The President of the US educational fund ‘Eisenhower Fellowships’, John Wolf, has invited all eligible Vietnamese candidates to apply to the Eisenhower Fellowships programme for Southeast Asia.

At a reception given for Wolf in Hanoi on May 21, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai, praised the expansion of the Eisenhower Fellowships programme in Vietnam , which, he said, will be a boost to the country’s human resources.

Hai added that the Vietnamese Government will do everything it can to facilitate the programme in the future.

Founded in 1953, “Eisenhower Fellowships” is a non-governmental and non profit organisation with its funding mainly coming from public donations as well as organisations and the business community in the US . It has sponsored more than 2,000 people from 100 countries around the world, with almost 200 from Southeast Asia.-VNA