Summer camp for overseas young people kicks off in HCM City
Sixty overseas Vietnamese young people from 14 foreign countries and territories have joined local youths in an annual summer camp which kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on July 11.
Summer camp for overseas young people kicks off in HCM City (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Sixty overseas V🌺ietnamese young people from 14 foreign countries and territories have joined local youths in an annual summer camp which kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on July 11.
The event, the 16th of its kind, is co-organisedby the municipal Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs and the city’s Ho Chi MinhCommunist Youth Union. It will last until July 15. The programme features a city tour, voluntary youth programmesto visit and present gifts to impoverished students in Can Gio district and BinhThuan province; a trip to beautiful beaches in the southern coast city of PhanThiet in Binh Thuan province and exchanges with local youths there. In Binh Thuan, they are also scheduled to visit DucThanh school where Uncle Ho taught before he left the country to seek ways for national salvation, and learnabout culture and architecture works of Cham ethnic people at Poshanu tower. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Dinh Thi PhuongThao, Vice Chairwoman of the municipal Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs and head of the summer camp organising committee, said thecamp is an opportunity to connect Vietnamese young people fromdifferent parts of the world while fostering feelings of national pride thatoverseas youths have for their home country. This year, participantscame from the US, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary,Malaysia, Australia, Thailand, Cambodia, Singapore, Taiwan (China)./.
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Summer camp for overseas young people kicks off in HCM City (Photo: VNA) 
