September 28, 2017 | 22:20 (GMT+7)
Vice President presents gifts, scholarships to needy children
Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh on September 27 presented scholarships and gifts to 100 disadvantaged children in Central Thua Thien-Hue province to help them enjoy the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival.
Thirty
children living in SOS Children’s Village Hue and 70 others from poor families
in Phu Vang district received the scholarships and gifts each worth VND 1.5
million in recognition of their excellent academic results.
Thinh,
who is also President of the Council of the National Fund for Vietnamese
Children (NFVC), spoke highly of the achievements of the SOS Children’s Village
Hue over the past 17 years.
She
praised the village’s 13 teachers and staff members for their efforts to
overcome many difficulties to take care of the disadvantaged children and hoped
that they will keep up their jobs in the future.
The
NFVC took the occasion to hand over VND 30 million to the village as an
encouragement to the teachers and staff.
The
SOS Children’s Village Hue is home to 71 children, including infants. Up to 71
percent of students in the village achieved good academic results in the
2016-2017 school year.
Source: VNA