Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund was founded in March 1999. Up to now, the fund has granted more than 130,000 scholarships to students who are ethnic people, children of fishermen, and troops on duty at sea and on islands. Since the 2009-2010 academic school year, the fund has carried out in-depth investment projects on human resource training, school construction, and educational facilities.
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Talking with people who have been involved in the five projects and outstanding students grown up from the projects. |
The five projects drew the contribution of nearly 2,000 collectives and individuals in Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong, Can Tho, and overseas Vietnamese, as well as around 200 strategic sponsors of the projects. After 15 years of implementation, the projects have invested more than VND 470 billion to educate more than 1,700 students from 38 ethnic groups in 51 provinces and cities nationwide. Meanwhile, the fund has built 20 schools and school sites, two clean water projects, seven roads to school, and 40 new rural bridges, to name but a few.
The projects have created motivation for ethnic minority and island students to overcome difficulties and study hard. To date, 844 students graduated from high school, 288 students graduated from college and university returned to their hometowns to contribute their localities' development, and 637 students continue to receive scholarships from in-depth investment projects.
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Delegates of Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund presents gifts to collectives and individuals. |
At the program, delegates talked with people who have been involved in the projects over the past 15 years, and several outstanding students grown up from the projects.
According to Truong My Hoa, Chairwoman of Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund and Head of the “For beloved Hoang Sa and Truong Sa” club, the success of the projects has made positive contribution to nurturing and training young human resources for ethnic minority-inhabited, mountainous areas and islands, especially for ethnic groups along the Truong Son range and in remote islands. Each project has demonstrated profound humanity in the cause of educating students and gender equality, contributing to training youngsters with full knowledge and capacity for mountainous areas and islands.
Translated by Song Anh