Charity bus brings 2,200 people far from home home to celebrate Tet

From early morning, thousands of students and workers have been lugging suitcases and backpacks to gather at the Youth Cultural House to board buses to return home for Tet (Photo: Xuan Truong).

From early morning on January 31, the Youth Cultural House (No. 4 Pham Ngoc Thach, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City) was packed with students and disadvantaged workers coming to participate in the spring bus trip with the theme "Happy Tet, Happy Spring".

Mr. Le Nguyen Nam, Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Student Support Center, shared: "The bus and train tickets to go home for Tet that the program gives to students are not only a means of transportation, but also a special Tet gift with a message of love.

Through the program, we aim to remind young people about the value of health and spread the traditional value of the wish for family reunion during Tet.

"Tet Sum Vay, Xuan Tron" is an activity in a series of activities to care for and support disadvantaged students organized by the City Student Support Center and other coordinating units. This year's program brought 2,200 students and disadvantaged workers from the Central and Central Highlands provinces back to their hometowns to celebrate Tet.

The organizers presented symbolic bus tickets to students in difficult circumstances (Photo: Xuan Truong).

In the overall program, the Organizing Committee has deployed trains and buses to take students studying back to their hometowns to celebrate Tet early on January 28, 2024 (ie December 18), and today the remaining buses will roll out to take students and disadvantaged workers back to their hometowns to celebrate Tet.

"Spring Bus Trip" is a program initiated and implemented annually by the City Student Support Center since 2002. Up to now, 61,125 disadvantaged students have been supported to return home for Tet.

The program has become a good solution, bringing many humane values and spreading to many localities, agencies, units and schools. From this program, many models to support students, university students and workers in difficult circumstances to return home for Tet have been born.

chuyen-xe-mua-xuan_Xuan-Truong — The spring bus trip helped the disadvantaged fulfill their dream of returning home to reunite for the 2024 Lunar New Year (Photo: Xuan Truong).

During the Lunar New Year, the City Student Support Center also organized programs such as: Introducing 4,000 Tet jobs, the Spring program from millions of golden hearts giving 2,000 Tet gifts to students and the Spring Train giving 150 Tet train tickets to students.