A pagoda in Ninh Kieu District, Can Tho, has helped hundreds of poor students in Mekong Delta localities for years.
Kien Na Rieng, from Soc Trang Province, is a second-year student of Can Tho Medicine University. Due to her family’s financial situation, he came to Pitu Khosa Rangsay Pagoda to live, where she was welcomed and made to feel at home.
Pitu Khosa Rangsay Pagoda
Pagoda nuns encourage the students who reside there to study hard and join in extracurricular activities, such as sport and charity activities. Each time a university or college entrance exam is held, the pagoda provides accommodation and meals to hundreds of students free of charge.
Danh Dat Huynh, who has been living at the pagoda for nearly a year, said he likes the living conditions there, where there are rooms for reading and also more relaxing activities like watching a bit of television at the end of the day.
Huynh shares one room with seven other students from surrounding provinces.
The pagoda has helped hundreds of poor students in Mekong Delta localities for years
Superior Monk, Ly Hung, said that over the past decade, the pagoda has accommodated or supported in some way more than 500 students at the request of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front.
Hung added that most of students who have lived at the pagoda were successfully employed graduation. He has even taken steps to help place students in positions at local companies.
Recently, Ly Hung asked for a collected donation of VND2 billion (USD48,000) to build two dormitories for students there.
