'Handless teacher' receives Beautiful Youth Award

In 2023, Ms. Le Thi Tham was specially recruited to be an English teacher in her hometown. The 'armless teacher' was just honored to receive the Youth Living Well Award.

'Handless teacher' Le Thi Tham shares at the 2023 Youth Living Beautifully Awards ceremony - Photo: LAM HAI

On the afternoon of December 12 in Hanoi, the Central Committee of the Vietnam Youth Union coordinated with units to organize the 2023 Youth Living Beautifully Award ceremony. After 3 months of implementation, the organizing committee received 228 applications for the Youth Living Beautifully Award. The selection council met and selected 20 outstanding young people to receive the award. Individuals were awarded in the following fields: study, scientific research, combat, national defense, maintaining order, security, safety, labor production and business development, education , volunteering for the community. Among the 20 outstanding young people receiving the award this year, there is an individual who is only 17 years old, such as Vo Hoang Hai (High School for Gifted Students in Natural Sciences, Hanoi National University), owner of two gold medals at the International Physics Olympiad. He is also the first student in the history of Vietnam to be on the team and win a gold medal at the International Physics Olympiad when he was only in grade 10.

It is a story about extraordinary will to live, overcoming fate to live a useful life for the community like the case of "armless teacher" Le Thi Tham (from Thanh Hoa ) - the character in the article in Tuoi Tre newspaper. In 2023, Ms. Tham was specially recruited as an English teacher in her hometown. Besides, there are inspirational people like "dark knight" Le Anh Tuan in Binh Duong . As an ordinary worker, Mr. Tuan turned his family's cargo truck into an ambulance and made nearly 400 free ambulance trips in the locality. At the ceremony, Mr. Nguyen Kim Quy - permanent vice president of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Youth Union - shared that the 20 outstanding young people receiving the award today have the "common denominator" of always being full of enthusiasm, desire to contribute, commit, full of responsibility, humanity, affection, and constant efforts to always move forward. He affirmed that their daily actions, gestures, and simple, beautiful stories contribute to continuing to depict and embellish the traditions of Vietnamese youth.

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