Save the Children in coordination with the Ministry of Education and Training held a conference to review the project in Hanoi on May 30.
With a total investment of over US$1.8 million, the project funded by Japanese Social Development Fund since 2009, aims to help ethnic minority children between 5 and 14 years old in three districts of Muong Cha, Van Chan and Huong Hoa in Dien Bien, Yen Bai and Quang Tri provinces respectively to complete a full course of primary schooling and continue their secondary education.
The project has also helped upgrade facilities at schools in the three district to improve the teaching quality as well as enhance their training capacity.
The project has provided teachers with teaching methods that make ethnic minority children more confident in learning and overcomelanguage barriers to learn better, said Bui Kim Dong, a educational specialist from Van Chan district Education and Training Office, Yen Bai Province.
