Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund actively supported disadvantaged students and people in disaster-hit areas in 2017 (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – A meeting was held in Hanoi on February 27 to review Vu A DinhScholarship Fund’s activities in 2017 and embark on its working programme forthis year.
The fund, established in 1999 by the Ho Chi MinhCommunist Youth Union Central Committee, is designated to support ethnicminority students who are from poor families and achieve outstanding academicperformances.
At the meeting, former President Truong My Hoa,Chairwoman of the Vu Anh Dinh Scholarship Fund, said the fund attained the settargets and actively supported disadvantaged students and people indisaster-hit areas last year.
She also thanked the Thieu nien Tien phong, anewspaper for teenagers, for assisting the fund and wanted more coordination inthe time ahead.
In 2017, the fund presented 5,120 scholarshipsto ethnic minority students. Its “Vi Hoang Sa-Truong Sa” (For Hoang Sa-TruongSa) club granted 2,130 scholarships to students in coastal and insular areasand those who are children of soldiers on duty at sea.
Meanwhile, the “Mo duong tuong lai” (Pave theway to the future) project, carried out by the Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund andVinaCapital fund, finished the first phase last year, helping 46 studentscomplete courses at colleges and universities.
Thanks to the “Thap sang tuong lai” (Light thefuture) project, one high school and one kindergarten in Dien Bien province anda house for boarding students of a school in Yen Bai province were built.
Most of the students aided by the Vu A Dinh fundhave obtained good academic results, the fund reported, adding that it alsoorganised a number of charitable activities in mountainous, rural anddisaster-hit areas in 2017.-VNA
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