Scholarships given to poor university students in southeastern region
Scholarships given to 150 poor university students in southeastern region
Tuoi Tre (Youth) Newspaper, the Ho Chi Minh City Youth Union and HCM Television held a ceremony on October 12 to grant scholarships to 15 new university students with difficult circumstances in seven southeastern provinces and cities.
Leaders of Ho Chi Minh City present the scholarship to a new university students (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Tuoi Tre (Youth) Newspaper, the Ho Chi Minh City YouthUnion and HCM Television held a ceremony on October 12 to grant scholarships to15 new university students with difficult circumstances in seven southeastern provincesand cities.
The scholarship is only the firstsupport for new university students to pursue their study as well as an acknowledgementof their efforts in learning, said Le The Chu, Editor-in-Chief of Tuoi TreNewspaper.
He wished the new students will try their best to study well to make theirfuture brighter.
In 2019, the newspaper is coordinating with 63 provinces and cities to presentscholarships worth 14 billion VND (603,460 USD) in total to over 1,200 newstudents with difficulties across the nation.
Over the past 17 years, with the goal of not letting any new student give upstudy dream due to difficult circumstances, the programme has granted more than19,300 scholarships to new students, with a total value of 134 billion VND(5.77 million USD)./.
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Leaders of Ho Chi Minh City present the scholarship to a new university students (Photo: VNA) 
