HCM City association presents scholarships to disadvantaged students
The Ho Chi Minh City Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients (SAPP) and benefactors on July 25 presented 1,382 scholarships worth over 1.5 billion VND (65,000 USD) to disadvantaged and disabled students with excellent academic performance in the country.
Hanoi (VNA) – The Ho Chi Minh City Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients (SAPP)and benefactors on July 25 presented 1,382 scholarships worth over 1.5 billionVND (65,000 USD) to disadvantaged and disabled students with excellent academicperformance in the country.
Dr Tran Thanh Long, SAPP President, said this year’s scholarships are allocatedfor 13 localities nationwide, including Ho Chi Minh City, Gia Lai, Kon Tum, DakLak, Dak Nong, Tra Vinh, Long An, Ben Tre, Ninh Thuan, Khanh Hoa, ThuaThien-Hue, Ca Mau and Nghe An.
The progamme benefits poor, orphan, disabled and ethnic students with goodacademic performance, helping them have more chances to pursue their study, hesaid.
After 18 years, the programme granted more than 22,380scholarships worth over 22 billion VND (956,500 USD) in total.
As of October 2017, the associationhad raised over 1 trillion VND (46.46 million USD) from various social sourcesto help the poor.
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SAPP also provided 18,300 hearing aids for deaf children,20,600 scholarships for poor students, 14,000 meal portions for hospitals, andnearly 146,000 health insurance cards to poor households.
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