Foreign-funded projects support needy children in Thua Thien-Hue
The central province of Thua Thien-Hue on August 25 launched a project to support local orphans and poor children with assistance from an US organisation.
Thua Thien-Hue (VNA) – The central province of Thua Thien-Hue on August 25 launched aproject to support local orphans and poor children with assistance from an US organisation.
The project, worthabout 722 million VND (31,046 USD), covers Huong Tra town, and Quang Dien, PhuVang, A Luoi and Nam Dong districts.
The project aims toimprove the quality of the living conditions of locals, contributing to developingeducation and health care services for poor people in benefited localities.
Major activities ofthe project include health care and education support to locals through mobile check-ups,Hepatitis vaccine shots and free orthopedic surgeries to children with disabilities,provision of scholarships for poor children and financial assistance for the organisingof existing charity classes.
The project will alsohelp locals in production by giving locals breeding cows to residents incommunes of A Luoi and Nam Dong districts.
Earlier, the US-based organisationThe Compassion Flower also offered Thua Thien-Hue a non-refundable aid of 1.25billion VND to support poor locals and students.
The project targetsthe enhancement of living conditions for locals by bettering health careservices, and environment and education quality.
As many as 500 giftswere presented to needy families in Phu Loc, Nam Dong districts and Huong Thuytown. The organisation also built five wells to ensure fresh water to locals inHuong Thuy, Huong Tra towns and Phu Loc districts.
Along with 600 giftpackages including as bicycles, uniforms, blankets and raincoats to localchildren and students in Hong Thuy commune of A Luoi district, the project alsotaught 80 adults in Phu Vang district to read and write, and granted 600 other scholarshipsto poor students with good academic performance in the 2018-2019 school year.
Within the project’sframework, 500 winter gift packages were sent to poor locals in A Dot communeof A Luoi district as well as some remote areas of the province. Four childrenfacing extreme difficult conditions in Phu Dien commune, Phu Vang district, weresponsored, while 10 women in Huong Thuy town and Quang Dien district weresupported with vocational training.
On August 24, in theCentral Highlands province of Gia Lai, the province presented Nay Der scholarship,named after the creator of the first scripts of Jrai ethnic minority group, toover 500 students with high economic performance in the 2017-2018 school year.-VNA
Dien Bien has received more than 4.3 billion VND (189,157 USD) sponsored by the Save the Children International organisation to improve educational quality and equality for ethnic minority children.
At least 4,000 ethnic minority children aged three to six have benefited from the pilot of the Emergent Literacy and Math (ELM) toolkit to build foundational reading and math skills.
The central province of Thua Thien-Hue has received support from many foreign organisations in caring for children and people with disabilities in the forms of gifts and welfare projects.
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