Education

Save the Children in co-ordination with the Education and Training Department of Hai Phong City has launched a financial education project for children from 10 secondary schools in Hai Phong last week.

 The project is a part of the organization’s financial education programme titled “Smart Start for Students” since 2009 which aims to provide high school students with personal financial management and basically financial service management skills. The programme started in two schools in HCM City in 2009 and is currently implemented in 182 high schools across the city.

By To To Tam, Education Programme Officer

 Boarding schools can be useful for children who live far away from any schools, helping them to avoid walking long distances every day. However, for children as young as six or seven, it seemed cruel for them to be away from home for most of the week.

Evaluating teachers through children’s learning activities and their responses to lesson questions is a Save the Children’s initiative to improve the quality of education and to prevent the negative impact of teacher’s evaluation process in Vietnam.

Ho A Dua is the third child of a H’mong family in Lang Manh village on the top of a mountain in Van Chan district of Yen Bai province.

Like the other villagers, Ho A Dua’s parents don’t speak the popular language -Vietnamese - and they live separately from the rest of the world.  From the village to the nearest town, it takes them a day walking through a wood route then on a long zigzagging bumpy and slippery track to trade their collected /or farming items for basic goods. In most of their life time, they live on sufficient supply. Education is therefore neglected.

“It was an intervention that would bring some change in my life,” said Ms. Le Thi Thanh Hang, a primary teacher from Krong Klang primary school in Quang Tri province. She left the comforts of the city and travelled to the remote mountainous areas of Vietnam with the aim of teaching children from poor and vulnerable families of ethnic minority group.