Hanoi students paintings raise funds for bridge project in remote area

Some students and teachers at the Wellspring International Bilingual School came to Dantri/Dtinews' Hanoi Office on April 5 and donated VND10 million to a Dantri Bridge project.

According to a teacher, the money was raised by a group of grade-7 and grade-8 students from the sale of their paintings as they wanted to contribute to the construction of a Dantri Bridge project in the northern mountainous province of Son La.

"We know that in many difficult areas, many students find it dangerous going to school every day on deteriorating or makeshift bridges," the teacher said. "Some areas even have no bridges at all and students have to use boats and even swim to school. So our students decided to create paintings of the bridges and we co-operated with some parents to help them display and sell the paintings to raise money.

A student, Le Thu Minh, shared that their ideas came after they had some lessons on bridge design.

"We started to think about the bridges that Dantri Newspaper has been building for people in remote areas," she said. "We wanted to make something meaningful to contribute to society."

The paintings are displayed at an exhibition

Minh said that it took her group eight months to make the paintings. And then some teachers and parents helped them organise exhibitions to sell them.

Receiving the donations, the vice head of Dantri/Dtinews Hanoi Office, Nguyen Tu Mai sent her sincere thanks to the students and teachers for their nice and meaningful work.

Mai revealed that thanks to donations from organisations and individuals to the newspapers' charity programme, Dantri has so far carried out 72 construction works in remote and difficult areas nationwide including 46 schools and 26 bridges.