The context
Help me to provide 10 scholarships for students who have achieved outstanding academic results and faced economic hardships.
# Mai Thi Lan Anh - Grade 12 - 11 years on High Honor roll
Anh was borned in a family with three other siblings. It's a challenge for the parents to make ends meet, given that her father is over 50 years old and suffers tuberculosis. She and her siblings are at school ages and are not able to help the family economically.
Anh has been an outstanding student in her classes. She has been in honor roll for the 11 consecutive years, and she won the 3rd Prize in the Quang Tri's Provincial Olympiad in Chemistry.
Her dream is to continue to study to become a doctor so she can bring hope and love to those who suffers life threatening diseases.
# Tran Kim Bao - Grade 12 - 11 consecutive years on top honor roll
Bao has always been one of the brightest students in his classes. He excelled in Chemistry and Math and he was a member of Quang Tri's team that participated in the Vietnam's National Olympiad Competition in Chemistry.
Bao is raised in a family of his parents and two sisters. His parents work in the farm growing rice and pigs with irregular incomes of about $300 monthly, all depends on the weather and the ability to sell their produce net of the cost of buying fertilizer, pesticides, and cattle foods. Bao has to rent a place to live near the school, and with such a low family income, room and board becomes an extreme challenge.
# Mai Vu Tue Danh - Grade 11
Danh was in the highest honor roll last year. He also won the silver medal on the Physics Olympiad for the Northern Delta in Vietnam. His parents are civil servants and the household income is not enough to cover the living expenses. He dreams to be a scientist.
# Pham Dinh Do - Grade 12 - 11 years on High Honor roll
Do excels at Physics. He has participated in various Physics contests. He won the 3rd Prize in the Vietnam's National Olympiad in Physics (2019), 1st Prize in the Quang Tri Provincial Olympiad in Physics (2016), 3rd Prize in the Quang Tri Provincial Olympiad in Physics (2019), among others. Furthermore, he has been in honor roll for 11 consecutive years.
Do was born in one of the poorest communes in Quang Tri. His father works in a farm and his mothers works as manual labor in a brick making factory. With three children, his parents have to borrow money to cover the cost of living for the family, including for Do who has to move to the city to attend the school. Do is driven to study and be a successful person to get the family out of poverty.
He dreams to be a Doctorate of Science to help advance basic research in Vietnam.
# Khong Vu Minh Duc - Grade 11 - Honor rolls 10 consecutive years
Duc has been in honor rolls for 10 consecutive years. He won the 2nd Prize in Quang Tri's Olympiad in Physics in 2018, and 2nd Prize in the Northern Delta in 2019, both in Physics.
Duc was born in a family with two other siblings. His parents work as farmers and small traders. In recent years, the unpredictable weathers results in lower yields which cause a real challenge in supporting the family. However, his parents are willing to work hard so that Duc and his sibling continue studying to have better opportunities.
Duc dreams to be a medical doctor in sports to help limit the sportspersons' serious injuries.
# Bui Duy Anh Duc - Grade 12 - Honor rolls for 11 consecutive years
Duc won the 1st Prize in 2017 and 3rd Prize in 2019 in the Quang Tri's Olympiads in Physics. He also won the runner up prize in the Northern Delta in 2019 in Physics. He excels in other subjects as well, which allowed him to be on honor roll for 11 consecutive years. Loving computers, Duc dreams to be a cybersecurity engineer.
Apart from Duc and his older brother, his parents also take care of his grand mother. His father is the main income earner, however, since he fell from the electrical pole while working, he is suffering from the spine injury. He was able to earn less than US$200 per month, which barely cover the tuitions, for his children, not to say the living expenses. His mother works in the farm and raise pigs, but this year due to disease, the pigs got wiped out. This year become very challenge for the family economically.
# Nguyen Van Sy Thinh - Grade 11 - Honor rolls 10 consecutive years
Thinh in on honor rolls for 10 consecutive years.
His father operates a small herbal medicine shop with unstable income and his mother is a homemaker with respiratory condition. The unstable income creates economic challenges when there are expenses to pay for his and his brother's room and board (his brother is a 2nd year university student) and the medicine for his mother so his father has to ask for loans from the neighbors . Thinh used to think to drop out of school and find a labor job to help his father to reduce the financial burden. However, his father encouraged him to continue study for a better future.
Thinh has been studying really hard with hope to get the family out of poverty. He plan to use this money to buy books and school supplies for the term.
# Le Tien Quyet - Grade 11 - Honor rolls 10 consecutive years
Quyet ranked top in the school year 2019 for Physics in his school. He also won the 3rd Prize in the Quang Tri's Provincial Olympiad in Physics in 2018. He has been in honor rolls for the last 10 years.
Quyet was born in a fishery village where his parents have to work really hard to earn a living. He dreams to be a teacher to grow the next batch of successful students to help Vietnam to advance.
# Do Thien Thu - Grade 12 - Honor rolls for 11 consecutive years
Thu won the 3rd Prizes in the Quang Tri Provincial Olympiad in Physics in 2016 and 2019. She is also on top honor rolls for 11 consecutive years.
Thu and her younger sister were born in an agricultural work family. Although her parents work really hard, the income is barely enough to cover the cost of living and tuition of the children. Thanks to the financial support of the relatives, Thu and her sister can still go to school. Thu is in need of financial support to complete her studies and become a physicist to be able to contribute to the body of science.
# Do Thi Thien Nga - Grade 12 - Honor rolls for 11 consecutive years
Nga is a bright student and she is interested in study chemistry. She won the 3rd Prize in 2019 and 2nd Prize in 2017 in the annual Quang Tri Provincial Olympiad in Chemistry, the Runner Up Prize in the Northern Delta Olympiad in Chemistry. Further more, she has been on top honor rolls for 11 consecutive years.
Nga was born in a family with three other siblings. Her parents do whatever they can to raise their children, from agricultural work, to construction, to recycling collection and often take out loans to cover the living costs.
The income becomes a challenge when her parents are over 50 years old and start to get health issues. Thu dreams to be a medical doctor to contribute to a heathy community.
# About Nominator
Mr Tran Van Sau is a Physics teacher at Le Quy Don High School
Requester
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Receiving Organization
Name: Le Quy Don High School
Location: Đông Hà,Quảng Trị, Viet Nam
Le Quy Don High School is one of a few schools that helps highly capable students to achieve more. The school is located in Quang Tri, Vietnam. Quang Tri is among the poor cities in Vietnam, with GDP per capital of about $1,900 per annum.
Funding and donors
Funding status: Funded
Target funding value USD1,000.00
Funded value USD1,000.00
Funding by SYS generic campaigns