Viettel Quy Hop awards 10 scholarships 'For studious children'

(Baonghean.vn) - On November 3, at Yen Hop Secondary School, the Military Telecommunications Group - Viettel Quy Hop Branch coordinated with the District Education Promotion Association to award 10 scholarships, each worth 1 million VND, to students of Yen Hop Primary and Secondary School.

These scholarships are part of the program "For studious children" implemented by the Military Telecommunications Group in coordination with the Ministry of Education and Training, the Vietnam Association for Promoting Education and the Voice of Vietnam for 10 years from 2014 to 2024 nationwide with a total budget of 260 billion VND.

Awarding scholarships to primary and secondary school students in Yen Hop commune.

The pilot program is implemented in primary and secondary schools in extremely disadvantaged communes, border communes, safe zone communes under investment of Program 135 and extremely disadvantaged communes in coastal and island areas.

Beneficiaries are typical primary and secondary school students with difficult circumstances but with the will to improve in life and in study and training, and have not received support from any study promotion programs.

Every year, each commune in the policy area is granted 10 scholarships, each worth 1 million VND/year, including 05 scholarships for primary school students and 05 scholarships for secondary school students.

In 2016, in Nghe An, the scholarship program "For studious children" was granted to 119 communes in 14 districts with 1,190 scholarships, worth 1.19 billion VND/year.

In Quy Hop district alone, the Military Telecommunications Group - Viettel Quy Hop Branch awarded scholarships to 140 poor, studious students in 14 policy communes with a total amount of 140 million VND.

The study encouragement program "For studious children" is one of the activities of Viettel Group to encourage and motivate materially and spiritually for primary and secondary school students with difficult circumstances in Quy Hop district to excel in studying, working and training./.

Minh Nguyet