The four-year project will tackle major problems leading to the groups’ low participation in education such as remoteness of schools, financial difficulty, and lack of role models of junior secondary education.

It will benefit eighteen small ethnic minority groups, whose total population is less than 15,000, in the Central Highlands and northern mountainous region, according to a press release of the bank.

The project will help construct 103 dormitory rooms to provide affordable accommodation for 824 ethnic minority students in three senior secondary boarding schools in the most disadvantaged provinces, namely Lai Chau, Dac Nong, and Ha Giang.