Nghe An joins hands to support online teaching equipment for disadvantaged students

Covering computers for poor students

Nghi Tan is one of the most difficult wards of the city.Cua Lo townIn particular, this area has a large population and many school-age children, but many parents work far away, leaving their children at home with their grandparents, so care and attention is limited.

Cua Lo Town receives online learning equipment from local benefactors. Photo: PV

These are also the difficulties of schools in the area when switching to the form.online teaching. Meanwhile, in order to teach effectively, in addition to ensuring equipment and network infrastructure, the support of parents is very important. At Nghi Tan Primary School, before the new school year, according to a survey by the school, out of 1,136 students this school year, up to 156 students do not have equipment for online learning. Many of them are children of poor and near-poor households...

After 1 week of teaching, these worries seem to have disappeared because according to the school's statistics, 100% of students now have enough resources to study. Among them, there are students who study using computers supported by the school...

Cua Lo town receives computers supported by benefactors. Photo: PV

The two brothers Dau Gia Bao and Dau Tien Dat are among the first students of the school to receive support for installing computers at home. In the old house, this is probably one of the most valuable assets because the family's circumstances are very difficult, being poor. Therefore, although this year the two brothers, the older brother is in grade 3, the younger is in grade 1, the family did not know where to find computers for their children to study online. Knowing the situation of the children, the school, through calling for support and receiving "support" from the town, mobilized a desktop computer to lend to the family so that the children could start the new school year in time. Not only supporting the computers, departments, branches, and organizations also directly came to install, instruct the children on how to use the computers and connect with neighboring families to support the family's Internet network.

Phan Thi Tu Loan's case was also very difficult because her father passed away early and her mother had cancer. Due to difficult circumstances, the gift of a computer that the school promptly supported the family at the beginning of the new school year helped her from the very first days of first grade. With a computer, her studies were also more convenient, no longer worried about not being able to keep up with her classmates.

Equipping computers for disadvantaged students of Nghi Tan Primary School. Photo: PV

Up to this point, Nghi Tan Primary School is also one of the schools that has received great support from the town and from benefactors. Thanks to that, 13 students have been supported with computers for online learning. In addition, many other students have been supported with phones... Teacher Hoang Tram Anh - Principal of the school also shared: When starting online teaching, the school was very worried because the online learning conditions of the students in the school were not guaranteed. But now 100% of the students have been equipped with enough devices to study and that helps teachers a lot in organizing teaching.

When the policy of "temporarily stopping going to school but not stopping learning" and the Nghe An Education Department implemented online teaching, Cua Lo town was one of the localities taking the lead in implementing it. In particular, the Cua Lo Town Party Committee issued a special notice on implementing the school year's tasks in response to the Covid-19 epidemic. This document also affirmed that online teaching is "inevitable" in the current situation and requested schools to promptly review and have plans to support students in online teaching.

In particular, the Town Party Committee also called on the Party Committees and People's Committees of the wards to focus on promoting propaganda and actively join hands to support and care for learning equipment. Since the document was issued (August 31), after only 4 days, the entire Cua Lo town has joined together to "cover" all of the more than 2,000 students in the town with enough equipment to study. Of which, businesses and philanthropists have supported 49 desktop computers and 36 phones. The rest, brothers, authorities and families have donated or lent phones and computer equipment so that children in the whole area have the means to study.

Supporting equipment for disadvantaged students at Kim Lien Secondary School (Nam Dan). Photo: PV

All poor and near-poor students are supported by the town with computers or phones for studying. In other difficult cases, after the call of the Town Party Committee, everyone also contributed to support. We also plan that the phones given to disadvantaged students will be used by them for a long time to support them in their studies. As for computers, they will be left in schools and become school equipment libraries for continued use in cases where students cannot go to school and have to switch to online learning.

Mr. Phung Duc Nhan - Head of Education and Training Department of Cua Lo town

Don't let students drop out of school or study online.

Since the previous school year, after having to switch to online teaching, many schools in Nghe An province have mobilized organizations and individuals to lend or give students devices for online learning.

This school year, when online teaching and learning was deployed on a province-wide scale, this movement was further spread with the participation of all levels, sectors, organizations and individuals. In Dien Chau district, implementing the policy of the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee, on September 9, 2021,Fatherland Front CommitteeDien Chau district, Vietnam has issued a letter calling on cadres, civil servants, public employees, businesses, and philanthropists to support online learning facilities for students from poor households, near-poor households, and households in especially difficult circumstances.

Online learning equipment reception point at the Department of Education and Training of Dien Chau district. Photo: PV

After 2 days of implementation, the Campaign Committee received support from 42 units, individuals and schools; thereby calling for nearly 336 million VND, nearly 100 phones with 4G Sims to support students in the entire district to study online.

Mr. Mai Ngoc Long - Head of the Department of Education and Training of Dien Chau district said: When starting online learning, the whole district surveyed that only 75% of students had enough means to study. Therefore, from September 1, the Department of Education and Training called on parents and benefactors to join hands to buy equipment for their children to study online and promptly supplemented enough equipment for 11,000 students to study. The remaining cases, mainly from poor households, after the call of the Fatherland Front, promptly supplemented and up to now, the rate of having online learning equipment in the whole district has reached 98.8%. This is a great result, showing that all levels, sectors and people in the whole district have made great efforts, tried hard, and determined not to let the district's children miss school because of insufficient learning equipment.

Dien Chau District Police presented and supported local students with online learning equipment. Photo: Mai Giang

Since September 7, the Prime Minister has launched the program "Waves and computers for children" to call on localities, departments, and branches... to prioritize resources to support disadvantaged students without online learning facilities, ensuring fairness in accessing teaching and learning methods in the new situation. In Nghe An, implementing this call, the idea of ​​"Library of online learning support equipment for disadvantaged students" implemented by the Nghe An Provincial Fatherland Front is also continuing to spread to other localities throughout the province.

The main goal is to support over 40,000 poor, near-poor, and disadvantaged students to be equipped with adequate learning equipment if the locality has to switch to online learning.

Nghi Loc 5 High School supports equipment for students in difficult circumstances. Photo: PV

The joint efforts will also motivate poor students across the province, continuing the tradition of studiousness of the people of Nghe An. Thereby, it also implements the motto of "leaving no one behind", "stop going to school but not stopping learning" that the Nghe An Education Department is implementing in this special school year.

After 10 days of implementation (from August 30 to September 9), the Department of Education and Training - Nghe An Education Trade Union, districts, cities, towns, Departments of Education and Training, and schools have mobilized 60 computers and 583 phones with a total value of nearly 1.6 billion VND. All were promptly given to disadvantaged students in the province.

Previously, through a survey of the whole province, there were nearly 70,000 disadvantaged students without online learning devices (11%), of which 42,449 (6.7%) were students from poor, near-poor households, and those in extremely difficult circumstances. In addition, 23,919 (3.77%) students had places of residence without Internet connection.