Hung Le
Dang Thi Huong with KOTO founder Jimmy Pham at the Victorian International Education Awards earlier this week at Government House in Melbourne, Australia - Photo: Courtesy of Koto
Huong received these two prestigious awards which were presented at the inaugural Victoria International Education Awards earlier this week at Government House in Melbourne, Australia.
With these two awards, designed to celebrate the extraordinary achievements of individual international students, Huong receives an A$20,000 scholarship which will help her continue her Bachelor of Business Entrepreneurship at RMIT University, Melbourne.
Huong in 2011 received an IELTS certificate in Vietnam which enabled her to win a scholarship to study the Diploma of Business Management at Box Hill Institute in Melbourne. Huong was later offered a second scholarship to study the Associate Degree of Commerce. In 2013, she was chosen as an International Student ambassador. She is also an active volunteer with KOTO alumni students.
Huong’s academic achievements are the more remarkable considering she had little formal high school education. She selflessly quit school in Vietnam when she was 12 years old so that her sister and brother could remain at school. Huong then worked by babysitting or selling sticky rice and banana cakes to support her family before going back to school in her later years thanks to the KOTO project in Hanoi.
Thanks to the scholarship, Huong is able to get closer to her dream of becoming a teacher. She also plans to come back to KOTO in Vietnam and help street kids and disadvantaged youths make their own dreams come true.
Đăng ký: VietNam News
