To mark the start of the 2023-2024 school year, many students from the Nam Tra My Senior High School located in Nam Tra My, Quang Nam Province was excited to receive gifts, including pens, notebooks, textbooks, mats, and pillows under the "Love Day" program launched by the Youth Union organization of the Hoang Hoa Tham Senior High School located in Son Tra District, Da Nang.

Teaching staff and students of the Hoang Hoa Tham Senior High School preparing for their journey to bring love to the students in mountainous areas of Quang Nam Province. Photo: THIEN LAM

It is known that 80 sets of textbooks for the 10^th and 12^th graders along with 2,100 notebooks, 50 backpacks, 500 sets of learning tools, 10 Casio’s Calculator No.Fx -570 Es Plus, 200 blankets and 200 mats and other items which are worth more VND 50 million in total have been donated to high school students in mountainous areas.  Teacher Vo Van Trung, the Deputy Secretary of the Nam Tra My Senior High School’s Youth Union organization said that a total of 400 students from remote villages have registered for boarding at the school’s boarding facilities in the 2023-2024 academic year but the school only has 20 boarding rooms.

“The majority of the school’s students are from ethnic minority groups whose houses are far from the school. In its efforts to help ethnic minority students, the school annually calls on donors to give these students school uniforms, textbooks, notebooks and other essential items in order to support them to enter their new school year. However, donation resources are still limited and are only enough to help those living under extreme poverty. Therefore, gifts from the Da Nang-based Hoang Hoa Tham Senior High School are very precious to these ethnic minority students as these things will motivate them to overcome difficult to study hard and achieve their dreams with higher education", Mr. Trung said.

Do Bao Tram, an eleventh grader of the Hoang Hoa Tham High School said that she quickly signed up to participate in the "Love Day" program after hearing this news. During this program, Bao Tram called on her friends and relatives to donate such essential school supplies as  textbooks for the 10^th and 12^th graders, reference books, notebooks and school uniforms.

“I'm so happy when participating in this charity program which provides the opportunity for me to give material and spiritual support to disadvantaged students in remote mountainous areas", Bao Tram shared.

Ngo Nhu Y, the Deputy Secretary of the Youth Union organization of the Hoang Hoa Tham Senior High School, highlighted the spiritual significance of the "Love Day" program in its participants. The school used social media appeals in its school supply donation program, and it has called for donations of textbooks, notebooks, and learning tools from 200 students across Son Tra District. Besides, it also called on donators from its affiliated units to donate such essential items as blankets and mats. The school launched its two- phase school supply donation program which started in June and ended in early August.

Ngo Nhu Y highlighted the significance of this charity program in spreading love and kindness to students in mountainous areas in an effort to bring a better and happier life to them.

The school’s Youth Union organization Secretary Tham Le Manh Tan said that initiated in 2018 by the school, the "Love Day" Program aims to spread love to those in need, as well as enhance the effectiveness of comprehensive education in the school’s students, teach them about the importance of giving back and ways in which they can do so in order to help them develop valuable life skills and have many other lifelong benefits.

Reporting by THIEN LAM – Translating by H.L