On this occasion, businesses, collectives andindividuals raised nearly 5 billion VND to provide scholarships for local ethnic minoritystudents who are in difficult circumstances.
The ceremony was jointly held by the VietnamFatherland Front Committee in HCM City, the municipal Board for Ethnic Minority Affairs and the People’s Public Security Newspaper.
Colonel Tran Kim Tham, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the People's Public Security Newspaper, said since 2007, the newspaper’s fund for poor and ethnic minority students has presented 26.6 billion VND to outstandingstudents in HCM City and other localities.
Earlier, through the fund, donors provided 60 tablets forchildren of officers and soldiers belonging to the Khmer group in the southernprovinces of Soc Trang and Tra Vinh./.