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Vice President joins ethnic minority students at mid-autumn festival

Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan joined students of an ethnic minority boarding school in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai at a mid-autumn festival on September 8 night.
Vice President joins ethnic minority students at mid-autumn festival ảnh 1Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan joins ethnic minority students in Yen Bai province at mid-autumn festival. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi VNA) – Vice President Vo Thi AnhXuan joined students of an ethnic minority boarding school in the northernmountainous province of Yen Bai at a mid-autumn festival on September 8 night.

Xuan, who is also Chairwoman of the National Fundfor Vietnamese Children (NFVC) Sponsorship Council, presented gifts worth 400million VND (16,983 USD) to disadvantaged children in the province, and 20scholarships to students of the Van Yen district ethnic minority boardingschool.

The fund also presented100 scholarships and 30 bikes to the students. Gifts from the Association forthe Support of Vietnamese Handicapped and Orphans were also handed to 50 localstudents.

The school accommodates 300 students, all ethnic minorities,from 11 remote and extremely underprivileged communes of Van Yen district, andHong Ca and Luong Thinh communes of Tran Yen district.

On the occasion of the new school year 2022-2023,agencies in VanYen earmarked nearly 300 million VND to support over 700students.

Meanwhile, over 2,600 local children have receivedgifts worth nearly 1 billion VND from different sources to celebrate the festival./.
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