A Japanese non-profit organization awarded 720,000 Japanese yen (US$6,984) in scholarships to 72 needy high-achieving students in Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday.
The Niigata International Volunteer Center (NVC) cooperated with the Ho Chi Minh City Student Assistance Center to present the students, enrolled at 19 junior colleges and universities in the city, with 10,000 Japanese yen ($97) each at a ceremony in the southern metropolis.
Those who received the grants come from poor families in other provinces and have shown good academic performance at their respective schools.
They are working part-time jobs, such as private tutoring, leaflet distributing, and working in restaurants in order to support themselves, but they have still managed to fare well in school.
The Japanese center will continue awarding the same amount of money to these students every year until their graduation.
“I feel moved to receive this scholarship as it will help to partly cover my expenses for the rest of my student life,” local newswire VnExpress quoted Trinh Ngoc Thach, a student at the Ho Chi Minh University of Medicine and Pharmacy, as saying.
The grants serve as a motivation for impoverished parents to keep trying to support their children’s higher education, according to Nguyen Thi Nguyet, whose daughter is enrolled at the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts University.
NVC was established in 1989 to contribute to international cooperation, global understanding, and human resource development in local areas.
Its main overseas activities include helping handicapped children and providing scholarships for university students in Vietnam, sponsoring educational projects in Bangladesh, and supporting forest and natural resource conservation to improve life in rural Laos.
The center has granted 9.78 million Japanese yen ($94,555) in scholarships to 927 Vietnamese students since 1998.
Besides cash, NVC has also sponsored English classes for these students.
Đăng ký: VietNam News