Vietnamese students receive Dong Hanh Singapore scholarships
Tuesday, 09:30, 17/01/2017
The Dong Hanh Scholarship Fund in Singapore (Dong Hanh Singapore) on January 15 organised a Gala Dinner to raise scholarship funds for disadvantaged Vietnamese students.
Speaking at the Gala Dinner, Minister-Counsellor Dinh Hoang Linh from the Vietnamese Embassy in Singapore, applauded Dong-Hanh Singapore’s scholarship presentation and affirmed that his embassy always support the fund’s activities.
Since its inception in 2014, Dong Hanh Singapore has presented 82 scholarships, each worth SGD230 (US$161), to Vietnamese students, he said.
Huynh Nam Khoa, doctorate graduate at the Nanyang Technology University of Singapore and Chairman of Dong Hanh Singapore, said on the spirit of the Dong Hanh Fund, a non-profit voluntary charity association established in France to assist students in 2001, the association of Vietnamese students in Singapore want to pass study passion to their peers at home.After 15 years, the fund has become a legal entity in France with a network of around 100 members and volunteers in France, Singapore and Taiwan (China).
So far, it has awarded 3,124 scholarships worth EUR260,000 (US$275,670) to students from 16 universities across Vietnam.