(VOVworld) – Activities are held every July to show gratitude to martyrs, war invalids, and revolutionary contributors. The Vietnamese government has promulgated policies, including a preferential education policy for war invalids and their relatives to repay their sacrifice.
Nguyen Thi Cam’s family in Tan Tien hamlet, Ha Giang city, are revolutionary contributors. Cam’s husband was wounded during the war and lost 26% of his working capacity. Cam has shouldered alone the duties of feeding their three children.
At a difficult time, her family has received the support of the government’s preferential education policy for revolutionary contributors, under which Cam’s children were exempted from school fees for the 2006-2007 academic year. All her children have completed high school. Her youngest child attended a vocational college, as her husband wished before he died.
Cam said: “The government helped me cover all my children’s school fees. Now my eldest son is working in Quang Ninh as a miner. The second son is a driver and the third is working for a technology company.”
Aware of the family’s struggles since he was a schoolboy, Nguyen Van Dung has aspired to escape poverty through study. In 2009 Dung passed the entrance exam for Hanoi Technology College. After graduation, Dung was hired by the An Thong Company in the Binh Vang Industrial Park in Ha Giang and now earns a monthly salary of about 220 USD. Dung is one of thousands of youths who have benefited from the policy supporting education for beneficiary households.
In Ha Giang, education allowances is paid together with allowances for revolutionary contributors. Nguyen Van Que, a wounded soldier who lives in Minh Khai ward, said he often receives his monthly allowance and an education allowance for his daughter, who is studying at Thai Binh University of Medicine. In the past 5 years, an allowance of 2,700 USD has helped Que pay for his daughter’s schooling.
“Each month I receive about 59 USD. That money is very important to us. Otherwise, we would have to borrow for her education. We’re grateful for the state support,” said Que.
In Ha Giang, there are 110 students who are children of revolutionary contributors. They are studying at universities and colleges and receiving a preferential education allowance.
Provincial authorities have implemented a project to generate local jobs for children of war invalids, martyrs, and revolutionary contributors.
Pham Ngoc Dung, Deputy Director of the provincial Department of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs, said: “The policies have relatives of helped revolutionary contributors study and improve their professional job qualifications. The provincial administration has also given beneficiaries of the preferential education policy preference in hiring at state agencies.”
Vietnam now has approximately 200,000 beneficiaries of preferential education policy which has helped facilitated the children of revolutionary contributors attend a university or college. This has helped them stabilize their life and the lives of their family.