Over 10.6 billion VND to support the program 'Waves and computers for children' for the Nghe An Education sector

On the afternoon of September 17, the Department of Education and Training held the launching ceremony of the program "Waves and computers for children".

“Waves and computers for children” is a meaningful program launched by the Prime Minister to promptly support equipment for students nationwide in the context of the complicated developments of the Covid-19 epidemic, many localities are temporarily not organizing students to go to school, switching to online teaching.

In Nghe An, online teaching is facing many difficulties. According to statistics, the whole province currently has 1,035 educational institutions from primary to high school with more than 635,000 students organizing online teaching.online teachingOf these, 69,727 students at all levels are lacking facilities and equipment (more than 42,000 students are from poor, near-poor, and disadvantaged households).

Director of the Department of Education and Training Thai Van Thanh spoke at the launching ceremony. Photo: MH

From the above reality, Nghe An Education Department has launched the program launching ceremony.“Waves and computers for you”to support online learning tools such as computers, laptops, smartphones, tablets, and televisions for students.

Based on the support, the Education sector will be responsible for organizing the reception, purchase, allocation and delivery of online learning equipment to students in a timely and appropriate manner. According to the plan, the launch period will start from September 17 to October 15, 2021.

Representatives of the Provincial Party Committee's Mass Mobilization Committee support phones for students. Photo: MH

At the launching ceremony, the Department of Education and Training and the Education Trade Union donated nearly 102 million VND to the program. The Provincial Party Committee's Mass Mobilization Commission and a number of businesses in the province provided phones, computers and thousands of 4G SIM cards to disadvantaged students in the province. The units also pledged to work with the Education sector to deploy backup plans and apply technology in teaching.

According to statistics, up to now, the total cash and in-kind value of the program "Waves and computers for children" in the whole province is nearly 10.7 billion VND, including 3.1 billion VND in cash, 110 computers, 1,863 phones, 5,500 4G SIM cards and 125 online learning accounts.

Business representatives present support to the Education and Training sector. Photo: MH

Speaking at the ceremony, Director of the Department of Education and Training Thai Van Thanh, on behalf of the industry, thanked and expressed gratitude for the support of the units with many meaningful gifts for students of the province.

Thereby, helping Nghe An Education sector to ensure program progress and improve teaching quality, solving difficult problems during the complicated Covid-19 epidemic.

More than 10.6 billion VND has been supported for the program. Photo: MH

Applying online teaching is not only to strictly implement social distancing and disease prevention, but will also be a golden opportunity to help students in the province become aware of forming and adapting to working in the digital transformation environment in the future.