Over the past 10 years, the programme has presented 14,185 annual scholarships worth more than 14 billion VND to needy students (Photo: tuoitre.vn)

Speaking at a press briefing in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday on the occasion of the 10-year “For Beloved Truong Sa Students” program, the 10th founding anniversary of the Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund and the 8th birthday of the and “For Beloved Hoang Sa-Truong Sa” Club, Hoa said that during the COVID-19 period, the organisations raised more than 256,000 USD to support children from pandemic-hit families.

The programme has built two primary schools in Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes – Truong Sa Lon and Sinh Ton Primary Schools, and a kindergarten in Nam Du island of Kien Giang province.