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Gia Lai supports ethnic minority students

The Central Highlands province of Gia Lai will provide meal subsidy to ethnic minority students in remote areas to encourage them to pursue study.
Gia Lai supports ethnic minority students ảnh 1Illustrative image (Source: VNA)
Gia Lai (VNA) – The Central Highlands province of Gia Lai willprovide meal subsidy to ethnic minority students in remote areas to encourage themto pursue study.

The provincial authorities have issued detailed instructions on thesubsidy, targeting students who live too far from school to go to school andreturn home within the day.

Accordingly, primary students whose homes are 4km or more away fromschool, and secondary students whose houses are at least 7km from school, areeligible to benefit from the subsidy, which will be used to pay for their mealsat school. Their schools will also receive funding for organising the cooking ofstudents’ meals.

For areas with mountainous terrains and underdeveloped transport, thedistance between home and school would be 2km or more for primary students and3km or more for secondary students.

The province’s move is in line with the Government’s Decree116/2016/ND-CP, which stipulates meal and housing subsidy for ethnic minority studentsin disadvantaged areas.

The policy is designed to address the situation in mountainous areaswhere many ethnic students drop out of school due to poverty and difficultiesin getting to school.-VNA            
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