Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc addresses the 22nd anniversary of Vu A Dinh scholarship fund, March 15, 2021. (Photo: vov.vn)

The scholarship benefits not only poor students from ethnic minority groups, but also Vietnamese students in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Cuba.

In 2014, the ‘For beloved Hoang Sa – Truong Sa’ club was established under the fund to support soldiers, families of policy beneficiaries, and children of fishermen and fisheries surveillance.

“The Fund has contributed to promoting education as well as national defense. Vietnam’s target of becoming a high-income country by 2045 cannot be reached if the children in the mountainous and disadvantaged areas cannot have access to education,” said Prime Minister Phuc.

The Vu A Dinh scholarship fund is named after a H’Mong ethnic minority boy who laid down his life during the resistance war against the French colonialists.