Knowing this situation, armed forces’ units, local authorities and agencies have implemented effective models and measures to support needy children to go to school, improving the quality of local educational work.
As known, Bu Gia Map is one of the most difficult districts in Binh Phuoc province. Attentively, Dien Hieu - a Xtieng student of Class 4B of Bu Gia Map Primary School, lost out on school for many days to look after his younger brother. He is living with his family in a narrow and small house on the edge of the forest in Bu Gia Map commune, Bu Gia Map district.
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Troops of Defense-Economic Unit 778 presenting gifts to needy children in Bu Gia Map district, Binh Phuoc province |
Learning his difficult condition, Defense-Economic Unit 778 under Military Region 7 provided VND 300,000 each month for Hieu during his academic school year. Meanwhile, the unit’s troops regularly inquired after Hieu and guided him to effective learning skills.
Since 2021, through the model entitled “Supporting children to go to school” with the financial support of VND 2.7 million per student per school year, troops of Defense-Economic Unit 778 have helped many students continue pursuing their academic dreams.
Along with Defense-Economic Unit 778, Army Corps 16 and armed force units have implemented many creative models to support needy students.
Particularly, under the “Paving the way to school for children” movement in the 2022-2023 academic year, the Binh Phuoc provincial Military Command adopted 20 students during three academic years with a financial support of VND 500,000 per student per month, and presented 45 bicycles and school supplies to needy students. Carrying out the “Adopted children of border posts” and “Supporting children to go to school” models, in the 2023-2023 academic year, Binh Phuoc border guards assisted 70 students with extremely difficult conditions, handed over more than 3,400 gifts and 20 bicycles and encouraged 128 dropouts to return to school.
According to Mrs. Tran Tue Hien, Chairwoman of the Binh Phuoc provincial People’s Committee, models to support needy ethnic children in border and remote areas of armed force units and local agencies have contributed to fulfilling targets of the educational programs.
Over the past time, the provincial Party and People’s Committees have adopted effective and synchronous solutions, including implementing specific policies to promote the scale and network of schools, organizing training courses to improve capabilities of teachers, especially ethnic minority ones, and the quality of teaching methods.
Meanwhile, the province has launched programs, projects and plans on educating, protecting and taking care of children associated with programs on local socio-economic and cultural development. Localities have enhanced the mobilization of resources for education and drawn up concrete plans to provide textbooks and notebooks for needy students. Many kindergartens have opened classes to improving the Vietnamese language for preschool children in ethnic minority areas.
As a result, currently, 100 percent of districts, cities and towns in Binh Phuoc meet the national standards of preschool education universalization for 5-year-old children and primary education universalization. The whole communes, wards, and townlets have completed the universalization of secondary education.
Translated by Quynh Oanh