Many ways to keep students in mountainous areas warm

(Baonghean) -These days, in the mountainous district of Tuong Duong, the temperature at night and early morning has dropped sharply, causing great impacts on the daily life and health of the people, especially students in remote schools and border areas of the district. To ensure the health of students in the cold winter, schools are implementing many solutions to prevent cold for them.

Students of Tam Hop Commune Border School receive gifts from benefactors.

Arriving at Na Be school, Xa Luong Kindergarten, Tuong Duong district on the first day of the Northeast monsoon. The school has 100% Mong and Kho Mu ethnic children, who are in difficult circumstances. Some parents do not really care about their children, so they still let them wear light clothes to class. Therefore, the school assigned teachers to each household to propagate, dress their children warmly before going to class, and contribute more firewood to make a stove to warm the children on cold days.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Hanh - Vice Principal of Xa Luong Kindergarten added: “The school focuses on propaganda work for parents, dressing children warmly and organizing boarding for foster families, instructing parents to bring food and rice with warm lunch boxes. Homeroom teachers also prepare blankets, mats, stalls for children to take a nap and close windows and main doors when children sleep to avoid drafts. In addition, teachers and benefactors also donate clothes and warm blankets to keep children warm.”

Not only kindergartens, but also many schools in other mountainous communes of Tuong Duong district have been actively taking the initiative to prevent and combat the cold for students. For example, Yen Tinh Secondary School, although the school organizes boarding for students, it has not been recognized as a boarding school. Therefore, all equipment, supplies, beds, and food are purchased and improved by teachers and parents themselves, and the school's social mobilization is very limited.

Recognizing that this school year will have complicated weather conditions, the school has coordinated with local authorities to call on agencies, businesses, and philanthropists to donate blankets, mosquito nets, and warm clothes. However, in reality, most of the school's students are from poor households and nearly 70% of them live 8-14km away from the school. Therefore, to stabilize the number of students and ensure the health of the students, the school has paid great attention to coordinating with the parents' association.

Mr. Luong Ba Duy - a parent in Pa Ty village said: "This cold winter, we parents help the school build fences, cover dormitories, prepare warm blankets for our children, and then plant vegetables and weed the school so that our children have more food and feel less cold."

Members of the Tuong Duong Association give warm winter gifts to students of Mai Son Primary School.

Due to climate change, erratic weather, winter comes earlier, especially in highland and border communes such as Nhon Mai, Mai Son, Huu Khuong, Tam Hop... the weather often changes suddenly, the temperature sometimes drops below 100C, affecting the daily life and health of people as well as teaching and learning activities of schools.

Learning from previous school years, this year the Department of Education and Training of Tuong Duong district has proactively deployed early to schools; For schools in mountainous areas that often have dense fog, the Department of Education and Training of the district allows schools to proactively change their class schedules. During the course of study, teachers can light fires to warm students, do not organize outdoor activities, on cold, drizzly days, schools proactively postpone class times, fence and windproof dormitories and classrooms. At the same time, take advantage of other school spending sources to purchase more blankets and food sources, contributing to increasing the children's food rations...

Instead of letting the children do outdoor activities during recess, teachers and students of Mai Son Boarding Secondary School lit a stove to warm themselves right in the teachers' dormitory.

Mr. Kha Van Lap - Deputy Head of the Department of Education and Training of Tuong Duong district added: "In the past time and it is predicted that in the coming time, the weather has been very erratic, even severe cold may occur in the coming time. The Department of Education and Training has issued an official dispatch directing schools to have forms of propaganda to students and parents, ensuring school facilities. Especially for schools that organize boarding meals, ensure nutrition and ensure warm water in winter for children".

Not being subjective with the current weather situation, the Department of Education and Training of Tuong Duong district continues to direct schools in the district to have many practical and specific solutions so that this winter, students in the highlands of Tuong Duong will not have to drop out of school due to the cold, helping parents feel more secure when their children go to school, ensuring learning discipline and maintaining the rate of student attendance./.

May Huyen

(Xiangyang Radio)