Happy to steal books to school
Stealing books to school is a happiness for poor children in district 8, Ho Chi Minh City.
Stealing books to school is a happiness for poor children in district 8, Ho Chi Minh City. The majority of the children here belong to poor working households in difficult circumstances, they come from the Western provinces to live and start a business. The children often follow their parents to hire and pick up fish vegetables at Binh Dien market. Others go to sell lottery tickets, pick up bottles, collect garbage and scrap. As social workers, when we learned of their circumstances, we visited each family to mobilize them to the center for love classes, Phat Huy classes, sewing lessons, embroidery lessons …
On the occasion of the new school year, to help some distant children with school transportation, on August 8, 2011, Lokusai Fukui group donated bicycles to 15 children at Phat Huy Binh An Center. And you have voiced your feelings with this very practical gift.
Bui Van Xuan, 15, a third grader. My parents both went to work far away, I stayed at home with my aunt. Every day I go fishing in the Black Water neighborhood. If you walk, it will take almost an hour to get to class. She confides: “I’ve been enjoying a bike for a long time. There’s a car and it only takes me more than 15 minutes and it’s very convenient. I promise to try to study better and be better.”
Phan Thi Ngoc Tuyet, 12 years old, in second grade. My mother left when I was a kid. I’m living with my dad right now. Dad goes to sell fruit every day. I just love having a bike to go to school, but I don’t know when I’m going to have enough money to buy it. I am studying embroidery at the Center with the desire to study very well, have a career later to raise dad.
Nguyen Thi Kieu, 15, is in second grade. My family is from Soc Trang, I’ve been in the city for 4 years. Kieu has a 12-year-old sister and a 9-year-old brother, all three sisters studied at Phat Huy Binh An Center. With the new bike, Kieu is very happy, every morning to drive both children to school.
Nguyen Thi Kim Hanh, a 13-year-old in grade One. Hanh’s parents are both Westerners who come to the city to get jobs such as selling chickens, selling snails, earning tens of thousands of capital losses. One day, Hanh entered the market to collect the pork fat, pork skin, chicken heart … People left to get meals. Hanh has two younger siblings, a 10-year-old girl and a 9-year-old brother. All three sisters studied at Phat Huy Binh An Center. From the day of the bicycle, Hanh carried both brothers, having a meal three times to go to school. Hanh confides: “I love to learn to sew, I sew with sleeves and pillows for dolls. Your mother told her what she was for, don’t ask for much. Having a bicycle, I want to go to sewing school later to have a job to help my parents”.
Living in life, everyone cherishes for themselves a dream of a happy life full of clothes, being loved, going to school to have fun … For disadvantaged children, the dream is simple and practical to get a bike to go to school. And they had the joy, more hope to start from the bike to weave other dreams, higher and more meaningful.
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