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Pupils and teachers struggle to cope with dilapidated classrooms
  • | dtinews.vn | December 09, 2016 03:07 PM

Primary pupils in remote areas in Thai Nguyen Province are in need of financial support to renovate their old classrooms to benefit from a better educational environment.

After graduation, Ma Thi Thuy Linh volunteered to return to her poor hometown to teach children at the Khe Cai branch of Vu Chan Primary School. The facility only has two teachers and nine pupils.

The wooden walls of the classrooms are falling apart and can't protect pupils from the winds. The facility consists of four classrooms, covering 60 square metres.

 

Dilapidated classrooms

"We have three first grade pupils, third, fourth and fifth grade have two pupils each. Third and first graders will study with each other while fourth and fifth graders will study together," Hua Thi Hang, a teacher, said.

Each classroom has a blackboard, a teacher desk and a long desk for five pupils. Linh, the youngest teacher said she wasn't sad because of the low number of pupils because she loved them.


 

Each classroom has a long desk for five pupils

"Because the classes are far from home, they have to wake up at 5.30, walking through streams and hills without breakfast. But they really want to learn so I want to be a good teacher, to help them have a better future," she said.

Khe Dia classrooms, another branch of the Vu Chan Primary School, looks even worse with 18 pupils. "It was built in 1997 and has deteriorated. We don't have electricity or clean water. We have nothing but difficulties," said teacher Nong Van Do.

The lunches for pupils are mostly wild vegetables and tofu. The pupils contribute VND10,000 a day for the meal. Parents often come and cook lunch but the pupils can also take care of themselves.

 

 

Khe Dia classrooms have no electricity or clean water

They were given blankets by a charity group which help improve the nap times during winter.

Dinh Thi Kieu, head of Vu Chan Primary School said they had six education facilities in various remote areas to encourage pupils to go to school. They have a total of 218 pupils.

"We hope these outlying branches of the school can be upgraded so that pupils don't have to travel tens of kilometres to the main facility to study," she said. "Without electricity, pupils at sub-facilities can't study computer or foreign languages properly."

If you can help them, please donate to the programme to help renovate Khe Cai and Khe Dia branches of Vu Chan Primary School in Vo Nhai District, Thai Nguyen Province, Code 2373.

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