(VNF) - The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union on August 14^th held a walking event to raise scholarship funds for disadvantaged students in the upcoming academic year. This was part of the 10^th volunteers’ festival held by the Students’ Association and the Vietnam Youth Union of the city.

More than 5,000 tertiary students and youth union members of Ho Chi Minh City participated in the walk.

The organizing board of the programme presented 40 scholarships to poor students and learning tools to students in rural districts of the city: 20 scholarships worth VND 1 million (about USD44.90) each to needy primary and secondary school students and 20 scholarship worth VND5 million (about USD 224.54) each to needy tertiary students and school supplies to students.

Representative of the city’s Youth Union presented scholarships to needy students at the event (Source: qdnd.vn)

The scholarships were funded by benefactors and businesses.

The programme’s objective was to call on donors to send money to the scholarship fund of the Tuoi tre (Youth) newspaper and another of the municipal support center that are intended to help disadvantaged students continue their learning.

On the same day, more than 147,000 students, teachers, soldiers and officers from Ho Chi Minh City joined a youth volunteering campaign during this summer, heard a ceremony to review the event. Especially, this year, 50 Malaysian volunteers took park in the campaign.

They worked on various programmes including the, “Ky nghi hong” (Red Vacation), “Mua he xanh” (Green Summer), “Hoa phuong do” (Red Flamboyant) and “Hanh quan xanh” (Green Marching) programmes.

50 Malaysian volunteers took park in this year’s campaign (Source: tienphong.vn)

The activities were carried out across 24 districts in Ho Chi Minh City and some Southern localities.

Through the campaign, participants helped upgrade 45km of rural roads, build and repair 26 rural bridges and 217 houses, handed out gifts worth over 3 billion VND (136,000 USD) to more than 10,000 poor people and offered free medicine and health check-ups to more than 72,800 people.

They also helped build 40 bus stops, repaired electrical systems in 1,000 households and cleaned up around the Sai Gon River./.

Minh Phuong ( tienphong.vn )