Reporter of the People’s Army Newspaper had a chance to join the delegation of the Department of Economy under the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defense to visit the school right on the occasion of the Vietnamese Teachers’ Day (November 20). It is a complex of wooden houses, painted with blue and yellow colors with red roofs and located among locals’ temporary houses on the lakeside. A board with the inscription, “Vietnamese primary school presented by Military Region 7 of the Vietnam People’s Army” in the Vietnamese and Khmer languages is attached to the wall of the school. The Vietnam Primary School on Tonlé Sap Lake According to Thai Hong Son, Deputy Headmaster of the school, Tonlé Sap, or “Bien Ho” in Vietnamese, is the biggest fresh water lake in the Southeast Asia region and the first biosphere reserve in Cambodia recognized by the UNESCO in 1997. Most people living in Tonlé Sap are Vietnamese people, who pursue their traditional livelihood of fishing. Under the regulation of the Cambodian Government, they could only fish from October this year to June of the following year annually because the remaining time is the breeding season of fishes. In spite of struggling life, the local Vietnamese community here always wants their children to learn the Vietnamese language to maintain their roots. Understanding the Vietnamese residents’ desire, Teacher Tran Van Tu from Tay Ninh province decided to open a Vietnamese school in the area in 1997. In a sad voice, Son told that Tu has… [Read full story]
Special school to build on success (01-11-2008) HCM CITY — The Binh Minh Special School plans to build on its success with special needs children by opening a vocational centre for them by December. The school in HCM City's Tan Phu District is known as one of top schools for special education in the city. It has 12 classrooms, seven functional rooms with special facilities, a swimming pool and a playground where 138 disabled and other children with other special needs aged 6 to 18 are trained in various life skills. Le Thi Dung, principal of the school, says that…... [read more]
(VOVworld) - For disabled children, special education and care is an essential need. A special school may not be spacious, but it will become their second homes and families, helping unfortunate children to gain knowledge and skills as well as self-confidence in order to integrate better into the community. Today VOV's My Dung will take you on a tour of three special schools in Ho Chi Minh City. We visited the Future School at the beginning of April. It is located in a small alley off Nam Ky Khoi Nghia Street, District 3. The semi-boarding school now has 40 handicapped…... [read more]
Consular Club donates equipment to special school By Tuong Vi in HCMC The Consular Club in HCMC on Thursday granted IT and audiovisual equipment to Nguyen Thien Thuat Primary School in HCMC’s District 3, a special school for mentally handicapped children. “In the past we had to teach students individually, but with the new equipment we can teach the whole class,” Tran Thi Kim Loan, senior mistress of grade one of the school told the Daily. The teachers will use the equipment that included a computer, projector, screen and laptop to teach with a new CD Rom that has been…... [read more]
Vietnam had targeted 60 percent disabled children to have access to education by 2015, in a project approved by the Prime Minister in 2012, but lack of adequate facilities has put the project in jeopardy. Speaking at a meeting to review academic year 2012-2013 for students with disabilities, Nguyen Thi Van Anh, Deputy Head of the Standing Board for Education of People with Disabilities of HCMC, said the City has 28 special schools for more than 2,700 students. Of which, many facilities in Districts 5, Cu Chi and Can Gio are in disrepair while others are houses converted into schools…... [read more]
VietNamNet Bridge - Ho Chi Minh City has 15 special schools for the hearing-impaired, where currently around 2,000 students are already enrolled. This figure is relatively low considering the ratio is 1:1,000 hearing-impaired people in the country. Moreover, persons with physical disabilities have to stop studying at primary and junior school level because there is no facility for higher education. The year 2000 can be considered as a milestone for the hearing-impaired as the Nippon Foundation launched a disability support project. The program in Vietnam provides opportunities for secondary and tertiary education for deaf and hearing-impaired students through the medium…... [read more]
