Tay Ho: Spreading the spirit of lifelong learning

The event attracted nearly 1,000 people including teachers, students, parents and veterans in the district.

The seminar program to meet historical witnesses within the framework of the event "Vietnam Book and Reading Culture Day 2025" in Tay Ho district. Photo: Nguyen Anh

With the theme "Reading Culture - Connecting the Community", "Entering the era of national growth with books", "Reading - enriching knowledge, nurturing aspirations, promoting innovation and creativity", this year's Book and Reading Culture Day in Tay Ho district is not only an annual activity in response to Vietnam Book Day (April 21), but also a special event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification (April 30, 1975 - April 30, 2025).

The presence of historical witnesses who directly participated in the Ho Chi Minh campaign contributed to the Great Victory of Spring 1975, and the examples of studiousness and reading have had the effect of spreading the spirit of lifelong learning and "passing the torch" to generations of students sitting in school, the future owners of the country.

Vice Chairwoman of Tay Ho District People's Committee Bui Thi Lan Phuong speaks. Photo: Nguyen Anh

Speaking at the program, Vice Chairman of Tay Ho District People's Committee Bui Thi Lan Phuong Emphasizing that through activities in response to Book and Reading Culture Day, Tay Ho District People's Committee hopes that each student and each citizen will appreciate knowledge more, nurture a passion for reading, and be eager to learn to gain knowledge to develop themselves and contribute to building the Capital more civilized and beautiful.

Within the framework of the event, a discussion with historical witnesses took place under the theme “The Soldier’s Book Page”. Many students, parents and delegates had the opportunity to interact with Colonel, writer Nguyen Khac Nguyet, who drove tank number 380 straight into the gate of the Independence Palace at noon on April 30, 1975; Colonel, military history and culture researcher Nguyen Huy Toan. Historical witnesses shared heroic memories of roads filled with bombs and bullets.

With the motto “Bookcase on the shoulder, soldiers overcome thorns to protect the Fatherland”, the brave soldiers of the past carried books as if they were carrying a source of life, knowledge and faith into the battlefield full of bombs and bullets. Wherever they were, they built small bookcases to read, to study, to enrich their souls as a precious spiritual “medicine”. From there, they added will and nurtured the desire to win, regain independence and freedom for the nation.

Awarding groups and individuals with outstanding achievements in spreading reading culture. Photo: Nguyen Anh

Rewarding students with excellent achievements. Photo: Nguyen Anh

Within the framework of the event, there was a children's painting contest with the theme "Entering the era of national development with books" with nearly 70 entries from 20 schools; a video clip contest "My bookshelf"; a program "Ring the Golden Bell" in English with the support of Atlantic Five-Star English Center.

There was also a book donation event to raise funds to develop a reading culture in disadvantaged areas with a total of 3,440 books donated.

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