In many remote rural parts of Vietnam, children have to walk long distances to go to schools. Their families are so poor that they cannot afford even a bicycle for the children.
To help these children have easier access to schools, Vietnam Foundation funded a program whereby old or discarded bicycles were collected, recycled and then donated to the children.
The bicycle main frames were repainted if they were still solid and usable. Other components were replaced with locally made new parts.
In 2012, 62 such bicycles were recycled at the cost of VND 43 Million (AUD 2000).
They were handed over in September 2012 (beginning of the new school year) to school children in Thừa-Thiên Huế and the adjacent provinces of Quảng Trị and Đà Nẳng.
The children were selected based on their academic standing and the economic condition of their family.
In Thừa Thiên-Huế:
- Hương Long Primary school: 7 bicycles
- Quảng An Primary School: 8 bicycles
- Hương Hồ High School: 7 bicycles
- Hương Thủy High School: 7 bicycle
- Education Association (Hội Khuyến Học) of Đông Xuyên: 7 bicycles
- Student Trần văn An (Bình Điền Primary School): 1 bicycle
- Student Tôn Thất Lập (Hương An Primary School): 1 bicycle
- Student Nguyễn thị Thúy Hằng (Hương An High School): 1 bicycle
- Student Nguyễn thi Ngân (Dương Hòa High School): 1 bicycle
- Student Nguyễn thị Thứ (Huế University of Sciences): 1 bicycle
- Student Nguyễn thị Giàu (Huế College of Advanced Education):1 bicycle
In Quảng Trị Students in Trí Bửu village: 10 bicycles
In Đà Nẵng: Phước Tường Diocese: 10 bicycles
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Thanks to further funds donated by our members and supporters, in 2013, we financed a second batch of 185 bicycles at the cost of VND 130 M (about 6000 AUD).
Most of these bicycles have been distributed to students in Huế, Quảng Trị and Quảng Ngãi provinces in August and September 2013.
As in the previous year, some of the scouts groups in these locations helped us with the selection of students and the distribution of the bicycles.
In Huế and Quảng Trị:
- 3 Primary and 2 High schools in Kim Long, Hue: 50 bicycles
- Quảng An Primary School: 10 bicycles
- Quảng An High School: 10 bicycles
- Hương Hồ High School: 10 bicycles
- Hương Thủy High School: 10 bicycles
- Education Association (Hội Khuyến Học) of Đông Xuyên: 9 bicycles
- Students, who are also novice monks at Linh Mụ Pagoda: 10 bicycles
- Orphans at Đức Sơn Orphange: 10 bicycles
- Distributed by 4 scouts groups in Huế: 40 bicycles
In Quảng Ngãi: 2 schools: 30 bicycles
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