​On May 12, 2022, the Provincial Union of Friendship Organizations coordinated with the People's Committees of Long Thanh and Trang Bom districts to receive and work with the Cooperation and Participation In Overseas NGOs (COPION)/South Korea delegation to survey Tap Phuoc Primary School in Hamlet 5, Long Phuoc Commune, Long Thanh district and Nguyen Tri Phuong Primary School in Tay Hoa Commune, Trang Bom District about the progress of the project "LS Dream School 18 and the implementation of project “LS Dream School 20".

Participating in the survey were Mr. Kim Jae Chul - Chief Representative of COPION in Vietnam, officials and employees of the Foreign Non - Governmental Affairs Division, the Provincial Union of Friendship Organizations and officials in charge of the projects in localities.

 

The delegation conducting the survey at Tap Phuoc Primary School.

It is known that Tap Phuoc Primary School, which was built in 1996, is now degraded. There is no teacher’s room in the school. There aren’t enough classrooms, and the students have to study in un-equipped classrooms. Therefore, COPION and LS Group/South Korea have decided to sponsor 1.5 billion VNĐ, together with the local counterpart's capital of more than 2.8 billion VND to build 05 new classrooms in the school.

At the survey, representatives of Long Thanh District People's Committee, Mr. Nguyen Van Toan, Head of Education and Training Division, said that currently the project is behind schedule, but he hopes to inaugurate a new school on the occasion of the upcoming opening ceremony in September, so that students can have a spacious and clean environment to start the new school year.

Also during the survey, at Nguyen Tri Phuong Primary School, Tay Hoa Commune, Trang Bom District, Mr. Kim Jae Chul - Chief Representative of COPION in Vietnam and the delegation surveyed the current status of 04 classrooms built in 1998 which is located on the pond floor seriously degraded and subsided. LS Dream School 20 project is carried out with the sponsorship of 02 billion VNĐ, the local counterpart's capital of 900 million VNĐ.

The representative of Trang Bom District People's Committee, Mr. Nguyen Phan Hoang Long - Deputy Head of the Education and Training Division, said that the school has now liquidated public assets and handed over the premises to the construction agency, and committed to accelerate progress and inaugurate the project at the beginning of the new school year. The project will help 750 students of Nguyen Tri Phuong Primary School to study in spacious classrooms, improving the quality of teaching and learning of the school.

The Delegation conducting survey at Nguyen Tri Phuong Primary School 

LS Dream School 18 and LS Dream School 20 are two projects in the annual series of funding activities to build and upgrade the degraded Elementary Schools of COPION/South Korea and LS Group for Dong Nai province with the budget for each project from 1.5 billion to 2 billion. The implementation of the project will help improve facilities and the quality of education for some Primary schools in Dong Nai province, and simultaneously further strengthen solidarity, friendship and cooperation between the people of Vietnam and South Korea.