Charity golf tournament for kids 2017 ready to tee off

The Vietnam Investment Review has launched the annual charity golf tournament Swing for the Kids 2017 to raise funds for underprivileged students with excellent academic records.
Charity golf tournament for kids 2017 ready to tee off ảnh 1Illustrative image. (Photo: Vietnam Golf Tourism)

Hanoi (VNA)– The Vietnam Investment Review has launched the annual charity golf tournamentSwing for the Kids 2017 to raise funds for underprivileged students withexcellent academic records.

The event, the 11th ofits kind, will be held at Dong Mo Resort in Son Tay, Hanoi on April 22. It issponsored by a number of big names, such as BRG Group, SeABank, VinGroup, andSamsung.

The tournament willattract about 150 golfers who have to pay 2.5 million VND (about 110 USD) inentry fee per person. The collected money will be all donated to charity.

The organisers expectto raise more than 1.3 billion VND (57,000 USD) this year.

During the pressconference to announce the event on March 23, two students, Le Van Tu from theHanoi National University of Education and Thao Seo Si from the Thai NguyenUniversity of Agriculture and Forestry, were granted full scholarships of 10million VND (438.7 USD) each for the four straight year.-VNA
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