ️ Explore our Inclusive Business model: https://lnkd.in/gGJvRduy
ℹ️ Explore our Upcycling Shrimp Molting Shells project: https://lnkd.in/gGJviGAT
