Dantri completes school upgrade project in Thanh Hoa
Lying in a mountainous area some 40 kilometres from the district's centre, Xem Dot Primary School used to have only two classrooms for 35 students who are from the Thai ethnic group.
After over twenty years of use, the classrooms had badly deteriorated, posing dangers for teachers and students. There were no playgrounds, WCs, or clean water.
With financial support from Dantri's readers and other donors, the newspaper had invested over VND500 million to upgrade and build facilities at the school.
At the ceremony, Deputy Editor-In-Chief of Dantri Newspaper Nguyen Xuan Toan expressed his sincere thanks to donors and local authorities for supporting the project.
"We hope that the new facilities will improve the conditions for teachers and pupils at Xem Dot School," Toan said
Deputy Editor-In-Chief of Dantri Newspaper Nguyen Xuan Toan, speaks at the event.
Toan also shared that Dantri had built over 80 works, including nearly 40 schools nationwide, over the past 20 years.
"In addition to these projects, we're also carrying out other charitable activities, including building houses for low-income people and presenting student health insurance cards," Toan said. In this Thuong Xuan District, we've built six houses for low-income people and two schools in the past two years."
Attending the event, Cam Ba Dung, vice chairman of Thuong Xuan District People's Committee, said that the valuable support by kind donors, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids, and Social Affairs, and Dantri Newspaper, with nearly ten construction projects, has helped improve the lives of many low-income people in his area over the past two years.
Cam Ba Dung, vice chairman of Thuong Xuan District People's Committee, speaks at the event.
"I want to send my sincere thanks for all your support to our mountainous district, which is still facing many difficulties," the official said. We'll use all these projects to develop our locality further in the future.
At the event, Dantri Newspaper presented 30 health insurance cards for students at the school.
Speaking at the project's ground-breaking ceremony, the school's headmaster, Ha Xuan Sang, expressed his happiness that the teachers and students now have better facilities for their studying and teaching activities.
"Our school was built in 2003 and has badly deteriorated after 21 years," Sang said. "Our teachers and students have hoped for better new facilities, but due to the limited local budget, we've been unable to arrange investment for many years. We thank Dantri Newspaper and the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs for your great support."