Students at Lam Bich Shelter have created interesting creative products under the guidance of teachers at Zuna Skills Training Academy - Photo: TL
Special Class
Recently, the atmosphere at Lam Bich Charity Shelter in Ward 5, Dong Ha City, seems to be more cheerful. During meals or during group activities, the children often talk about the skills classes that have just taken place. Every child is looking forward to the new class coming soon so that they and their friends can both study and play, and at the same time be equipped with necessary skills. The knowledge they gain from the class will follow them throughout the long journey ahead.
Talking about the free life skills class for children at Lam Bich Charity Shelter, Mr. Tran Trung Dung, Director of Zuna Skills Training Academy, could not hide his emotion. Mr. Dung said that in early 2025, he and some young businessmen visited and gave gifts to the shelter. Returning home, the image of the children lingered in his mind. Due to difficult circumstances, most of them were not really bold and confident. Although the nuns cared for and taught them, some of them still lacked the necessary skills. “Out of love, a thought came to my mind: Why not open a completely free life skills class for the children? When I brought this idea up for discussion, I received a lot of consensus and support,” Mr. Dung said.
After working with Lam Bich Charity House, Mr. Dung and the teachers at the academy agreed to organize 1-2 skilleducation sessions for the children every month. This was also a milestone, marking the birth of the special class. Up to now, the teachers working at Zuna Skills Training Academy still remember the eyes of the children, both excited and eager, and a little worried and hesitant, in the first class. That was not beyond the teachers' expectations. With rich experience, they immediately started playing connecting games, stirring up the common excitement. When everyone was ready for the class, the teachers shared and equipped them with skills on self-protection, preventing abuse... The end of the class was the activity of creating learning tools that all the children enjoyed.
To attract the children at Lam Bich orphanage, teachers at Zuna Skills Training Academy choose a topic, approach, and way of teaching for each lesson. Thanks to that, the children go from one surprise to another. Acquiring skills such as: Confident communication; effective reading; building a spirit of self-study; chatting in a crowd... also becomes easier. Not only that, teachers also bring the students at the orphanage many gifts, both material and spiritual. Ms. Phan Quynh Lam, a teacher in the class, shared: "Only through contact and teaching can we know that, in addition to life skills, the children also have their own worries and voids in their hearts. Therefore, my colleagues and I always try to become a spiritual support for the children, helping to "fill" those voids."
Children at Lam Bich Charity Shelter learn many good things from life skills education sessions - Photo: TL
Multiply the good
Not only the children, some nuns at Lam Bich Charity Shelter also arrange their time and work to participate in skill classes. Having been attached to the shelter for many years, Sister Nguyen Thi Thanh could not hide her happiness when seeing the smiles on the faces of the children she always considered her own. Sister Thanh said that in recent times, the shelter has received attention from many organizations and individuals. However, this is the first time that a skill class has been organized systematically at the shelter. "The class has lit up not only the children but also the nuns with faith and hope," Sister Thanh affirmed.
Sister Nguyen Thi Thanh said that she saw that faith and hope in the most severely disabled child in the family, Lam Bich Phuong Thao. Since birth, Thao was not fortunate enough to be healthy and whole like other children. She was abandoned at the gate of a pagoda, then fate brought her to the orphanage. Contrary to her weak body, Thao is very intelligent and likes to participate in social activities. Therefore, when the life skills education class was opened at the orphanage, Thao seemed to have found herself. She actively participated in every class. "I really look forward to the life skills classes. I find them very fun and useful for me," Thao said.
Like Phuong Thao, little Lam Bich Khanh Ha also looks forward to life skills lessons. Although she is only in first grade, Khanh Ha quickly catches up with her older siblings. Every time the teacher brings up a topic for discussion, her tiny hands are raised high. Ha's enthusiasm has also helped urge other children at Lam Bich Charity Shelter to quickly overcome their hesitation to learn good things and right reasons from their teachers. Thanks to that, each lesson brings positive changes. Khanh Ha shared: "I am very grateful to the teachers at Zuna Skills Training Academy. Thanks to the teachers, I have learned many good things."
Phuong Thao (left) takes a souvenir photo with the teacher who teaches her skills - Photo: TL
The stories of Phuong Thao, Khanh Ha and other children at Lam Bich Charity Shelter have brought joy and motivated teachers at Zuna Skills Training Academy to contribute more. What makes the teachers very happy is that not only themselves but also their children have been inspired by the class.
Director of Zuna Skills Training Academy Tran Trung Dung revealed that when he learned about the class, his son recently built the project "Dreams from books". Many times, he and his teachers went directly to Lam Bich Charity Shelter to teach some knowledge and skills related to reading, design... to the children there. In the near future, his son and his friends will expand the project, raise funds to help more disadvantaged children, including his friends at Lam Bich Charity Shelter.
The story that Mr. Tran Trung Dung shared is one of the vivid proofs for the meaning and spread of the special life skills class at Lam Bich Charity Shelter. That is also the motivation that urges Mr. Dung and other teachers at Zuna Skills Training Academy to be more persistent and make more efforts with the class. Everyone wants to multiply joy, light up faith and hope for unfortunate children and spread good things in life.
Tay Long
Source: https://baoquangtri.vn/tiep-suc-tre-mo-coi-bang-ky-nang-song-194626.htm
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