“Warm Winter”: Giving Love

Students are carefully painting the rocking duck - an outdoor toy model at the school.

Warm Winter Volunteer Trip “For Your Smile” in Banh Trach, Ba Be, Bac Kan is the first volunteer activity in a series of activities of the school's youth, carried out by the Student Social Work Team (from January 11-13, 2019).

During the days of implementing the program, the weather was unfavorable due to rain, but it did not prevent the whole team from setting out with high spirit and enthusiasm. The volunteer group presented gifts, learning tools, outdoor playground models, and fences to 8 schools. In addition, the team presented 107 gifts to students at 8 disadvantaged schools including: warm blankets, boots, warm coats, comics, coloring books, writing books, colored pens, pencils and some toys... The 33 members participating in the "Warm Winter Journey" all shared that: This was a meaningful trip because the humanistic meaning of the program and the enthusiasm of youth made the whole group not afraid of difficulties and hardships.

Alphabet and numbers made from used bottle caps - products of volunteers

Then, on January 14-15, 2019, 02 45-seat buses carrying 95 volunteers of the Stone Flower Club carried out the volunteer campaign."Warmth of Tien Lu"at Tien Lu Rehabilitation School, Hung Yen. During the 2 days of volunteering here, the volunteers joined hands to clean up, redecorate the school and organize many traditional games for the school's students such as: jumping rope, jumping bamboo poles, ... with the enthusiastic response of the students. In addition to 214 gifts for the students, members of the Stone Flower Club also brought dong leaves to make banh chung, fragrant sticky rice, and helped the students wrap banh chung to celebrate Tet. Although their hands were still clumsy, the students could not hide the joy on their faces when the older students guided them to wrap the first banh chung...

A club member shared: The purpose of the trip is to bring "warmth" to the children in the cold last days of winter... But the students in the group also feel the warmth that the children bring, to connect, understand and love each other more...

Giving gifts to students at Tien Lu Rehabilitation School, Hung Yen (Photo: Stone Flower Club)

On the same day, January 14, the Student Volunteer Team carried out a volunteer trip "Spring comes to give love" in Duc Hanh, Bao Lam district, Cao Bang province.

However, the weather was not favorable and Duc Hanh commune is a poor commune with difficult and remote terrain. Regardless of wind and rain, 30 volunteers walked more than 15km to Coc Ly Primary School to give gifts, warm blankets, clothes, school supplies, books and essential food to the students here with a total value of about 50 million.

Volunteers of the Hoa Da Club wrap banh chung with students (Photo: Hoa Da Club)

Not only that, the journey "Warm Winter Northwest" from January 14 to January 16, 2019 in collaboration with the Forever 20 Fund, the school's youth had a memorable journey, spreading more humanistic values ​​to all regions of the country. With 22 volunteers of the Flame of 20 Club and the Fund's warriors, the delegation had a volunteer trip to Phieng Ngua village (Son La) and Dien Bien Dong district (Dien Bien) with gifts to contribute a small part to bring a warm and happy Tet to the people here. The delegation gave more than 100 warm clothes to disadvantaged children in Dien Bien Dong district and 08 gifts to 08 policy households in Phieng Ngua village (Son La).

Organizing folk games at school (Photo: Stone Flower Club)

Giving gifts at the primary school in Duc Hanh, Bao Lam, Cao Bang (photo: SVTN Assault Team).

Dr. Tran Bach Hieu presented a souvenir to the representative of Dien Bien Dong District Youth Union.