In Hai Duong, the Association for Promotion of Education at all levels has had many creative ways to build and develop the Promotion of Education Fund, contributing to helping poor students have the opportunity to go to school.
Unlike his peers, Nguyen Khanh Ngoc, a student at Lai Cach Secondary School (Cam Giang), is in a particularly difficult situation, so his path to education is not easy. Ngoc's mother has cancer, her father is in poor health, and her brother is mentally ill.
In May 2024, the Cam Giang District Association for Promotion of Education coordinated with a business to award the "Lifting Dreams" scholarship to many disadvantaged students, including Ngoc. In the past, Ngoc received scholarships from the school and the Association for Promotion of Education at all levels in Cam Giang District on the occasion of the new school year. Despite difficult circumstances, Ngoc always strives to study hard, is a good student, and is an excellent student every school year.
Ngoc said: “I am very happy to receive a scholarship every year. The gift is a source of encouragement, creating more determination and confidence to help me overcome hardships and difficulties to fulfill my dream.”
Mr. Nguyen Huu Doan, Chairman of the Hai Duong Province Association for the Promotion of Education, said that there are many difficult circumstances like Ngoc's. Some children have material difficulties, lack spiritual needs, lack a family home, and some have to struggle with illness. Therefore, in recent years, with the attention of all levels and sectors, the Association for the Promotion of Education at all levels, in which the core is the Hai Duong Province Association for the Promotion of Education, has focused on directing and guiding the construction and development of the Education Promotion Fund at all levels in many forms. The Association also promotes, acts as a bridge, organizes many special support programs, awards scholarships, and honors poor students who overcome difficulties and achieve high academic achievements. Thereby, helping them have more determination, overcome difficulties and have the will to rise up.
To promote the movement of encouraging learning and talent, the Learning Promotion Fund plays an important role. The Provincial Learning Promotion Association has paid special attention to directing the construction and development of the Learning Promotion Fund and awarding scholarships in the direction of socialization, mobilizing a large number of social forces to participate.
The leaders of the Provincial Association for Promotion of Education regularly connect with organizations, businesses, and philanthropists, calling for sponsorship for the province's General Fund for Promotion of Education and creating relationships for district-level localities.
Thereby, many organizations and individuals inside and outside the province supported and sponsored the province's education promotion activities such as: "Learning Never Ends" Scholarship of the Vietnam Association for Education Promotion; Buddhist Sangha of Hai Duong province; Shinnyo-En Japan; Dinh Thien Ly Community Support Fund (Ho Chi Minh City); Nguyen Dinh Be Scholarship Fund; Ford Vietnam Company Limited in Hai Duong; Priest Duong Huu Tinh, Parish Priest of Hai Duong, Hai Duong Deanery...
District-level Education Promotion Associations are also flexible and creative, taking advantage of the government's support to approach and mobilize businesses to support and sponsor the Education Promotion Fund; mobilize businesses and philanthropists to establish an Education Promotion Fund. Typically, Cam Giang district has the Northwest - Cam Giang Talent Promotion Fund with a balance of 1.4 billion VND; Huy Khang Education Promotion Fund 500 million VND; Hoang Van Got Education Promotion Fund 50 million VND; "Going to School with Khuong Duy" Education Promotion Fund 30 million VND. Chi Linh city has the Tan Dan - Vina Education Promotion Fund with a balance of hundreds of millions of VND. The Ung Hoe Commune Education Promotion Association (Ninh Giang) has the Nguyen Van Thuan Education Promotion Fund with a balance of 1 billion VND...
At the grassroots level, each locality and each clan also has many good ways to mobilize support for the fund. Many localities have the form of contributing to the annual Scholarship Fund by household, many clans mobilize their successful children to sponsor the clan fund. Some localities mobilize support for the fund from organizations such as the Council of Schoolmates, the Council of Five, the Council of Countrymen...
Mr. Vu Duc Thanh, Chairman of Thanh Mien District Education Promotion Association, said that the total Education Promotion Fund in Thanh Mien District is currently the highest in the province, with nearly 18.9 billion VND, an increase of more than 5.1 billion VND compared to 2019. From this fund, the associations at all levels in the district have awarded tens of thousands of teachers and students with high achievements and awarded scholarships to disadvantaged students with a total amount of more than 7.4 billion VND. In particular, the awarding of scholarships in the direction of socialization has received special attention.
“The Education Promotion Fund is constantly growing, showing that the awareness of the whole society has fundamentally changed, spreading to every family and clan. Everyone is aware that they must care and take care of their own education and that of their children and grandchildren in the family,” said Mr. Thanh.
Over the past 5 years, the Association for Promotion of Education at all levels has awarded scholarships to about 110,000 disadvantaged students, rewarded about 785,000 students and about 35,000 teachers with a total amount of about 110 billion VND. Thereby, encouraging and motivating students and teachers to strive to excel. In the whole province, no student had to stop studying due to difficult circumstances.
In addition to cash, many disadvantaged students also received gifts in kind from philanthropists and businesses inside and outside the province such as electric bicycles, electric motorbikes, bicycles, tablets, books, school supplies; and building houses for students in especially difficult circumstances...
By June 2024, the Education Promotion Fund at all levels in Hai Duong province reached more than 163.1 billion VND, an increase of 50.1 billion VND compared to 2019. Thanh Mien district has the highest Education Promotion Fund in the province, more than 18.5 billion VND, followed by Ninh Giang with more than 15.4 billion VND, Chi Linh city with more than 15.2 billion VND... The management and use of the Education Promotion Fund are carried out publicly and transparently, used for the right purposes and with high efficiency, and settlement is carried out in accordance with regulations.