Authorities
at all levels of the province have paid more attention to child care and
protection task by many practical activities and this has also been socialized
in the whole society. But, many children with extremely difficult circumstances
are now in need of help so that they can overcome difficulties to study and become
the owners of the nation’s future. 
The first provincial festival for poor-but-excellent pupils was co-organized by provincial DoLISA and provincial Youth Union
Meeting with poor-but-excellent pupils
At the first provincial festival for poor-but-excellent pupils held in mid July, there was a very vivacious and handsome face. This was Nguyen Tran Uy Vu, a 7th grader of Trinh Hoai Duc high school in Thuan An town’s An Thanh ward. Vu said that his dream was to become a dermatologist so that he could cure patients who suffer a disease like him.
Vu’s family is one of An Thanh ward’s poor-near households. His father passed away while his brother was hit by a traffic accident. Hence, his mother has become a bread-winner of the family, but she cannot get involved in heavy jobs because of arthritis. Vu has also faced many diseases like dermatitis, low pressure blood… But, over the past 7 years, he was always a good pupil and won a lot of awards, including the third prize of the town-level online English competition; the first prize of the 2012 traffic safety competition; the second prize of the 2012 Hoa Mi (nightingale) singing voice competition…Vu said that his mother was a motivation for his efforts in study.
Despites difficulties, Dao Ngoc Chau in Thuan An town’s Vinh Phu ward has also tried her best to gain good results in study. She was a good pupil for the nine consecutive years. Although facing difficulties with low income, Chau’s parents have always taken good care of her and her younger sister. Realizing this, Chau and her younger sister have been determined to well study. The local authorities and Chau’s school have also give more help to her. Chau said that she has wanted to be able to further pursue my learning to make my dream of becoming a teacher…
Nurturing dreams
Currently, there are still many children in need of help to be able to rise up in study and life. Truong Thi Anh Dao, Deputy Director of provincial Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (DoLISA) said: “With practical and significant activities, provincial DoLISA has implemented many projects on child protection and care, including those of improving competence of staff who are in charge of child protection and care task; building a system of providing services on children protection; developing the model of supporting and protecting children with difficulties; acting for children hit by HIV/AIDS…”.
Also according to Mrs.Dao, since early this year, Binh Duong has visited and presented gifts worth VND5.1bln to nearly 13,300 children; organized a forum for district-level children with the participation of 700 children; mobilized donors to visit and present more than 45,000 gifts worth nearly VND4bln for children with extremely difficult circumstances and members of the Club “Children with HIV/AIDS prevention”; teamed up with provincial Youth Union to the 2013 festival for poor-but-excellent children with the theme of “For children’s bright future”…
To achieve the above results, provincial DoLISA has coordinated with relevant agencies and localities to speed up dissemination of information to raise public awareness and action in child protection and care, joining hands with the society to take care of children so that there are no more children with difficulties…
Reported by Thu Thao-Translated by K.T
