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Recently, 100 Tam Ky students received Panko Tam Thang scholarships for the 2024 - 2025 school year sponsored by Panko Tam Thang Company Limited with an amount of 100 million VND.
According to Mr. Kim Yong Sock - General Director of Panko Tam Thang Company Limited, over the years, the scholarship program has been a bridge of love spreading the spirit of studiousness to students to overcome difficulties and become a positive source of encouragement for them to study and grow up.
This is the second time this school year that Panko Tam Thang scholarships have come to Tam Ky students (at the beginning of the year, 256 scholarships were awarded with a total value of 200 million VND), and it is also the 10th time that Korean enterprises located in Tam Ky have awarded scholarships.
According to Mr. Bui Tan Nha - Vice President of Tam Ky City's Association for Promotion of Education, from 2015 to now, the company has sponsored the City's Association for Promotion of Education annually from 100 million VND to 280 million VND to grant scholarships to 200 to nearly 400 students. In total, over the past 10 years, 3,404 scholarships have been granted, with a total cost of nearly 2.4 billion VND.
Besides Panko Tam Thang Company Limited, there are 15 Korean enterprises operating in Tam Thang Industrial Park and in recent years, the group of Korean enterprises here (now the Korean Business Association in Quang Nam ) has had many practical activities to support poor but studious students.
For the 6th time of scholarship sponsorship, the Korean Business Association in Quang Nam awarded 100 scholarships to elementary, middle and high school students with difficult circumstances in the city, each worth 1 million VND (a total of 733 scholarships were awarded over 6 years with a total cost of 600 million VND).
The representative of the Korean Business Association in Quang Nam said that Korean businesses always want to share difficulties with poor students, thereby promptly encouraging them to strive to overcome difficulties and excel in their studies; it is also the sentiment and responsibility of the unit towards social security work in the locality.
The Korean affection for Tam Ky children also includes the Korean Lotus Scholarship. As a foreign non-governmental organization, operating in the field of social welfare andeducation support, the Korean Lotus Village International began coming to Tam Ky in 2005 through a scholarship program for students in difficult circumstances.
Over the past 20 years with 42 times of organization, the Korean International Lotus Village in collaboration with the Tam Ky Education Promotion Association has awarded nearly 3,000 scholarships with a total cost of nearly 2 billion VND.
According to Mr. Cho Dang Ho - President of the Korean International Lotus Village, the scholarships help poor families have more conditions for their children to study properly.
In addition, the Welfare and Education Complex with Ducksan Kindergarten, Hanka Haldang Foreign Language Center, vocational training facilities... contributes to implementing social security policies in the area.
The Silent Americans
Among the scholarships for Tam Ky children, something quite special is that there are two scholarships named after American veterans of the Vietnam War who were present on the Quang Nam battlefield.
The first was the Alan L. Brooks scholarship of Dr. Brooks - an American veteran who worked in the US Navy Medical Corps in 1970 and worked at Quang Tin Provincial Hospital (before 1975).
It was not until 1993 that he had the opportunity to return to Vietnam and visit and present gifts to Tam Ky Regional General Hospital (now Quang Nam Provincial General Hospital). Through the connection of Tam Ky leaders, he established a scholarship fund for poor students who overcome difficulties and study well, and since then, it has been awarded 32 times with more than 1,500 scholarships, with a total cost of about 2 billion VND.
Not having the same happiness as Dr. Alan L. Brooks, veteran Allen Nelson could not return to the place he had experienced due to serious illness and died early. After his death, his friends carried out his last wish, through the “Green Leaf” Scholarship Fund, to Tam Ky to award the first scholarship in 2009 under the name Allen Nelson Scholarship.
The 16-year journey of the Allen Nelson scholarship has been a companion to disadvantaged students in Tam Ky with 721 scholarships, totaling nearly 400 million VND.
Although I have never seen Allen Nelson, his wishes and the scholarships he has sponsored over the past 16 years have helped many generations of Tam Ky students overcome some of their difficulties to continue going to school, studying, and playing with friends.
Source: https://baoquangnam.vn/tam-ky-tro-luc-cho-hoc-sinh-ngheo-vuot-kho-3155911.html
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