The VND 430-million project, which is funded by Dantri readers and donors from Vietnam and abroad, will build a new classroom and upgrade four other classrooms, the schoolyards and WCs at Tan Thanh 2 Primary School in Thuong Xuan District's Thanh Lap Village. All the work is expected to be completed by August.

Speaking at the ground-breaking ceremony on June 6, Deputy-in-Chief of Dantri/Dtinews Newspaper, Nguyen Xuan Toan sent his sincere thanks to MOLISA and local authorities for their support for the construction of the project.

Deputy-in-Chief of Dantri/Dtinews Newspaper, Nguyen Xuan Toan, speaks at the ceremony

"Thanks to funding from kind donors and the support from local government and concerned agencies, we've been able to carry out many construction projects in difficult areas nationwide," Toan said. "Before this project, we'd also built some bridges and schools in Nghi Son Town, Lang Chanh and Ba Thuoc District in Thanh Hoa and provided financial support to many poor people in the area."

Attending the ceremony, Vice chairman of Thuong Xuan District People's Committee, Cam Ba Dung shared that Thanh Lop has over 200 Thai ethnic households and is the poorest village in Tan Thanh Commune.

"There are currently over 100 students in the primary school," the official said. "The school with four classrooms was built in 2007 thanks to funding from some charity groups. As the school has received more students in recent years, they need more classrooms, while the old ones have deteriorated."

The old classrooms have deteriorated.

The official sent his sincere thanks to Dantri Newspaper and kind donors for this valuable support so that children here can have better study conditions.

"This is a very meaningful project for our children," he said. "Thank you so much."