Voice of Vietnam and Vietnam News Agency donate Green Library project in Yen Thanh

On the afternoon of November 17, the Voice of Vietnam and Vietnam News Agency held a handover ceremony for the "Green Library" project to Duc Thanh Secondary School (Duc Thanh Commune, Yen Thanh District). Attending were comrades: Tran Minh Hung - Deputy General Director of the Voice of Vietnam; Le Quoc Minh - Deputy General Director of Vietnam News Agency; representatives of Yen Thanh District leaders and sponsoring units. Photo: Thanh Quynh

Duc Thanh Secondary School currently has 12 classes with 420 students. In recent years, despite the attention of the local Party Committee, government and education sector, due to economic difficulties, the school's facilities are still lacking. Therefore, in early 2019, the Youth Union of Voice of Vietnam called on sponsors to join hands to build a "Green Library" at Duc Thanh Secondary School (Duc Thanh commune, Yen Thanh district).

After 3 months of implementation, the "Green Library" project built by the Youth Union of Voice of Vietnam has been completed with an area of ​​over 100m2.², has an outdoor reading area and 4,000 books of all kinds. The total construction cost of the project is more than 400 million VND.

Representatives of the Voice of Vietnam Radio handed over the Green Library project to Duc Thanh Secondary School, and representatives of the Vietnam News Agency donated 1,000 books to the library. Photo: Thanh Quynh

In conjunction with the Youth Union of Voice of Vietnam, the Youth Union of Vietnam News Agency has coordinated to call for support of 70 sets of tables and chairs, 10 gifts for students in difficult circumstances and donated a Dinh Huu Du bookcase with nearly 1,000 books to the library.

With richness in genres, diversity in fields and abundance in quantity, the books in the library have basically met the reading and research needs of teachers and students of the school. The project is designed with open space to create the most comfortable for students to love reading culture more.

The library has more than 4,000 books of various genres and fields to help teachers and students access knowledge in teaching, learning and entertainment. Photo: Thanh Quynh

Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Tran Minh Hung - Deputy General Director of Voice of Vietnam hoped that the "Green Library" project would become a meaningful gift to encourage and create conditions to meet the reading needs of teachers and students in schools.

In particular, the project was completed on the occasion of Vietnamese Teachers' Day, November 20, as a meaningful gift for teachers at Duc Thanh Secondary School. This special gift will inspire the habit of reading books every day in students, helping them have the opportunity to access new knowledge.

Representatives of Voice of Vietnam, Vietnam News Agency, Yen Thanh district, the school and sponsors cut the ribbon to inaugurate the library. Photo: Thanh Quynh

On this occasion, comrade Nguyen The Ky - Member of the Party Central Committee, General Director of the Voice of Vietnam, Chairman of the Central Council for Theory and Criticism of Literature and Arts also presented the library with books he wrote and compiled.

On this occasion, the sponsors also presented 10 gifts to 10 students in difficult circumstances. Photo: Thanh Quynh