The Asia Fund from the US and the Intellectual Centre under the Vietnam Study Encouragement Association, presented scholarships to 53 poor high school students in the northern province of Nam Dinh on July 17.

Each student will get a scholarship of VND290,000 per month for 12 months.
The Asia Fund now has 17 representative offices in Asian countries, including Vietnam (Hanoi), focusing on peace, development and renewal in poor areas. It has provided Nam Dinh VND900 million in its seven years of operation in the province.
Poor students will also receive schoolbags, clothes, English-Vietnamese dictionaries, birthday gifts and presents for the Tet holiday.
Forty students were given scholarships in 2005 and the number has risen to 58 in 2011.
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