Story
Lào Cai is a mountainous province where ethnic minorities comprise 70% of the total population of 600,000. Among these, there are 1,007 particularly disadvantaged villages. Despite facing numerous challenges in their daily lives, the people of Lào Cai greatly emphasize education. Evidence of this can be seen in the many bilingual Hmong-Vietnamese schools in the province and the support from parents who helped rebuild schools after landslides. This dedication has inspired the Dream Library to come to Lào Cai, aiming to contribute in a small way to promoting and creating conditions for students to access knowledge easily and with inspiration.
Parents Rebuild Schools for Their Children After Farming Hours
Through an introduction from the Fatherland Front, Dream Library learned that Si Ma Cai and Bat Xat are two border districts in Lao Cai that still face significant difficulties and are rarely reached by social projects due to their remote locations. These areas particularly struggle with educational infrastructure, including limited classrooms, a lack of modern teaching equipment, and insufficient textbooks, all of which affect the students' learning and development. With the rugged mountainous terrain, many students must walk for hours on rough and dangerous paths to reach school.
Despite these challenges, thanks to the dedicated efforts of teachers and the perseverance of the students and their parents, the primary school attendance rate has reached 98%.
80% of Students at Sin Cheng School in Si Ma Cai District, Lao Cai Province, are Hmong ethnic group
With the hope of motivating these students to attend school every day and providing teachers with additional Vietnamese language resources for the children, Dream Library commits to joining forces with the community to build two fully furnished creative art libraries. These libraries will be stocked with thousands of carefully selected, engaging books, bringing a new reading culture experience to the poor schools in Si Ma Cai and Bat Xat districts, Lao Cai province.
A minority student during a Vietnamese language lesson
Books are one of the key elements in building and developing learning abilities in children during their early stages. The pages of books contain dream stories that transport children to magical lands where they are free to imagine their worlds and indirectly view the vibrant world through books, fostering their creativity.
A completed Dream Library under construction
The Dream Library Project aims to raise 200,000,000 VND through the Crypto for Life fundraising channel. This amount is equivalent to building two libraries for primary school students in remote areas of Lao Cai province, providing 2,000 books, and giving 900 children in disadvantaged regions the opportunity to access books - a source of endless creativity.
Information about the Fund & Sponsors
As of September 2023, the project has built 183 Dream Libraries across more than 23 provinces in Vietnam: Ben Tre, Binh Phuoc, Dak Lak, Dak Nong, Dong Nai, Ha Giang, Hoa Binh, Can Gio Island Commune - HCM, Kon Tum, Lam Dong, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, Son La, Tay Ninh, Thanh Hoa, Tuyen Quang, Vinh Long, Ba Ria – Vung Tau, Yen Bai, Bac Giang, Bac Ninh, Binh Phuoc, Tien Giang, Dong Thap... with over 109,800 students accessing books and participating in artistic activities.
Donation Goals
- 2 Dream Libraries
- Over 2,000 books
- More than 900 benefiting students