Bringing a spring of kindness to disadvantaged students in the mountainous areas of Quang Nam

This is a practical activity within the community support program implemented by Lifestart Foundation to promptly encourage, share and bring joy to disadvantaged students and their families during the Lunar New Year of Giap Thin. The total value of Tet gifts, bicycles and reference books is more than 2,000 USD (equivalent to 50 million VND).

It is known that Song Kon commune (Dong Giang district) is one of the communes in region III (particularly difficult commune), belonging to the ethnic minority and mountainous areas in the period of 2021-2025 according to Decision No. 861/QD-TTg issued by the Prime Minister on June 4, 2021 with a poverty rate of more than 50%.

At this donation ceremony, the Union of Friendship Organizations of Quang Nam Province and Lifestart Foundation visited Phan Chau Trinh Secondary School (Song Kon Commune, Dong Giang District), where 186 students are currently studying, of which 90% are Co Tu ethnic minorities, whose families are in especially difficult circumstances.

Accordingly, representatives of the Lifestart Foundation directly presented 68 gifts including 60 necessities to 60 ethnic Co Tu students studying at the school, each gift including rice, cooking oil, fish sauce, soy sauce, laundry detergent, shampoo, toothpaste, and dishwashing liquid. At the same time, 8 new bicycles were also presented to 8 students, helping them have a means of transportation to school every day.

The children who received the gifts and bicycles were ethnic minority students with difficult circumstances. The distance from their homes to school was very long, many of them lived nearly 10km away. The students were very happy to receive the gifts as the traditional Tet holiday of the nation was approaching.

Ms. Karen Leonard - founder of Lifestart Foundation shared: “We always emphasize the importance ofeducation , good health and quality of life for students in difficult circumstances. Therefore, giving Tet gifts is one of the annual community activities that we always prioritize to implement every Spring. We hope that these 60 meaningful gifts of necessities will partly solve the difficulties and hardships in life that the students' families are facing. In addition, Lifestart Foundation hopes that the new bicycles will help the students go to school more safely and conveniently, save travel time, as well as create conditions for them to overcome their circumstances, strive in their studies and become useful people for society, and be able to contribute back to the community”.

On this occasion, Lifestart Foundation also donated 123 textbooks and reference books to Phan Chau Trinh Secondary School, where library operations still face many difficulties and limitations. The book donation program is a practical activity to help the school improve the shortage of books, equip suitable books for students of each grade, create favorable conditions for searching for documents, promote reading culture as well as meet the reading and learning needs of students.

It is known that the program of giving gifts and necessities to people in difficult circumstances in the Central region is an annual activity of the Lifestart Foundation. During the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the LSF organization has given nearly 1,000 necessities to people in Quang Nam province with a total value of nearly 600 million VND, promptly joining hands to support people during the difficult epidemic period.

Most recently, Lifestart Foundation directly donated 100 necessities to 100 disadvantaged Ca-Dong ethnic minority students studying at Tra Don Ethnic Boarding Secondary School, Nam Tra My District, Quang Nam Province. The total value of the gifts is over 42 million VND.

In addition, nearly 1,500 glasses of fresh milk were also directly delivered by Lifestart Foundation to 80 disadvantaged children being treated at the Pediatrics Department, Quang Nam Regional General Hospital (Dien Ban town), contributing to improving the nutritional source for the children.

In 2023, Lifestart Foundation also carried out many other large community projects, such as giving 50 bicycles to disadvantaged students in Phuoc Son district (worth more than 80 million VND), donating and installing 15 65-inch smart TVs to support teaching at schools in the province with a total value of more than 220 million VND, providing drinking water treatment systems for 10 schools in remote areas with a total cost of more than 450 million VND, and many other meaningful activities./.

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