Thao Wei is determined to study because his mother had a difficult life – Photo: DUY NGOC
Nowadays, the house is made of temporary corrugated iron sheets, which is located in about 30m2 yard of grandma’s house so that it is fun but also very worrying. In the near future, his eldest daughter Vu Thi Thao Wei will enter Da Lat University and major in English language.
That was Thao VI
What a hard life a mother has!
After two broken marriages, Nguyen Thi Thu Van raised her children alone early in the day. With no land, no farm, for decades the mother has worked hard to make a living with her two daughters.
The grocery store allows the kids to earn money to go out into the field every day. And he bought some fruits and vegetables to sell in the market. Luckily, the market is crowded, and goods sell out quickly. Facing a bad day, he tried to do one or two other market runs to sell them all before returning.
All day, but he said that the maximum profit is about one million, but generally earning a few tens of thousands is already fun.
It is very difficult, but that single mother says that what is so difficult in her life! Every day when she wakes up, she tells herself that she has to work hard and work hard for the future of her children.
“I didn’t study well, so I couldn’t let my children suffer like me. My two children were like young storks in the middle of life, deprived because they didn’t have fathers to rely on, I Told ourselves that everything has to be overcome. Difficulties and challenges, we must try to let our two children learn,” Ms. Van said.
Not discouraged, Vu Thi Thao Wei and her sister are always good, helping their mother and studying hard. During his high school years, Wei was a very good student. The sister who is studying in class VI this year is also following her sister’s footsteps and doing well in her studies.
Mother and daughter have the same determination
Like many other friends, Vi also wants to go to university. But the day she received the result of her English language major, Thao Wei was in a dilemma because she knew that her mother could not take care of her going to school. Wei said she was happy to receive the news that she had passed university, but thinking about tuition fees and then the cost of accommodation while living away from home, she didn’t know how her mother would manage.
For more than a month now, Vi has asked to help out at a coffee shop near her home. When there is a party, Vi runs to Phan Rang – Thap Cham town, more than 10 kilometers away from home, to attend a wedding party with a salary of 150,000 VND/session, hoping to save a little Which will reduce the burden. to his mother when entering the country. Learn.
The girl who was jealous of her mother or stopped going to school. At that time, my mother cried a lot and said that no matter how hard she was, she still tried her best to take care of the two sisters to continue their studies. Her mother tried and kept such a belief, the more Wei decided to go to university.
Learn how to change your life for both mom and sister. If you plan to enroll well, you will get a part-time job in a restaurant near the school to help your mother support you.
Glad that the daughter knows how to love her mother and study well. But a mother’s heart is also full of hundreds of clues. Ms. Van mentally calculated: “If I go to school far away, the cost is definitely big, small businesses like mine save every penny, I am so worried that I dare not say it. But whether it No matter how hard it is, I have to try, I can’t stop learning. I don’t want my children to have a miserable life.”
Teacher Le Van Tinh, Thao Wei’s 12th grade homeroom teacher, said Wei’s family is almost poor, her mother works hard alone to support her two sisters. Realizing the difficulties, Vi makes efforts and always gets pretty good students. You are also an exemplary union secretary, active in school movements.
“V’s intention was just to graduate from high school and then find a job to help her adoptive mother. We encouraged her to put in a little more effort because V’s academic ability is good. The road ahead will be difficult, but I believe in him. It will pass,” Mr. Tinh said.
concern when students are still difficult
One-way special reunion at Tuoyi Tre newspaper office in mid-August. Although the schedule of activities sometimes has to change constantly, when inviting a relay club meeting at Quang Nam – Da Nang School, everyone makes work arrangements to attend.
They came to give Tuoy Tre 1.5 billion dong, the equivalent of 100 scholarship relays to the school this year for new students from his hometown of Quang. Mr. Pham Phu Tam – the club’s president – said that what motivated everyone to come here was nothing more than concern when there were new students and children from their hometowns who were facing difficulties to enter the university. Was doing.
Almost everyone is busy, partly due to economic constraints, but the meeting needs to be announced in preparation for awarding scholarships to poor new students, everyone is active. In the 20th year of operation, the number of members leaving is very less, the number of new recruits is increasing day by day.
Providing 1.5 billion VND scholarships for poor new students in Quang to support the school in 2023 – Photo: D.Phan
“It should be love for the motherland, love for the youth who overcome difficulties and rise up. We want to spread positive feelings and timely encouragement so that they can have more energy in life, first of all, open the door Lecture hall gate,” Mr. Tam said.
Ms. Qiu Thi Kim Lan – the club’s vice president – remembers last year when the number of new students was higher than expected, putting a lot of pressure on everyone. This year is no exception when members have to face difficulties in general economic condition. But the 15 million VND in scholarship is already difficult for the students as all the cost are increasing nowadays.
“It was pressure, but I kept campaigning, calling everyone I knew, I knew the conditions were there, everyone was a little bit better,” Mrs. Lan smiled.
Nguyen Hoang Nguyen, deputy editor-in-chief of the Tuải Tre newspaper, expressed that Quang is an extraordinary example of students’ energy, resilience motivation towards school and the spirit of sharing “the source of life” and student effort. ,
Mr. Nguyen shared, “Every sharing is valuable, especially in the present situation, it is even more valuable to extend a hand to share the difficulties with the poor new students.”
