(Baonghean.vn) - During the summer, children in the mountainous areas of Nam Dan district eagerly call each other to go pick wild sim. Taking advantage of the summer vacation, trips to pick wild sim are not only fun but also help children earn extra money for school.
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| Every morning, the children eagerly call each other in groups, carrying their bags up the hill to pick blackberries. |
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| Wild blackberries grow naturally on hills and mountains, starting to ripen in mid-June and ending in season in early August of the lunar calendar. |
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| Ripe blackberries |
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| Le Thi Khanh Huyen (11 years old), in hamlet 11, Nam Xuan commune (Nam Dan) excitedly said: I am on summer vacation so I went with my friends in the hamlet to "eat sim" but seeing that there were too many ripe sims and people were buying them, I picked them to sell, to get money to buy pens and notebooks for the new school year. |
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| After a hill climb, the children carried home baskets full of sim fruits. |
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| After being picked, ripe blackberries are purchased by "traders" at home or sold to anyone in need for 11,000 VND/kg. |
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| Khanh Huyen, like many other children in the neighborhood, is very happy to receive money from selling SIM cards. They often send it to their mother to buy books for the new school year. |
Pham Dong
