Humane “flames” have spread more and more widely, contributing to encouraging and fostering dreams and aspirations of poor and handicapped students to fly high.
Benefactors' support and encouragement have been the motivation for disadvantaged pupils and students like Nguyen Thi Anh Ngoc to rise up to achieve their dreams and ambitions
Aspirations fueled
I met Nguyen Van Dien, father of Nguyen Thi Anh Ngoc, Miss Crescent Moon 2013, at the scholarship presentation ceremony “Sacombank – Nurturing Dreams” in 2013.
Receiving the supportive gift of VND5 million/ year (fourth time) from Hai Duong Sacombank for his daughter, Dien emotionally said, “I never thought that my daughter would be able to go this far. Although she is not lucky enough to have healthy legs, the community’s support and encouragement have helped my family and her have more energy to rise up.”
Ngoc is now a senior of the Psychology Faculty, University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Ha Noi) with the dream of becoming a psychotherapist.
“The scholarship annually granted by Sacombank is a source of great encouragement to us, helping us feel that we are not alone on the way to achieve knowledge for ourselves,” Ngoc gratefully shared via email.
Ngoc revealed that she was thinking about a project of psychological support for the handicapped.
Hoang Trung, a freshman in drilling – exploitation of PetroVietnam University, is completing documents to request further enjoyment of “Green Leaf Scholarship” (from the fund founded in 1991 by teacher Nguyen Duc Hoe, Rector of Dong Du Japanese School, Ho Chi Minh city, in collaboration with the Okinawa – Vietnam Friendship Association).
Trung’s family in Hai Duong city is classified as extremely difficult. His father, a wounded soldier unable to work, has to go to hospital every month for treatment. His mother is a self-employed laborer; thus, her income is low and unstable.
From the 7th grade, Trung has been introduced to receive the support from “Green Leaf Scholarship” thanks to the teachers at Le Quy Don Junior High School (Hai Duong city).
Trung feels particularly thankful because the benefactors supporting him turn out to come from a country as far as Japan. Therefore, he always takes it as the motivation to strive for improvement in learning with best results.
“Like a mission”
More and more philanthropists, enterprises, and units have shouldered their share of responsibility for the humanitarian mission with the same purpose of supporting and helping disadvantaged pupils and students.
“The fact that Hai Duong Sacombank presents the scholarship to Anh Ngoc is an exception as compared with the bank’s criteria of assistance for pupils and students. Nonetheless, noticing Ngoc’s energy and will to overcome difficulties through the provincial Learning Promotion Association, Sacombank exceptionally supports her with VND5 million per academic year until she graduates,” said Dinh Khac Hiep, administrative official in charge of Hai Duong Sacombank’s scholarship fund.
Since 2009, Hai Duong Sacombank has awarded 15 scholarships, worth VND2 million each, to students and top scorers in university entrance exams.
In addition, the bank also has a program of recruiting students and pupils once receiving scholarships to work for Sacombank. Two of them in Hai Duong have been recruited so far.
Hoang Van Bao, Standing Vice Chairman of the Hai Duong provincial Learning Promotion Association, assessed that the participation of benefactors, organizations, units, and enterprises in the cause of promoting learning and talent has not only created many more opportunities for disadvantaged pupils and students but also affirmed and contributed to raising the socialization nature of the activity to a high degree.
Through many “channels”, such as Learning Promotion Associations at all levels, schools, learning promotion families, etc., dozens of big units and enterprises in the province have agreed to sponsor, assist poor students.
Typically, Hai Duong Agribank donates VND170 million – VND200 million/ year to present scholarships to poor students throughout the province; Hoa Na company, Big C supermarket, Dong A company, Buddhist nun Thich Dieu Huong (residing at Phong Hanh pagoda, Hai Duong city), Prudential, Silkroad Ha Noi JSC. (Dai An industrial park), etc. have supported studious children in Hai Duong with hundreds of scholarships and many books, pens, learning aids, bicycles, etc.
THU MINH
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