On 6 September 2025, during the schoolyear
opening ceremony at the Lê Hồng Phong (LHP) High School for the Gifted in Ho
Chi Minh City, the school leadership and the management committee of the Bùi
Trọng Chương Scholarship Fund (BTCSF) organized the annual BTC scholarship
award ceremony.
Despite challenges in scholarship fund raising, BTCSF decided to raise the value of each scholarship to 14
million VND and awarded a total of 266 million VND to 19 outstanding students
in adverse circumstances for the academic year of 2025-26. Six of these students
had received Bùi Trọng Chương scholarships in 2024-25. In the context of BTCSF’s
fund-raising difficulties, four previous scholarship recipients, including a
university student, made financial contributions for scholarships.
After the scholarship award ceremony on the large LHP school stage, the
BTCSF management committee and LHP High School leadership organized a meeting
in a smaller venue. In attendance were the Director of Vietnam Centrepoint, several
donors, and scholarship recipients. BTCSF committee presented certificates of
appreciation to donors, including the parents of donor and LHP alumna Lê Diệp
Kiều Trang, the head and deputy head of Chia Sẻ-Sharing philanthropy group (Mrs.
Nguyễn Thị Tranh and Mrs. Nguyễn Ngọc Phượng), teachers Lâm Hoàng Phúc and Đỗ
Lưu Vỹ Long, and Mr. Trần Trọng Đoàn, a university student and another BTC
scholarship alumnus. Representatives of donors and Mr. Trần Hữu Phúc Tiến also
offered advice to students.
(*) According to the
standards set by the Vietnamese Ministry of Education in 2018, a student is
rated “Excellent” for achieving the grade of 8/10 in 6 subjects, and
“Outstanding” for achieving 9/10 in 6 subjects. Schools no longer calculate
grade averages.
B. Family backgrounds of 19
scholarship recipients
(listed not in the same order as in part A)
· Family in serious financial
difficulties with father in terminal illness and high medical expenses; mother in menial labor job. Student unable to take extra courses due to the family’s
financial difficulties.
· Father having passed away due to
illness, mother working as a small trader in a small province to support two
children studying in HCMC with high expenses.
· Primary income from mother’s
itinerant trade and with poor health, family living in rented quarters.
· Single mother with low worker
income, supporting 2 children in school, family living in rented quarters.
· Father in menial labor job and
with chronic illness, family relying mainly from mother’s street vending to
support a family of 4 members, with 2 children in school.
· Father unemployed and with no
income, family of 3 relying on mother’s low worker income.
· Father having passed away,
housewife mother having no income, elder brother going to university mainly
with student loans
· Father unemployed, 2 other
family members in simple labor jobs to support a family of 4 members; family
living in rented quarters.
· Parents in menial labor jobs and
with low income, supporting a family of 7 members.
· Both parents in menial labor
jobs with low income, supporting a child in school.
· Both parents with low income,
supporting of family of 5 members.
· Primary income from mother with contractual job in a small province, family still having many debts,
student moving to HCMC to study and living in a rented room.
· Both parents with freelance jobs
with unstable income, supporting a family of 5 members.
· Retired father and housewife mother,
family income quite low, supporting a child in school.
· Both parents in freelance jobs
with modest income, father with chronic illness, supporting a family of 5
members.
· Both parents in freelance jobs
with low and unstable income, mother with health problems, supporting a family
of 4 members, family living in a relative’s house.
· Parents working as small traders
with modest income, still paying bank debts, supporting a family of 5
members,
· Father in menial labor job, mother
an office worker, both with low income, supporting a family of 6 members.
· Single mother, often travelling
as part of her job with modest income, supporting an elderly grandmother and
a student in school.
