CEP to foster dreams of children in poverty

Micro financial institution for poor laborers to obtain jobs (CEP) under Ho Chi Minh City Labor Union has helped tens of thousands of people to overcome poverty while preventing ‘black’ credit loans in the community to foster schooling of children. The future outreach of school students in harsh circumstances is shortened thanks to the sharing of CEP.

Cultivation of knowledge

Facing the auspicious but dashing face of the hundreds of poor people, having a difficult family situation is a very good chance to receive a scholarship from the CEP Scholarship Program in 2018, not only for credit officers of the CEP organization in Binh Duong (including 2 branches in Thu Dau Mot and Thuan An Town) that the participants were very touched.

The CEP Scholarship Program has been implemented for many years and is launched on a large scale, from the 2009-2018 school year. Photo credit: CEP gives funding to difficult members in 2018. Photo: Thanh Hong

At the scholarship presentation, perhaps, Ms. Trinh My Phuong is staying at 109, 62, 5, Tuong Binh Hiep Ward, Thu Dau Mot Town. Husband left the second child a few years old, so her mother's life shortage before missing. With a modest salary, even if she has little money, she does not help her family have more meat and fish. The difficult circumstances make the path to her children to school more fragile. When it was difficult, she could not even manage to pay for the tuition. With the enthusiastic support of credit staff CEP Foundation, this year Tran Tuong Vy to 8 grade, her anxiety when the children at the beginning of the new school year has been somewhat relieved.

Phuong did not hide his emotion when he was awarded the CEP Scholarship by the CEP Scholarship Program. "CEP is not only helping people in difficult times as we overcome difficulties, supporting young children who are good at cultivating their intellect but also helping them realize their aspirations. The sincere and heartfelt sentiment of the CEP Foundation has given impetus to the poor in our lives, "she said.

Phuong's heartfelt sympathy is also expressed by the hundreds of poor families who are members of CEP in the province when they receive practical support from the CEP's Community Development Program in 2018.

Contribute to the poor

In the past time, the Party and the State have made many policies and mobilized the whole society to care for the poor; Many units, organizations and individuals jointly carry out pro-poor activities. However, for many objective reasons, somewhere in life there are still unhappy, miserable people, they need the timely sharing and help of the community to be able to overcome the knot of life I'm up. Since its inception in 1991, CEP has been consistently committed to contributing to reducing poverty among workers and workers through the provision of credit, saving and development services. community. In particular, the CEP Scholarship Program was born after a lot of difficulties from the reality of life, from finding, finding and listening to the wishes, aspirations and dreams of the poor and unhappy scenes. . It can be said that CEP scholarships are one of the programs that have sparked dreams, beliefs and energies for students who have overcome the difficulties of studying well, contributing to the enthusiasm and spirit of learning.

Mr. Ho Van Kiep, CEP Branch Director, Thu Dau Mot, said that in parallel with the main activity is to provide financial support to poor workers and self-employed workers, improve incomes and improve living conditions. CEP has implemented many community development programs over the years. The CEP Scholarship Program aims to support and support the children of disadvantaged students who continue to be able to go to school by offering scholarships to cover tuition fees, donations valued at 1, VND5 - 2.5 million per student, depending on conditions, circumstances and academic achievement to motivate students to go to school.

It can be said that in the past few years, CEP's beautiful stamps left in the hearts of customers, CEP's members, the community is the formation and maintenance of charity programs through other supporting activities. . There may be outstanding activities such as financial education programs to improve the understanding of customers on management of capital use, management of savings; building and repairing homes for poor and most demanding clients; organize study, share experiences in developing industry for customers; buy voluntary health insurance for poor families; Financial support for emergency customers and giving essential food to customers during Tet holiday ...

"With the spirit of mutual respect, the desire to share some of the material burden, CEP hopes everyone can join hands, contributing their part to help poor families overcome the burden. difficult period of life. Every single hand, every heart is a valuable sharing and encouragement for CEP's members; Despite the difficult challenges, the dream is still shining on the road of adversity of difficult life, "Mr. Kiep said.

Together with students in 10 years (2009 - 2018), CEP supported 3,184,987 notebooks and 130,965 pens, totaling nearly 18,798 billion VND. CEP also provides 12,168 scholarships to pupils, totaling VND24,396 billion.

Reported by Thanh Hong – Translated by Vi Bao