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Dak Nong offers free books for poor ethnic students

More than 30,200 poor ethnic minority students in the Central Highland province of Dak Nong have been given free textbooks for the 2017-2018 school year.
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Dak Nong (VNA) – More than 30,200poor ethnic minority students in the Central Highland province of Dak Nong havebeen given free textbooks for the 2017-2018 school year.

The provincial School Equipment & Book Co.Ltd coordinated with the Departments of Education and Training and schooladministrations carried out the programme with a total cost of about 14.4billion VND (633,600 USD) sourced from the local budget. 

Director of the company Ngo Xuan Ha said theprogramme is to implement a resolution issued by the provincial People’sCouncil on supporting ethnic minority students from poor and near-poorhouseholds from the 2016-2017 to 2020-2021 school years.

Dak Nong is now home to 40 ethnic groups.

In the 2017-2018 school year, the province hasover 125,000 students, including 42,000 from ethnic minority groups.-VNA

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