Scene at the event (Photo: VNA) HCM City(VNA) – “We are making efforts to give ethnic minority students biggerscholarships so they can cover living expense, study well and become goodcitizens,” said former Vice President Truong My Hoa, who is President of Vu ADinh Scholarship Fund.
She made the remarksat the award ceremony of Vu A Dinh scholarships for impoverished ethnicminority students in Ho Chi Minh City on April 3.
The fund provides about5,000 scholarships to needy students every year, according to the fundPresident.
Since the start of the 2017-2018 academic year, Vu A Dinh scholarships, worth 1– 1.5 million VND each, were presented to poor students in 39 cities andprovinces throughout the country as a gesture to recognize their hard work andmotivate them to continue education, she noted.
In this school year,the Vu A Dinh scholarships have been award to over 161 excellent students fromdifficult backgrounds who are studying at schools in HCM City.
This year, Be PhuongThao, a third-year student of the University of Science, Vietnam NationalUniversity HCM City, received a scholarship for the second time.
“The scholarship has helped me cover parts of my living expenses and gave memotivation to continue study to become a math teacher and serve my hometown,” saidThao, who is from the Nung ethnic minority group.
In addition, the Vu ADinh Scholarship Fund has also hosted a number of programmes to support ethnicminority students, including the “Mo duong tuong lai” (Pave the way to thefuture) project which provided education for 100 ethnic minority girls, 50 ofwhom has graduated with Bachelor’s degree.
The other, “Thap sangtuong lai” (Light the future) project, is designed to provide education forstudents from 6th to 12th grades. Some 270 students havebenefited from the project so far.
The Vu A DinhScholarship Fund, established in 1999 by the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth UnionCentral Committee, aims to support ethnic minority students who are from poorfamilies and achieve outstanding academic performances.-VNA
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