17/07/2011

The US's Asia Foundation and the Vietnam Study Encouragement Association on July 17 handed over scholarships to 53 poor high-school students in the Red river delta province of Nam Dinh.

The Asia Foundation now has 17 representative offices in Asian cities, including Hanoi , which focuses on promoting peace, development and renewal in disadvantaged areas.

After almost seven years of operation, the foundation has doled out over 900 million VND worth of scholarships to local students in Nam Dinh province. It has also provided schoolbags, clothes, English-Vietnamese dictionaries, wheelchairs, birthday gifts and presents during Tet festivals for the needy students./.