Offering help to children with difficulties is a very practical program. This is also a task of provincial Child Support Fund to connect kind hearts with unfortunates…
Scholarships for poor pupils
On the annual Mid-Autumn festival, authorities at all levels of the province focus on taking care of children, especially disadvantaged ones. Provincial Child Support Fund always makes the earliest plans for the annual Tet festival for children with many significant activities, including awarding scholarships to poor-but-excellent pupils…Nguyen Thi Le Trinh, Director of provincial Child Support Fund said: “Awarding scholarships to poor-but-excellent pupils is one of the fund’s key activities to help these pupils rise up and integrate into the community”.
According to Mrs.Trinh, provincial Child Support Fund is expected to award 400 scholarships to poor-but-excellent on the occasion of this year’s Mid-Autumn festival. The goals of the scholarship program are to encourage and praise poor-but-excellent pupils; create favorable conditions for them to mutually exchange and express the Party, State and society’s attention to them.
She added that also with the above goals, provincial Child Support Fund donated more than 4,000 scholarships worth more than VND3bln, 39 computers and 565 bicycles to poor-but-excellent pupils over the past 15 years.
Le Thi Huong, a 7th grader of Hieu Liem junior high school in Tan Uyen district said that his father died in a traffic accident three years ago. All financial burdens have put on his mother’s shoulder. After school, Huong has always spent her free time to help her mother do housework and take care of her younger sister. Huong said that she has felt very happy when receiving gifts from provincial Child Support Fund and other social organizations while inwardly thanking them for their attention to her and her family. Huong added that she has received gifts from many donors, helping her have enough notebooks, books and new clothes for the new academic year.
Joining hands to take care of disadvantaged children
Like Huong, Bui Thi Thuy Duong, a 9th grader of Trinh Hoai Duc high school has tried to rise up from the whole society’s help to overcome Thalassaemia dangerous disease and become a good pupil. Many other children with difficulties have also received the attention and help of the whole society to further pursue their learning.
Mrs.Trinh said provincial Child Support Fund has so far given financial support for 2,610 children with difficulties via many significant activities, including awarding scholarships, providing eye surgery…Since early this year, the whole province has had 4 children enjoying heart surgery with total cost of VND236mln.
“We will further promote mobilization work in order to contribute to socializing the programs of giving care for children, including those of providing heart surgery for children with difficulties funded by HCM city’s Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients; providing cleft surgery for children funded by the Ho Chi Minh City Odonto-Maxillofacial Hospital; building playgrounds for children in poor regions of the province…”, Mrs.Trinh affirmed.
Reported by Thu Thao-Translated by K.T
