Scholarships granted to fishermen's children

As many as 120 scholarships, worth VND3 million each, were presented to children of coast guard and fisheries surveillance officers and fishermen in central Da Nang city and Quang Nam province on August 23.

The beneficiaries are those who made outstanding efforts to achieve good academic results, many of them come from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The scholarships were part of a program titled “Joining efforts to protect sovereignty over waters in the East Sea”.

The programme is expected to grant scholarships worth nearly VND800 million (USD38,000) in total to 265 students in the central region this year.

Launched by the Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper in May 2014, the program has received nearly VND42 billion (USD2 million) from readers at home and abroad.

(Source: CPV)