VietNamNet Bridge – In order to arrange enough money for their
children to attend the university entrance exams, a lot of parents have to sell
all buffalos, cows, pigs and rice. And they would have to sell more valuable
assets to get money to fund their children’s study.
The biggest worry of the parents
whose children attended this year’s university entrance exams is that their
children may fail the exams. However, they would be even more worried, if their
children pass the exams. They would have to work harder to earn more money for
their children to go to university.
The dream of the poor
The man rejoiced greatly when
meeting a woman named Yen. “I have been looking for you. Go to visit me in my
home village one day, when you have spare time. I would reserve 100 kilos of
oranges for you,” the man said.
Yen said the man came to thank
for her help. “The man and his daughter did not have money to pay to the taxi
motorbike driver. Meanwhile, they hurried to go to school to follow necessary
formalities to attend the exams. I decided to pay to the taxi motorbike driver
for them,” Yen explained.
The parent was Doan Van Phuc, a
Muong minority man in Hoa Binh province. Before leaving for Hanoi with the
daughter, Phuc and his wife sold everything they had, including 500 kilos of
oranges, one pig and 400 kilos or rice for 5 million dong.
He left 500,000 dong for the
wife, while bringing the remaining 4.5 million dong with himself to Hanoi. This
was a huge sum of money for Phuc, but it was just enough for him to spend
within 10 days.
Phuc was lucky enough when he met
some people, who donated him hundreds of thousands of dong, which helped him
and the daughter to stay in Hanoi for some more days, until the girl finished
the exams.
The worry of the poor
Phuc, like many other Vietnamese
parents, wish to see their children going to universities. They would tighten
their belt to save money to fund their children’s study. Following university
education, in their thoughts, is the only way that helps them change their
lives.
Ba Van Loi from Nam Dinh, told
reporters that he does not know what major his daughter plans to follow. The
only thing clear to him is that his daughter has a very good learning capacity
and she needs to follow university education, no matter what he has to do to
fund her study.
However, if their children pass
the exams to be able to go to university, the parents would be bent over with
the financial burden. The tuitions, even with the state’s support, remain
unaffordable to many parents. Meanwhile, everything is expensive in big cities.
Le Thuy Hanh from Thanh Hoa
province said that there are many families in her village who have children
going to university. “They told me that they have to pay nearly 20 million dong
a year, which is a huge sum of money for me. We will never earn such a big sum
of money, even if we starve ourselves.
“I would take pride if my
daughter passes the exams to university. However, I still do not know how I can
arrange money for her,” she complained.
“Old people do not need much
food. We will have one meal a day, if necessary,” she said.
Source: VTC
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