Every mid-lunar August, children in harsh circumstances of the province are eager for the Full Moon Festival where they can entertain themselves. The celebration and scholarship awarding co-organized by Committee of Children Support of Binh Duong Provincial Children Supporting Fund and Binh Duong Provincial Television late September 16 were joyful and warm, offering them a meaningful festival.
Joining them was Nguyen Huu Tu, Deputy Secretary of Binh Duong Provincial Party Committee, Huynh Van Nhi, Member of Standing Board of Binh Duong Provincial People’s Committee cum Chair of Binh Duong Provincial Fatherland Front Committee, Huynh Thanh Long, Member of Standing Board of Binh Duong Provincial People’s Committee cum Deputy Chair of Binh Duong Provincial People’s Council, Nguyen Minh Giao, Member of Standing Board of Binh Duong Provincial Party Committee cum permanent Deputy Chair of Binh Duong Provincial People’s Committee.
Playing together
One thousand students and children of harsh circumstances from 8 districts, towns, and Thu Dau Mot City gathered at Binh Duong Center for Conference and Exhibition to meet and entertain. Being in the same circumstances, they promptly got acquainted to share up current hardship and encourage one another to get on. All their worries, on getting to the place, disappeared and replaced by joyful faces and entertaining laughter in games and performances. The excellent shows and dances depicted the innocent and joyful entertainment of them by the care of social communities.
Binh Duong Provincial leaders hands over the symbol cardboards of computers to be donated to students. Photo: A. Sang
Pham Xuan Hoang, a Grade 7 student of Le Loi Senior High School in Bac Tan Uyen District, said: “I was born to a poor family, my parents have to engage in manual labor to support 3 of us. For me, being able to go to school is worth it as we have no time for entertainment like others. Today, I am here at the full moon festival celebration, playing and meeting others, it makes me so happy.” Although they had spent all the morning through, they were so into the festival. Dang Thanh Trung, a Grade 5 student of Chanh Phu Hoa Elementary School in Ben Cat Town shared his wishes of more time being with his peers in entertaining and relaxing moments.
Aside from songs and dances, they also enjoyed brilliant shows performed by Mang Non (young bamboo shoots) Troupe of Binh Duong Television Station. In addition to entertainment activities for children of harsh circumstances, gifts of lantern and moon-cakes were given to offer them with an enjoyable full moon festival with their families.
To support children’s schooling
Schooling and entertainment are the basic rights of children. In social life, some children being unlucky to be orphans, disables or homeless would not have such basic rights. Caring for the future of the nation, all-level leaders, authorities, and kind-hearted people have support them in many aspects. They have recently offered donation from such kind-hearted people through the Children Supporting Fund.
Tran Thanh Liem, Member of Standing Board of Binh Duong Provincial Party Committee cum permanent Deputy Chair of Binh Duong Provincial People’s Committee hands Full Moon Festival gifts to children. Photo: A. Sang
Nguyen Thi Le Trinh, the Director of Binh Duong Provincial Children Supporting Fund, said that to successfully implement national pivotal program of supporting children and maintaining their basic rights, the current program was to offer children of harsh circumstances the opportunities of meeting and gaining encouragement to become good citizens and piteous children in families. The scholarship packages for them today are encouraging to them as preserved by the whole social communities. Today, Binh Duong Provincial Children Supporting Fund will be offering over VND 1.7 billion in 422 scholarship packages of cash, bicycles, computers, Full Moon Festival gifts, sudden and long-term support.”
Huynh Thanh Tu, currently the 4th year student of Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, was among thousands of poor students in the province offered with scholarship paid by the fund. She told that the fund has been supporting her with scholarship ever since her Grade 5. The care warmed her up and animated her dreams of schooling. She treasured them all and was so gratitude for the care of people of kindness.
Reported by A. Sang – Translated by Vi Bao
