More joy to welcome the new school year

Since the beginning of August, the Department of Education and Training (MOET) has directed leaders of schools to coordinate with the local Party committees and authorities to intensify communication and mobilize social resources for upgrading school facilities.

A leader of the Yen The district Study Encouragement Association presents gifts to pupils who overcome difficulties to study well.

Recently, Nguyen Thi Hong Nhung, a student of Class 9A1, the Chien Son Primary and Secondary School (Son Dong district) received a scholarship from the "Because you are studious" programme. Nhung's father died of illness at his early age. The income from her mother's worker salary is only enough to feed the five-member family. Despite difficulties, she has always studied hard and gained many achievements.

Welcoming this school year, pupils in many places are happier when the localities invested in building more classrooms, function rooms, and traffic works. In previous school years, teachers and pupils in the highland area of Phong Van (Luc Ngan district) struggled to go to school on the basalt road.

To fix this situation, the district People's Committee invested in building a 10km-long concrete road from the communal center to the extremely difficult village of Suoi Chac. This year, villages have more than 20 km of roads concreted, at a total cost of more than 10 billion VND (432,000 USD) sourced from the communal budget.

Accompanying poor students

According to a representative of the provincial Department of Education and Training, in the school year 2019-2020, the province has about 455,000 pupils going to school, an increase of over 16,000 compared to the previous school year. Of these, more than 71,000 come from ethnic minority groups and 149 are persons with disabilities.

Parents in Suoi Chac village, Phong Van commune (Luc Ngan district) take children to school on a new road.

Along with the general support policies of the Party and State, over the past years, especially on the occasion of preparing for new school year, ethnic minority students, pupils from poor households, and those with difficult family circumstances in the province all have received the sharing and support of agencies at all levels, sectors and the community.

On the occasion of the opening of this school year, the Canon Vietnam Co., Ltd., and the Women’s Union of Hiep Hoa district presented more than 100 bicycles to students in the three districts of Son Dong, Luc Ngan and Hiep Hoa. Youth union chapters in the province donated and mobilized over 500 gifts for children living with difficulties.

The provincial Study Encouragement Association presented 60 gifts, each worth 500,000 VND, to disadvantaged students with high academic achievements at Xuong Lam Secondary School (Lang Giang district), Ngo Si Lien High School (Bac Giang city), Thang township Primary School (Hiep Hoa district).

Especially, through the mobilized sources, on September 8, the provincial Association for Protection of Children's Rights will collaborate with Bac Giang Newspaper and the provincial Study Encouragement Association to organise the 14th Dreams on the wing programme 2019. As many as 171 scholarships and meaningful gifts are expected to be presented to poor pupils and those living in extremely difficult circumstances to help them have more conditions to go to school.

In addition to the above support activities, many organisations and individuals have voluntarily called on the community to help people in misfortune and those suffering illness or coming from especially difficult families.

Tran Tuan Nam, Director of the provincial Department of Education and Training, said recently, localities have mobilized hundreds of billions of dong from the budget and social sources to improve teaching and learning conditions. Up to now, the province has added 345 classrooms and 585 toilets.

Through the new-style rural building movement, the communes and townships have built hundreds of kilometers of inter-village and communal concrete roads in hamlets and alleys, helping children go to school conveniently. The department has also directed schools, depending on their conditions, to provide specific support such as giving learning tools and clothes, and covering part of tuition and lunch cost for students.

Deputy PM hands relief to needy students in Thai Binh

Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has handed 89 relief packages, each worth VND3 million (US$129), to needy students in the Red River Delta province of Thai Binh.

Over 24 million students nationwide enter new academic year

More than 24 million students across the country began the 2019-2020 academic year following brief and solemn ceremonies without balloons on September 5.

Vallet scholarships presented to students in central region

As many as 179 scholarships totally worth more than 2 billion VND (about 86,140 USD) have been presented to disadvantaged students in the Central Highlands and the south-central provinces of Ninh Thuan and Khanh Hoa.

Mai Toan