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RoK hands over equipment to Yen Bai schools

The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) in Vietnam and the People's Committee of northern Yen Bai province held a ceremony on December 18 to hand over equipment to several local boarding and semi-boarding ethnic minority schools.
RoK hands over equipment to Yen Bai schools ảnh 1At the ceremony (Photo: VNA)
YenBai (VNA) – The Korea InternationalCooperation Agency (KOICA) in Vietnam and the People's Committee of northernYen Bai province held a ceremony on December 18 to hand over equipment to several localboarding and semi-boarding ethnic minority schools.

The project, valued at 500,000 USD, is part ofa memorandum of understanding on cooperation signed by KOICA, the provincialPeople’s Committee and the Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs on April 13.

Accordingly, eight boarding and semi-boardingethnic minority primary and secondary schools in Mo De commune, Mu Cang Chaidistrict will receive all the proposed teaching equipment, including 9 computerrooms, 53 85-inch TVs, 50 laptops, 39 HDMI cables, 11 projectors, 11 electricscreens of 180 inches, and 24 air conditioners.

Speakingat the event, Vice Chairwoman of the provincial People’s Committee Vu Thi HienHanh wished that in the coming time, Yen Bai would continuereceiving support from the Government of the Republic of Korea (RoK), particularly from the RoK Embassy,KOICA in Vietnam, and the Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs for localsocio-economic development and education-training sector in particular.

Followingthe ceremony, a KOICA representative handed over a computer room to the local boardingethnic minority high school./.
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