March 17, 2018 | 21:58 (GMT+7)
Floating school built for overseas Vietnamese pupils in Cambodia
The Consulate General of Vietnam in Battambang, Cambodia inaugurated a floating school built for children of overseas Vietnamese living on Tonlé Sap Lake in Pursat province on March 16.
Funded by the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs under Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry, the wooden facility consists of two classrooms which can accommodate about 100 pupils.
Chairman of the Association of Vietnamese-Cambodians in Pursat Le Hoang said there was no school in the area in the past.
He said with delight that now the Vietnamese expats here can send their children to school and use the facility to hold community activities.
On the occasion, a Vietnamese company presented four tonnes of rice to disadvantaged overseas Vietnamese and Cambodian families in the locality, while staff at the Consulate General of Vietnam in Battambang supported health check-ups at Long Hai Pagoda, a pagoda of the Vietnamese expats in Tonlé Sap.
Source: VNA