PROJECT IN VIETNAM

PROJEKTIMME VIETNAMISSA

Where is the project located?

In Ly Nhan district, Nam Ha province, northern Vietnam, in the Red River Delta.

Who is the team?

-          Mr. Tapani Petila (Vesilahti school) and colleagues (Finland representatives)

-          Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Lam (Hanoi University) and colleagues (Vietnam representatives)

What is the project’s aim?

-          Helping a poor village school in Ly Nhan district in improving its facilities, teaching/learning quality and pupils/teachers’ lives

-          Building up an educational assistant program in isolated and poor schools in Vietnam

What have been done?

-          VisitingHanoi University in Vietnam to build up the educational co-operation (January 2011)

-          Meeting with Hanoi University leaders

-          Delivering talks to Hanoi University students on tourism

-          Visiting Ly Nhan village school to study the case (February 2011)

-          Sponsoring Ly Nhan village school with playing facilities

About the Ly Nhan village school?

A small village boarding school for children from 1-5 years old. The school has some 50 children and 5 staff all coming from the local village with limited experience in training children. The fund to run the school is mainly from parents who are living on farming. Many families refuse to take their children to school due to the contribution to the school (a few dollars/a pupil/a month). The school has been in very poor condition for years with roof-leaking classrooms, cracked walls, no kitchen and proper toilets. Most of food for meals come from self-planted garden in school garden.