Giving wings to dreams for the young generation

NDO - Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund not only helps ethnic minority students, children of fishermen and officers and soldiers in the sea and islands, but also supports the development of a young, knowledgeable and capable generation of human resources for disadvantaged areas. After 25 years of operation, the Fund has actively contributed to the cause of education, affirmed its profound human values ​​and continued to develop practical projects to create opportunities for students to rise up in life.

The Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund was established by the Central Secretariat of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union on March 5, 1999 at the initiative of the Thieu Nien Tien Phong Newspaper. The Fund is named after the national youth hero Vu A Dinh and is chaired by Ms. Truong My Hoa - former Vice President of the country.

The Fund operates with the aim of caring for and creating conditions to support ethnic minority students in remote areas and children of fishermen in coastal areas, children of military forces on duty to protect the sea and islands of the Fatherland, supporting them to complete their studies, practice skills, contributing to training young human resources with knowledge and capacity for mountainous areas, border areas and sea and island areas of the Fatherland. The Fund's goal has been assessed by Party and State leaders as not only aiming at sustainable values ​​but also having profound humanistic values.

Over the past 25 years, the Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund has been persistently and persistently operating, maintaining calls for donors, mobilizing social resources to create conditions for ethnic minority and island students to complete their studies, while working with the State to care for and train future generations.

From the initial simple activity of awarding annual scholarships, Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund has mobilized more units and individuals who are enthusiastic about education to practically support students, contributing to training young human resources for the locality, through 5 projects "Nurturing the future", "Wings of dreams", "Opening the way to the future", "Supporting students", "Lighting up the future".

Scholarship award ceremony for ethnic minority students in Cao Bang province. (Source: Humanactprize.org)

In addition, Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund also established the "For Beloved Hoang Sa - Truong Sa" Club with the aim of caring for and supporting children of fishermen in coastal areas and children of law enforcement forces on islands. The project has carried out activities such as granting regular scholarships and in-depth training scholarships, building charity houses, building schools, and organizing programs to honor fishermen and soldiers who are on duty to protect the sacred skies and seas of the Fatherland.

The activities of the Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund have effectively supported ethnic minority and island students, helping their families reduce the economic burden so that they can take care of their studies, help them develop themselves, change their lives and be able to help their families in the future; on the other hand, contributing to training human resources for remote areas, gradually eliminating the development gap between regions.

The Executive Board of Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund shared that, in the process of implementing activities, the project implementation team encountered many difficulties in organizing resources to take care of students. However, the Fund always seeks to overcome them to ensure that the above projects can be implemented through strengthening communication, mobilization, and exploitation of resources for society to share and sympathize with the humanitarian goals of the projects. On the other hand, the Fund also closely follows the results of project implementation through the learning outcomes and success of students. The maturity of project beneficiaries is the driving force for units and donors to continue to support and promote the Fund's projects.

Scholarship award ceremony for the 2023-2024 academic year for ethnic minority students and students affected by the Covid-19 pandemic in Ho Chi Minh City. (Source: Humanactprize.org)

According to statistics of the Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund, more than 5,000 domestic and foreign sponsors, 22 private schools in Ho Chi Minh City, Can Tho, Binh Duong... have worked hard with the Fund "up the mountains and down to the sea" to give love, spread the spirit of national solidarity, love for the sea and islands through practical activities and contributions with a total value of more than 571 billion VND. And also from the "common home" of the Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund, engineers, doctors, teachers, diplomats... have grown up and spread to villages, reaching far out to the ocean.

With clear and correct goals and criteria, Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund has always created prestige, consensus and trust from its partners and has expanded its operating models. Annual scholarships with only a few hundred students receiving benefits have increased to 8,000. The model of in-depth investment projects has been formed with nearly 1,700 students from ethnic minorities and islands receiving benefits; dozens of schools, school sites and bridges, hundreds of policy houses and team houses have been built...

The Fund's Executive Board said that in the future, with the country's development and the trend of international integration, the issue of training a young generation with knowledge and strong political will according to the standards of global citizens will be increasingly focused on. The Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund affirmed that it will make efforts with the education sector to equip students who are beneficiaries of the Fund with specialized knowledge and appropriate life skills, helping them have the right attitude and professional working style to contribute to building the country in the "Era of national development".

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