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Cargill finances construction of more schools in Vietnam

US agricultural company Cargill has funded construction of a school in Ba Don town in the central province of Quang Binh.
Cargill finances construction of more schools in Vietnam
Cargill finances construction of more schools in Vietnam ảnh 1Quang Long primary school in Quang Binh province has been funded by US agricultural company Cargill. (Photo courtesy of Cargill)

Hanoi (VNA) - US agricultural company Cargill has funded construction of aschool in Ba Don town in the central province of Quang Binh.

The QuangLong primary school, the 92nd school built in Vietnam with fundingprovided by Cargill, has five classrooms, restrooms, a gate, and a fence andwill take in almost 250 children aged six to 10.

Earlierthis month it provided funds to open the My Thanh kindergarten in Ba Tri districtin the Mekong delta province of Ben Tre.

Theemployee-led Cargill Cares Councils, through which the company providescharity, also set up a library there.

The twoschools cost around 2.7 billion VND (nearly 115,000 USD).  Cargill plansto fund five more by May next year.

Nguyen Ba Luan, country president of Cargill, said: “We have been building schools for Vietnamfor 24 years, and we will continue to do so for many years to come in areaswhere education infrastructure is in urgent need of improvement in Vietnam.”

Since1997 the company has provided around 5.3 million USD to build schools that nowprovide education to more than 14,500 students in 48 provinces every year.-VNA
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