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In daytime, Lieutenant Son gives villagers methods of planting wet rice, breeding cattle, keeping their neighborhood clean, preventing and controlling diseases and epidemics. And in the evening, he teaches students of different ages script. Students’ spelling inspired Son to try his best to eliminate illiteracy there despite many difficulties.

While eating, staying and working together with Chut ethnic group over the past 8 years, lieutenant Son has gradually grasped their living custom and tradition. He can remember each villager and each household in the village there. That makes him become a close member of the community.

By knowledge acquired in life, the border soldier has helped Chut ethnic people distinguish what should do or not and get rid of unsound customs.

Son confided, when he and his comrades came Rao Tre village for the first time, they found it very poor. The village had 27 thatched cottages and shabby-stilted houses. Border soldiers had to directly guide them how to plant trees and do husbandry.

To date, many Chut ethnic households have practised family planning and well taken care of their children. More and more villagers can write and read fluently. 29 outstanding Chut ethnic students have been sent to study at Huong Khe district’s ethnic minority boarding school.

A villager, Ho Viet appraised teacher Son and recalled that teacher Son was kind to villagers. Son gave them script, ways of breeding pigs and planting wet rice. Chut ethnic people were grateful to him.

Chut ethnic minority in Rao Tre village do love Son and consider him one of their children. He is a moral support for Chut people there.

Translated by Mai Huong

Chut ethnic people have been taught script and their living standards have been much improved. Those achievements are resulted from enthusiastic teaching and some useful advice by border troops in Rao Tre village of Ha Tinh north central province over the past decades. One of these border troops is Lieutenant Nguyen Van Son.