The Da Nang Vocational Training Junior College has launched a campaign to make clothes for flood victims in worst-hit areas in central regional localities of Ha Tinh, Quang Tri and Quang Binh.

Each of hospital uniforms is cherished and careful with the ‘sewers’, sending their love and appreciation in every needle line and thread.

200 students from the Garments and Fashion Design Faculty of the Da Nang Vocational Training Junior College have joined the campaign to provide practical support for victims of devastating floods in central Viet Nam.

The students have used their skills to made clothes for disaster victims. All of them immersed themselves in a bustling ambiance making as many outfits as they can for flood victims. They have got behind their sewing machine and worked hard for consecutive hours daily without any complaints.  

The steady, throbbing sound of sewing machines is heard in the designated classrooms in the Da Nang Vocational Training Junior College amid the repetitive rhythmic processes of sewing, and of course, school uniforms and wind-resistant jackets come into shape bumper to bumper.

Each piece of clothes is cherished and careful with the sewers, sending their love and appreciation in every needle line and thread.

“I am glad that the campaign has been supported enthusiastically by the school’s leaders. We are racing against time to make more than 1,000 sets of clothes for the flood victims the sooner the better”, lecturer Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, the Dean of the Garments and Fashion Design Faculty said.

‘I am tired but happy because I know what I am doing is meaningful. I can make up to two sets of school uniforms in a day”, a volunteer ‘tailor’ said.

In addition, a group of lecturers and students from the Faculty of Electricity in this college has gone to affected areas in an effort to help local residents troubleshoot electrical problems caused by flooding. 

In particular, the college will grant scholarships and provide financial aids for its students whose hometowns are in worst-hit areas as a supportive move to help the get through these hard times and continue their academic missions, Mr Ho Viet Ha, the college’s Vice Rector announced.

After consecutive days of being heavily battered by the adverse weather conditions, flood-stricken central localities desperately need of all the help they can get, in-kind and in-cash, from fellow citizens countrywide.

Such a good deed done by the students is worth lauding for spreading humanitarian love, and especially, highlighting the country's time-honoured moral tradition of ‘la lanh dum la rach’ (The intact leaves protect tattered ones). 

By XUAN DONG- Translated by A.T