Vallet scholarships granted to students in central, Central Highlands provinces
The scientific and educational organisation "Meeting Vietnam" on August 30 presented 155 Vallet scholarships worth 2.4 billion VND (102,476 USD) in total to outstanding pupils and students in five Central Highlands and two south-central provinces.
Lam Dong (VNA) – The scientific and educationalorganisation "Meeting Vietnam" on August 30 presented 155 Vallet scholarshipsworth 2.4 billion VND (102,476 USD) in total to outstanding pupils and students in fiveCentral Highlands and two south-central provinces.
Excellent pupils with disadvantaged backgrounds in the Central Highlands provinces of Kon Tum, Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Dak Nong and Lam Dong and the south central provinces of Khanh Hoa and Ninh Thuan received 125 scholarships worth 13 million VND each.
The remaining 30 scholarships, each worth 26 million VND, weregranted to needy students with outstanding academic performances and those fromthe Universities of Da Lat, Nha Trang, and Tay Nguyen.
Established in 2001, the organisation’s Vallet ScholarshipFund has been sponsored by Professor Odon Vallet from France’s SorbonneUniversity. Over the past two decades, it has granted more than 350 billion VNDworth of scholarships to Vietnamese students.
This year, 2,100 Vallet scholarships, whose total valueexceeds 36 billion VND, are set to be presented to Vietnamese pupils andstudents across the nation./.
The organisation “Meet Vietnam” held a ceremony in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on August 30 to present Vallet scholarships worth 2.75 billion VND (119,000 USD) to 213 local outstanding students.
As many as 179 scholarships totally worth more than 2 billion VND (about 86,140 USD) have been presented to disadvantaged students in the Central Highlands and the south-central provinces of Ninh Thuan and Khanh Hoa.
The organisation Meeting Vietnam on September 25 presented Vallet scholarships to 146 pupils and 66 university students in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.
The Vallet Scholarship Fund and the Meeting Vietnam organisation presented Vallet scholarships to outstanding students from Binh Dinh, Phu Yen, and Gia Lai provinces at a ceremony in the south-central province of Binh Dinh on September 29.
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At the scholarship granting ceremony (Photo: VNA) 
