Scholarship Sponsorship No. 01: Mai Đại Thành

Eligible to continue receiving scholarship sponsorship from the Y Tam Scholarship Fund, September 2015

Full name: Mai Đại Thành

Year of birth: 2005
Father: Mai Văn Nam, Kinh ethnicity
Mother: Trương Thị Tươi, Khmer ethnicity

4th-grade student (moving up to 5th grade this year) at Tân Lợi Primary School – Thạch Màn – Đồng Phú – Bình Phước; he has already been sponsored by the scholarship fund for one year.

Academic record: rated excellent for 4 years in a row

Scholarship: Tuition + other costs: 900,000 VND + 10 notebooks + 1 ruler + 2 fountain pens + 2 boxes of ink

Family circumstances: His father is ill and his mother works as a hired laborer. The family has no land and lives in a makeshift house on a state-owned cashew plantation.

VISITING HIM AGAIN:

A year has passed. In early August 2015, we went back to visit Mai Đại Thành, the young boy from Thạch Màn commune, Đồng Phú district, Bình Phước province.

His house sits tucked away in a lush green cashew orchard. Sadly, a year on, it looks no different: still tattered, old and desolate…. When we arrived he was not home; he had gone with his mother and his two younger siblings to the fields to pick cashews. Only his father was at home, because his health has declined so much that he can no longer work. While waiting for him to come back, we asked how the family had been over the past year.
Very sad news had come to the family: his eldest brother fell ill and passed away a few months ago. Now only three children remain, and Thành is the oldest.

When he came home and saw me, he was overjoyed. I sat beside him and asked about his studies and the memories of the past year. He now looks much bigger, sturdy and strong. He proudly showed me his certificate of merit from the last school year and the achievements he had earned. He still goes to school diligently, even though the school is 8 km away, and he has not missed a single day. His dream is still to go to school and keep studying, and he promised me he would never give up on this dream.

Not only that, he is very hardworking and well-behaved at home and helps his mother a great deal. He is his parents' pride and their hope.

As for us, we are very glad, and we believe that supporting him on his way to school and building his dreams together with him is a true joy. And we know that we have placed, and continue to place, our trust in the right person.
Investing in education is a sustainable, long-term investment that never loses, because it is the charitable way of giving a “fishing rod” instead of a “fish”.

Y Tam sincerely hopes to receive the support of our donors in Vietnam and abroad.

All contributions to the Y Tam Scholarship Fund can be sent to:

Y Tam Charity

Operating office address: No. X1, CMT8 Apartment Complex, Thép Mới Street (near the Hoàng Hoa Thám – Trường Chinh intersection), Ward 12, Tân Bình District, Ho Chi Minh City.

Phone: 098 567 4772 – 0934 197 772

Bank accounts:

1/ DongA Bank: Account number: 0101607577 – Account name: Đào Thị Minh Lệ, Branch: 343 Lê Văn Sỹ Street – District 3 – Ho Chi Minh City

2/ Vietcombank: Account number: 044 1000 664 969 – Account name: Đào Thị Minh Lệ, Card issued at: 188B Lê Văn Sỹ Street, Ward 10, Phú Nhuận District, Ho Chi Minh City, Tân Bình District Branch.

3/ Vietinbank: Account number: 711AA7741285 – Account name: Đào Thị Minh Lệ, Issuing branch address: 207 Lê Văn Sỹ Street – District 3 – Ho Chi Minh City

Note: When transferring, please clearly state: Donor's name + Support for the Bù Gia Mập program

Sincerely
Y Tam Charity