Warm Mid-Autumn Festival of love for children in flood-hit and disadvantaged areas

* On September 22 and 23,Provincial Youth Union in coordination with Nghe An Border Guard, Tien Phong Newspaperwith sponsors to organize the Mid-Autumn Festival program in flood-affected areas "Sharing love", bringing joy to students in Na Ngoi, Muong Ai and Muong Tip communes, Ky Son district.

These are border communes that have just suffered heavy damage due to floods, making the lives of the people and students face many difficulties and shortages...

The road to reach children in flooded areas is difficult and arduous. Photo: Le Thach

The program gave many practical and meaningful gifts to students in flood-affected areas. Photo: Le Thach

The program presented students of schools in 3 communes with a total of 1,552 warm coats, 300 school bags, 7,700 notebooks, 300 moon cakes, 300 star lanterns, 500 masks, 165 boxes of instant noodles, 2 sets of computers, some candies and sports equipment.

The program also awarded 15 Vu A Dinh scholarships from the Central Youth Union and scholarships from the Association for Promoting Education to students with difficult circumstances who strive to study well. The total value of the program's gifts is 500 million VND.

Giving gifts to students in difficult circumstances who strive to study well. Photo: Le Thach

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* Evening of September 22,Nghe An Press Alliancecoordinated with a number of units to organize the Mid-Autumn Festival and gave many valuable gifts worth nearly 300 million VND to children in Bao Thang commune (Ky Son).

The delegation gave gifts to poor students. Photo: Xuan Hoa

Here, along with organizing many cultural and artistic activities, the delegation gave nearly 700 Mid-Autumn gifts to nearly 700 children in Bao Thang commune, each gift including: school backpacks, moon cakes, milk, and candy.

Before that, the delegation organized free medical examinations and medicine distribution for people in Bao Thang commune; presented 50 cartons of milk and 100 scholarships, each worth 500,000 VND to students at Bao Thang Commune Ethnic Minority Secondary School. The total value of the gifts was nearly 300 million VND.

The Mid-Autumn Festival brought joy to nearly 700 children of the Khmu ethnic group in Bao Thang commune, Ky Son district. Photo: Xuan Hoa

Bao Thang is a remote and extremely disadvantaged commune of the border district of Ky Son, Nghe An province. This is the place where 100% of the Khmu ethnic group lives scattered in 5 villages with 462 households, over 2,142 people, the whole commune currently has nearly 63% poor households.