30 years of opening free classes | Gia Lai Electronic Newspaper

(GLO)- Thanks to the charity class of teacher Vo Thi Xuan Dinh (911 Quang Trung, An Binh ward, An Khe town, Gia Lai province), many generations of poor students in the martial arts land have had their dreams fulfilled.

Special students

The wall is pale yellow, with some dark green moss stains. The simple rows of tables and chairs have also been stained by time after many generations of students. The hesitant but clear voice of student NTB (grade 4, living in Dak Po district) resounded in the middle of a summer afternoon: "I take care of the rooster, which now weighs 3 kg, its shape is plump, firm... firm... always threatening the hens". Teacher Dinh looked attentively at the notebook to help the autistic student express himself naturally. B. has a language disorder - a form of autism spectrum disorder in children, and has been in Ms. Dinh's class for 2 years now. She gently told about her special student: “In the first days of class, he stuttered, had difficulty expressing everything, and was messy; he wrote an essay with mixed sentences and many spelling mistakes. B.'s memory was very poor, he forgot what he said. But after 2 years, he improved a lot, his spelling mistakes decreased by 80-90%, and he read clearly. Every day, seeing him change little by little made me very happy.”

Most of the students who come to Ms. Vo Thi Xuan Dinh's class come from difficult circumstances. Photo: Hoang Ngoc

Ms. Dinh continued to move to the rows of desks to check the other students' practice of the exam questions for the final exam. Stopping at the smiling-eyed student Le Bao Loc (grade 3, Tran Quoc Toan Primary School, An Binh Ward), while checking the math questions he was doing, Ms. Dinh kindly asked: "Loc, have you been teased by your friends lately?". "Yes! When my friends teased me, I was very sad" - Loc said. Looking affectionately at the student with a cleft lip and palate, who still had difficulty speaking despite having undergone 3 surgeries, she whispered: "Loc, do you know that you are a brave boy? You have the love of everyone, especially your parents, that is joy, the happiest thing, why be sad anymore...". With just a few words of sharing and asking, Loc looked at the teacher and smiled brightly. A smile that he had to exchange for many painful surgeries to have.

The two situations mentioned above are just a few of the many special fates in the charity class of teacher Vo Thi Xuan Dinh. Students are of all ages, from grade 1 to grade 9, including poor students in Dak Po district. Around 5-6 pm every day, when the old students leave the classroom, Ms. Dinh quickly eats her meal to continue picking up students for the evening shift. Many children whose parents are farmers pick them up late at night, some stay to eat with her. “Most of the children have very special and difficult circumstances. Many of them have divorced parents and live with their grandparents, some are disabled, autistic, some were abandoned by their fathers when they were still in their mothers’ wombs… Therefore, in terms of personality, they are often shy and do not open up. Those are disadvantages and I want to help them become more confident,” Ms. Dinh shared.

For nearly a third of a century, Ms. Dinh has not only taught knowledge but also focused oneducating and building the students' personalities. Huynh Thi Kim Ngan (grade 9, Nguyen Viet Xuan Secondary School, Tay Son Ward, An Khe Town) shared: "I have been studying in her class since grade 1, and every year I have achieved the title of excellent student. She reviews old lessons, teaches new knowledge, and rewards us when we achieve good results in our studies. She is very strict when she is strict, but she is usually very happy and friendly. She knows whether we are happy or sad by observing."

Ms. Le Thi Tuyet Mai (group 3, An Binh ward, An Khe town) has two twins, Nguyen Thien Phu and Nguyen Thien Loc (grade 4, Tran Quoc Toan Primary School), who have been attending Ms. Dinh's charity class for many years. Ms. Mai is a single mother raising two young children and an elderly mother. She confided: "I work as a chili farmer for people and earn only 4-5 million VND/month. Luckily, Ms. Dinh's class teaches free of charge to children in the area, so my children can study, which helps ease the burden. My children have been studying here since grade 1. Although some parents and I are still in difficult circumstances, we still support her class a little bit every month so that she can buy pens and notebooks for the poor and orphaned children. Since attending Ms. Dinh's class, my children have been very obedient and self-motivated in their studies, so I feel very secure."

Descendants of the Vo family

Teacher Vo Thi Xuan Dinh is a descendant of the famous Vo family in the ancient An Khe land. The opportunity that brought her to education also originated from her family's education. She said: "My family has many children and grandchildren. I have 17 siblings and 30 grandchildren. My first grandchild is 30 years old this year, which is the same time I opened a class to teach. At first, I only taught the children in the house, but seeing many difficult circumstances, not having money to send their children to extra classes, I also taught for free." As the only person in the family who did not have a family of her own, and often took in poor students from all over to teach and feed them, her family members often said that Ms. Dinh was "crazy". The house was expanded to add more tables and chairs, welcoming more students to come and study. “Earlier this year, I had a mild stroke, fortunately I was treated promptly. During the weeks I was in the hospital and then returned home, I lost my voice and could not speak. During those days, many students still went to class, obediently sat at their desks to study and do their homework. I am 57 years old and have spent 30 years accompanying many generations of poor students, many of whom go to university and still come back to visit every year. The joy is there, there is no need to look far,” Ms. Dinh reflected.

A class in the charity class of teacher Vo Thi Xuan Dinh. Photo: HN

Ms. Le Thi Ngoc Dung, a civil servant of the An Binh Ward Department of Culture and Society, shared: “Over the past decades, Ms. Dinh has helped her students to the best of her ability with the view of giving them knowledge and confidence when they go out into society. That is a very precious heart.”

The house where teacher Vo Thi Xuan Dinh opened the charity class is the ancestral land of the Vo family, behind which is still the ancient An Cu communal house located on the family's land. The people of An Khe pass on to each other that the land of the Vo family in the past was "near National Highway 19 to the South, near the mountain (Hon Cong mountain) to the North, near Tan Lai village to the East, near Chi Thanh village to the West". After a hundred years of ups and downs, the land has become increasingly narrow, but the chivalrous hearts of the descendants of the famous family like teacher Dinh's charity class will remain forever in this martial land.

Ms. Vo Thi Xuan Dinh: “Once, a parent came to give flowers on Vietnamese Teachers’ Day, November 20, and inside was an envelope with 500,000 VND. For those who work in vegetable and chili farming, this is the money of several days of labor. Of course, I could not accept it. Being a teacher, receiving flowers on holidays is very happy, but I am very afraid that there is money in the flowers.”

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