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Vietnamese students receive AEON Scholarships

The AEON 1% Club Foundation, a member of Japanese retail and financial services corporation AEON, granted 60 scholarships to Vietnamese university students at a ceremony held in Hanoi on December 12.
Vietnamese students receive AEON Scholarships ảnh 1Students from the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Photo VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) - The AEON 1% ClubFoundation, a member of Japanese retail and financial services corporationAEON, granted 60 scholarships to Vietnamese university students at a ceremonyheld in Hanoi on December 12.

Yohsei Honda, Secretary General of the AEON1% Club Foundation, said the AEON Scholarship is an allowance-based scholarshipfor university students in various Asian countries and self-financed Asianstudents studying in Japan.

The project, designed to “Support the Dreamsof Asian Students”, was started in 2006 in the hope that recipients will playan active role in the future, connecting their home countries with Japan intheir respective specialist fields. In addition to year-round financialsupport, the project offers opportunities for various study curriculums andvolunteer activities aimed at scholarship students studying in Japan, and providessupport for students aiming to develop into global talent.

In Vietnam, the "AEON Scholarship"has been awarded to a total of 626 university students, including twouniversities in Hanoi since 2012 and two in Ho Chi Minh City since 2011.

This year in Hanoi, students from theUniversity of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Foreign Trade Universitywere honoured to receive the scholarships. At the Scholarship CertificateGranting Ceremony, scholarship students gave speeches on their personal dreamsand goals.

Honda said the AEON 1% Club Foundation wasestablished in 1989 in Japan, has been operating based on 1 percent of pre-taxprofit donated by the major AEON Group companies, engaging in projects withthree main themes of “Sound Development of the Next Generation, Promotion ofFriendship with Foreign Countries, and Sustainable Development of RegionalCommunities.”

A similar scholarship awarding ceremony willtake place in HCM City on December 13.

Since its establishment, the "AEONscholarship" has supported 5,117 students in 35 universities and collegesacross Japan, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia and Myanmar. -VNA
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