Fulfilling the dreams of poor students in the border area of ​​Soc Trang province

With the motto "Giving letters, transmitting hope", in 2022 and 2023, implementing the plan of the Border Guard Command on implementing the project "Army officers and soldiers help children go to school" in the period of 2021 - 2030; Soc Trang Provincial Border Guard has directed the stations to coordinate with the locality to review students with difficult circumstances in the coastal border area; propose support from superiors. Accordingly, the Provincial Border Guard has received support for 11 Khmer ethnic students with especially difficult family circumstances, orphaned parents, with a scholarship support level of 7,360,000 VND/student per school year.

Leaders of the Soc Trang Provincial Border Guard presented financial support to students in the coastal border area. Photo: Internet.

Thach Thi My Tuyen, a student at Trung Binh B Primary School, Tran De District, lost her mother during the COVID-19 pandemic. She has no home, so her father and daughter have to live with their uncle. Her father works as a hired hand to support the whole family, and his job is unstable.

In the 2023-2024 school year, entering grade 5, with the desire to maintain the achievement of 4 consecutive years of achieving the title of good and excellent, Tuyen shared: My family is poor, now the Border Guards have supported me with a scholarship, I am very happy, thanks to the scholarship, my studies are getting better and better, I promise to try to study well to not let down the Border Guards and teachers who have helped me.

Officers of Trung Binh Border Guard Station, Soc Trang Provincial Border Guard visited and encouraged Thach Thi My Tuyen. Photo: Internet.

Mr. Thach Col, parent of Thach Thi My Tuyen, said that his family's circumstances were difficult, he had to work for hire, and his income was unstable, so when his child received a scholarship, went to school with friends, and achieved good results, he was very happy and thanked the soldiers.

Another situation is Phan Truc Lam, Ward 1, Vinh Chau town, this school year she enters grade 7 at Chau Van Do Secondary School. Living in a family of 3 generations, her grandfather is sick and unable to work; her grandmother is also 64 years old and often sick but has to shoulder the burden of small business at the market, her mother only has a job as a baker, her father works as a factory worker in Binh Phuoc . Recently, the family was considered by the local authorities to support a great solidarity house.

Each child has a difficult situation, through the program "Helping children go to school" and from 2022 to now, there has been additional scholarship support from the project "Army officers and soldiers help children go to school" to share difficulties with their families and encourage them to have more faith and motivation to continue nurturing their dreams.

Colonel Le Van Anh, Deputy Political Commissar of the Border Guard of Soc Trang province, said that the unit recently organized a meeting to implement the 2023 project for 11 students in the coastal border area with a support rate of VND 7,360,000/student/year. Viettel Military Industry and Telecommunications Group, Soc Trang branch, donated 20 notebooks to each student. In addition, in coordination with the Provincial Education Promotion Association, 200 scholarships worth VND 1 million each were awarded to students in the "Step Up to School" program and Khmer ethnic students with difficult circumstances in the coastal border area of ​​Vinh Chau town, Tran De district and Cu Lao Dung district, on the occasion of the new school year 2023 - 2024.

Although the scholarships are not of great economic value, they will be a bridge to strengthen the close relationship between the army and the people, enhance solidarity, join hands to build and develop new rural areas, maintain political security, social order and safety in the coastal border area, spread love, be a great encouragement, and help the dreams of children in difficult circumstances to strive to excel in their studies, and become useful people for society.

The program “Helping children go to school” of the Border Guard of Soc Trang province, implemented since 2016, has provided regular monthly scholarships of VND500,000 to 36 children in especially difficult circumstances. This is a deeply humane activity, strengthening the relationship between the army and the people in the coastal border area./.

Bich Huong