Launched in 2014, the program "Border guards support students" has given assistance to 9,000 children in mountainous, remote and border areas and on islands and, notably, among them, nearly 180 children are from Laos and Cambodia.
President Tran Dai Quang meeting with 60 outstanding border guards
The program has helped boost ties between the border guards and local authorities, consolidate people's trust in the Party, State and Army as well as raise locals' awareness of education.
On behalf of the Party and the State, President Quang inquired after the delegates and sent them best wishes. He also offered sympathy with teachers and students in areas badly devastated by the recent floods.
On the occasion of the 35th Vietnamese Teachers' Day (October 20), President Quang wished teachers and people engaged in education nationwide good health, happiness, bringing into full play and fulfilling their role as ‘engineers of the soul in the cause of teaching.’
Emphasizing that Vietnam's tradition of acquiring knowledge and showing utmost respect to teachers, and that teachers are the bridge between the past and the present and the future, President Quang confirmed the Party and the State have always paid much attention to education, training and the welfare and care of young generations.
He also asked involved organizations and individuals to promote responsibility for, closely coordinate with each other in, invest more in and further take care of the younger generations in remote, mountainous, border areas and on islands.
The President suggested sectors and departments at all levels pay attention to the care for children of wounded, sick and fallen soldiers, and of those who contributed to the national revolution and for poor children in poor areas.
He hoped the students continue promoting the knowledge-acquiring tradition of the nation, keep aspiring after a better life, and exert all efforts to achieve good academic results to contribute to building a rich, beautiful and prosperous nation.
Earlier on in the day, in a meeting with outstanding border guards of the program "Sharing with teachers", Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha recognized and applauded the border guards' contributions to this education campaign.
Minister Nha underscored the important role of the teachers who work in mountainous and border areas and on islands and have overcome hardship to make educational contributions and the important role of the border guards who have actively built schools, come to remote schools to teach needy students to help them escape from illiteracy.
On this occasion, the minister presented certificates of merit to outstanding border guards and gifts to needy children.
Translated by Mai Huong