The HCM City Student Assistance Centre and universities have been
gifting bus tickets and presents to poor students for Tet (Lunar New
Year) that will start in less than 10 days to come.
The centre
along with the city unit of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and Tuoi Tre
(Youth) newspaper gave bus tickets to 3,500 students who will return
home in 22 provinces, including some as far away as Thanh Hoa and Nghe
An in the central region.
The students were chosen as their
families were affected by the last floods in the region between Nghe An
and Phu Yen provinces. Ethnic minority students who have not been home
for Tet for many years were also chosen.
The tickets cost more than 1 billion VND (47,600 USD)
The
centre will also help students from the central region buy tickets at
discounts of 5-25 percent. The annual Tet exodus sees millions of people
travel home from their place of work and study, leaving buses, trains
and aircraft packed to the rafters.
Universities and student associations are also making plans to gift bus tickets to their poor members.
The HCM City Social Sciences and Humanities and HCM City University of Technology will each help 100 students.
Next
week the centre will give gifts worth 250,000 VND (11.8 USD) each to
1,000 students from other provinces who will remain in HCM City during
Tet instead of returning home. It will organise traditional games and
parallel sentence composition contests for their entertainment during
the holidays.
It has got seasonal jobs for more than 3,000 such
students. Also next week the HCM Communist Youth Union will give away
gifts to students staying in at 11 dormitories around the city.
Several
universities will organise entertainment activities and give gifts to
students staying in their dormitories during Tet. /.
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