The foundation has provided the school children with new shoes, clothes, blankets, mattresses and mats to keep them warm in the freezing cold that has engulfed the province since early this year. Established in May 2016, the LO-ANH Foundation has undertaken 12 educational projects to date, including the construction and extension of many kindergartens, schools and boarding houses as well as providing financial care to poor ethnic children in the remotest areas in Ha Giang and Cao Bang provinces. The LO-ANH foundation was founded by Isabelle Muller, a German woman with Vietnamese roots. “LO-ANH Foundation (Loan Stiftung) is the brainchild of two very different life experiences: my own and my mother’s,” Muller said. “In the 1930s, my mother Loan (Lo-Anh) was not allowed to attend school because she was a girl. Inquisitive and determined, and in search of freedom and happiness, she risked her life for an education. In 1955, she left her war-torn country (Vietnam). But even in France, her new home, she was subject to discrimination and hostility because of the color of her skin. Despite living in abject poverty, she raised her five children, always emphasizing education was a great privilege.” Isabelle Muller and students of the elementary school in Vo Thau Chai, Hoang Su Phi district in Ha Giang province As Loan’s youngest child, Muller had strong memories of those tough times when they had no beds and were treated cold-heartedly by other people because they were poor. She remembered it being difficult for them to… [Read full story]
Educational managers, specialists and other stakeholders gathered today at a workshop in Hanoi to discuss the best ways to improve education for ethnic minority children from mountainous regions in Vietnam. The workshop organised by Save the Children and the Ministry of Education and Trainings aimed to review and evaluate the project :"Improving quality basic education for ethnic minority children in three mountainous provinces in Vietnam", which was funded by Japanese Social Development Fund, via the World Bank since 2009. With a total budget of USD 1,809,000, the project's goal was to support children from ethnic minority communities in three districts:…... [read more]
Save the Children in coordination with the Ministry of Education and Training held a conference to review the project in Hanoi on May 30. With a total investment of over US$1.8 million, the project funded by Japanese Social Development Fund since 2009, aims to help ethnic minority children between 5 and 14 years old in three districts of Muong Cha, Van Chan and Huong Hoa in Dien Bien, Yen Bai and Quang Tri provinces respectively to complete a full course of primary schooling and continue their secondary education. The project has also helped upgrade facilities at schools in the three…... [read more]
CPV: Ta Oi and Van Kieu ethnic minority children have new kindergarten rooms built by the sweat of US veterans in partnership with Boeing Company and the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation. Ten former US soldiers and pilots spent two weeks in the remote A Ngo commune, A Luoi district, Thua Thien - Hue province, near the Lao border, to work with local builders. They added three classrooms, a teacher's room, a kitchen, bathrooms and a playground to the kindergarten which was opened at an official ceremony today (September 18) "Getting a good start in education is important in this…... [read more]
PANO – The Education Publishing House, in coordination with the Dac Lac Provincial People’s Committee, granted books and notebooks to children of policy beneficiary and ethnic minority families. More than 3,000 sets of textbooks were given to children in Buon Ma Thuot city and notebooks were gifted to 100 ethnic minority children on July 28 th by the publisher. Additionally, it granted a great deal of reference books worth VND 40 million to school libraries. According to the publisher’s representatives, the event was part of its program aiming to support children from poor families in the southeastern, central and Central…... [read more]
