In the context of greater economic hardships in many households due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, benefactors and members of the Executive Board worked hard together to increase to 21 the number of Bui Trong Chuong (BTC) scholarships for the academic year 2020-21 (cf. 14 scholarships in the 2019-20 school year); each is worth 11 million VND (cf. 10 million in the 2019-20 school year). Of the 21 award-winning students, 15 received the BTC for the first time and the remaining 6 (who had received BTC scholarships in the past year) continued to be the BTC scholarship recipients.
In addition, Mr. Tran Huu Phuc Tien (a member of the Executive Board and CEO of Vietnam Centrepoint Education & Media group) offered each student a foreign language award worth 10 million VND at Vietnam Centrepoint. This additional award has increased the total value received by each BTC scholarship holder to 21 million VND.
The BTC scholarship ceremony was held in the morning of September 5, 2020 at the Le Hong Phong High School for the Gifted. In attendance were Ms. Truong Thi Le Ha (Vice Principal), many members of the Executive Board of the BTC Scholarship Fund (Mr./Ms. Vo Anh Dung, Tran Huu Phuc Tien, Le Nhut Tan, Nguyen Thi Tranh); and guests (Ms. Le Nguyen Minh Hien, Ms. Dang Thi Thien Chi -a former teacher at Petrus Ky-Le Hong Phong high school, and a representative of the parents of the scholarship recipients).
At the scholarship award ceremony, the Executive Board thanked Ms. Le Nguyen Minh Hien - a former student of Le Hong Phong High School in 2003-04 - for her contribution of 100 million VND to the BTC Scholarship Fund. Ms. Le Nguyen Minh Hien responded by sharing her own experiences with the scholarship winning students. The Executive Board also advised students to try their best to succeed in school and to support the next generation of students in the long run.
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| Hà Trọng Hoàng Nguyễn Phạm Minh Trí | Ms. Lê Nguyễn Minh Hiền Mr. Dũng |
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| Mr. Trần Hữu Phúc Tiến and students holding Vietnam Centrepoint Award certificates |
A. Academic achievements and aspirations
B. Family backgrounds of 21 students who received BTC scholarships
(the listing order in part B not following the order in part A
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Mother is a sidewalk vendor
with a very low income during the Covid-19 pandemic, supporting by herself two children in school.
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Father is a Uber motorbike driver who has been seriously ill; mother is a low-skilled worker in a field heavily affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. The household has two sons in
school.
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Father a low-skilled worker, mother a petty trader, supporting a family of 6 people; BTC scholarship recipient working part-time to earn
extra income to cover his educational expenses; family staying with relatives.
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Father having passed away; mother working as a petty trader to raise 3 children.
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Father chronically ill,
relying heavily on charity medicine; mother a seasonal worker with low
income.
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Parents are low-income manufacturing workers, supporting a family of 4.
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Father a low-skilled
laborer; mother a housewife; taking care of a family of 4 living near
the poverty line.
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Father old and unable to work; mother
a housewife; the family having no earned income and relying on the financial support of relatives.
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Father a Uber motorbike
driver; mother a low-income worker.
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Father a low-skilled laborer; mother
a housewife.
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A family of 5 depends on the
father's income (freelancer, income affected during the Covid-19 pandemic).
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Father a Uber motorbike
driver; mother a petty trader.
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Mother's health is poor, her
modest income is affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. She raises two children by herself.
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Both parents being low-skilled workers with low income, family living in a rented dwelling.
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Father works as a Uber motorbike
driver; mother is a low-skilled laborer; both parents have low income. The family lives in a rented dwelling.
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Father died from
illness; mother’s low income has been hit hard by the pandemic. She is the sole supporter of her son in school.
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Mother can’t work; father
is a free-lance worker with income declining significantly due to the epidemic. The family lives in
a rented dwelling.
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Father is a freelancer with
unstable income; mother is ill and not working.
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Father is a car
driver; mother is a laborer with low income; raising 2 children.
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Father works as a neighborhood
security guard; mother is a petty trader at a market
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Father is a
freelance worker with unstable income; mother
is a petty trader. The family has 3 children and lives in a rented dwelling.
