HCM City (VNA) – The Singapore International Foundation (SIF) andHo Chi Minh City’s General Sciences Library jointly launched the second phaseof the Words of Wheel (WoW) project on March 29, aiming to benefit 7,000students in primary and secondary schools in the city.

The three-year project will provide Vietnamese and English books tostudents, along with online studying material, multimedia equipment and otherlibrary resources through four mobile libraries per week in seven schools inDistrict 2 and District 8.

About 120 Singaporean volunteers will come to Ho Chi Minh City toorganise English and IT courses in the city.

Bui Xuan Duc, Director of the Ho Chi Minh City’s General SciencesLibrary said that the WoW project is expected to inspire students and createreading habit among them.

Lian Wee Cheow, SIF President said that positive impacts on thecommunity were shown in the first phase of the project. In the second phase,the project is hoped to continue helping deal with common challenges ofsociety. The project also reflects the sound friendship between people ofSingapore and Vietnam over the past 45 years.

The WoW in Ho Chi Minh City is part of efforts to enhance friendship andboost positive and sustainable growth in Asia.

In the global scale, the project contributes to the UN sustainabledevelopment goals, particularly the goal number four on quality and goal number17 on global partnership and cooperation.

Since 2011, along with Ho Chi Minh City, the project has benefited43,000 children in many other localities, including Hanoi, Bandung andYogyakarta of Indonesia, and Jaffna of Sri Lanka.-VNA