Dantri/TiNews readers have participated in a campaign to donate one million notebooks to children in disaster-hit localities in Vietnam.
Children in Phu Mu Hamlet, Jo Ngay Commune in the central province of Quang Nam’s Dong Giang District crossing a flooded road to school
The move is aimed to aid children living in places afflicted by natural disasters to have access to learning facilities to begin the 2011-2012 new school year.
Last year, floods destroyed hundreds of schools in the central region. Notebooks and learning equipment were ruined, interrupting study of thousands of students.
The education sector incurred damages estimated at VND705 billion (USD34.1 million) during the year. As many as 383,000 textbooks were destroyed, equivalent to VND27 billion (USD1.3 million).
In end June 2011, tropical storm Haima, the second of its kind to hit Vietnam this year, ravaged some localities in the country, causing serious damages in the central province of Nghe An. Mountainous districts including Que Phong, Quy Chau, Quy Hop, Nghia Dan, Ky Son and Tuong Duong were hardest hit. The storm left hundreds of local families destitute.
Shortly after the campaign was launched, DTiNews received the first donation worth VND5 million (USD) from Nguyen Hoai Bac, Chairman of Vietnam-Canada Vocational Training School in the northern province of Hai Duong. Bac’s donation was able to buy around 1,000 textbooks.
Mr. Nguyen Hoai Bac handing over his donation to DTiNews Editor-in-chief Pham Huy Hoan
Charitable donations please send to:
1. Code of donation No. 167 (Readers are encouraged to make donations online at Tấm lòng Nhân Ái (Compassionate Hearts) page of Dantri) |