Scholarship "Giving Strength to School" for Ben Tre - Tien Giang Students: A Bridge to Help Dreams Take Flight

Standing Deputy Secretary of Ben Tre Provincial Party Committee Tran Thanh Lam said so at the ceremony to award the 2024 Support to School scholarship to 60 new students from Ben Tre and Tien Giang provinces on the morning of November 10 in Ben Tre.

Cây cầu chắp cánh ước mơ - Ảnh 1. — Standing Deputy Secretary of Ben Tre Provincial Party Committee Tran Thanh Lam (right) and Head of the Ben Tre - Tien Giang "Support to School" Club Nguyen Kim Lan awarded scholarships to new students - Photo: DUYEN PHAN

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Mr. Tran Thanh Lam shared that Ben Tre and Tien Giang share the Tien River, a land of beautiful rivers and are connected by bridges. However, there is a very special bridge because it was built from the "bricks" of kindness contributed by businesses and many uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters present and not present at this ceremony.

Every new student lacks many things, but when stepping on this bridge to help dreams take flight, you will be steadfast and supported to confidently step into life.

Mr. TRAN THANH LAM (Standing Deputy Secretary of Ben Tre Provincial Party Committee)

Học bổng Tiếp sức đến trường cho sinh viên Bến Tre - Tiền Giang: Cây cầu chắp cánh ước mơ - Ảnh 2. — Mr. Tran Thanh Lam - Standing Deputy Secretary of Ben Tre Provincial Party Committee spoke at the School Support ceremony on November 10 in Ben Tre - Photo: DUYEN PHAN

Sharing at the ceremony, two new students, Le Thi Ngoc Vy and Le Hoai Han, were choked with emotion. Ngoc Vy lost her father when she was just a toddler, and her mother single-handedly raised her and her siblings. But after her father passed away, the entire house and land had to be returned to her paternal family, leaving the mother and her three children homeless.

Every day, her mother cut grass, collected scrap metal, and helped with housework… as long as she could earn money to pay for her two children’s tuition. For 12 consecutive years, Vy has been an excellent student and has just become a student majoring in maritime science at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Transport.

Le Hoai Han was born into a poor family in Giao Thanh commune, Thanh Phu district (Ben Tre province). Han did not know his father, and his mother's job as a beadworker could not support seven mouths, so even though she had cancer, she had to work as a babysitter in Kien Giang to send money home for her children's education.

Han said he had to study hard to escape the poverty that had plagued his family for generations. Although he had to do all the housework, Han studied well, won many excellent student awards for many years and just became a student at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Management and Technology.

The new students were moved when participating in the exchange part of the program.

No one is left behind

Học bổng Tiếp sức đến trường cho sinh viên Bến Tre - Tiền Giang: Cây cầu chắp cánh ước mơ - Ảnh 3. — Journalist Tran Xuan Toan, deputy editor-in-chief of Tuoi Tre newspaper, speaks at the scholarship award ceremony - Photo: DUYEN PHAN

Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Tuoi Tre Newspaper Tran Xuan Toan said that each new student has a different situation but they have one thing in common: they are very determined. Mr. Toan emphasized that to become students of many famous universities, they have made great efforts despite their poor circumstances.

To the 18-year-olds, journalist Tran Xuan Toan hopes that each of you must live responsibly. First of all, for yourself when you are away from your family, you need to equip yourself with life skills, including health to ensure your studies and pursue your dreams. Next is the responsibility to your family and relatives because they have shared their food and clothes so that you can enter university and study better.

Finally, it is the responsibility to the community, to the uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters who gave me the scholarship by trying to study well to not only serve myself but also contribute to my hometown and village. "I believe that in 5 or 10 years, you sitting here will come back to build your hometown Ben Tre, Tien Giang to be more prosperous and beautiful" - Mr. Toan said.

Cây cầu chắp cánh ước mơ - Ảnh 4. — Mr. Nguyen Kim Lan with two new students Le Hoai Han (left) and Le Thi Ngoc Vy, and former student who received the Tiep Suc Den Truong scholarship - doctor Nguyen Minh Chi, is working at Cho Lach District Medical Center, Ben Tre (right) - Photo: DUYEN PHAN

Sharing her feelings at the ceremony, the head of the Ben Tre - Tien Giang "Support to School" Club, Nguyen Kim Lan, said that for 17 years, the Liaison Committee of Ben Tre and Tien Giang compatriots and the business club of the two provinces in Ho Chi Minh City have made efforts with the hope of helping students overcome difficulties and have a future to return to help their homeland.

"You children show gratitude by studying hard so that you can return to your hometown to serve your province. That is what we wish for" - Mr. Lan said.

There is a very special bridge that Tuoi Tre newspaper has built over the years, a bridge of happiness, compassion and dreams that new students are walking on.

From the first 86 new students from the two disadvantaged provinces of Tien Giang and Ben Tre who were supported, after 16 years, the Ben Tre - Tien Giang "Support to School" Club and the Tien Giang, Ben Tre Business Club in Ho Chi Minh City have supported 1,551 students with a total scholarship budget of over 17.3 billion VND.

We invite you to join us in School Support.

Tuoi Tre newspaper's 2024 School Support Program launched on August 8, expected to award 1,100 scholarships with a total cost of more than 20 billion VND (15 million VND for new students with difficulties, 20 special scholarships worth 50 million VND/scholarship for 4 years of study and learning equipment, gifts...).

With the motto "No young person can go to university due to poverty", "If new students encounter difficulties, Tuoi Tre is there" - as a commitment to support new students in the past 20 years of Tuoi Tre .

The program received contributions and support from the "Accompanying Farmers" Fund - Binh Dien Fertilizer Joint Stock Company, Vinacam Education Promotion Fund - Vinacam Group Joint Stock Company and the clubs "Nghia Tinh Quang Tri", "Nghia Tinh Phu Yen"; the clubs "Supporting School" Thua Thien Hue, Quang Nam - Da Nang, Tien Giang - Ben Tre, Quang Ngai and the Tien Giang - Ben Tre Business Association in Ho Chi Minh City, the German - Vietnamese Mutual Assistance and Cooperation Association (VSW), Nam Long Company, Nestlé Vietnam Co., Ltd. ... along with businesses, philanthropists and a large number of readers of Tuoi Tre newspaper.