Vietnam: Mr. Jimmy Thai and VMG Media Corporation Donated School in Remote Region of Vietnam

“Build a School – Leave a Legacy” Project Highlights

School the Day Before the Grand Opening

Official Turnover Ceremony of the School to Local Leaders

In welcoming the new school year 2015-2016, on 31/8/2015, Mr. Jimmy Thai, a Vietnamese American with two individual donors and VMG Media Corporation staff in collaboration with Education and Social Affairs Magazine has donated a three-classroom kindergarten school in rural mountain of Dong Tam village, Bac Quang district, Ha Giang province, with total investment of 322 million VND ($14.6K USD).

Mr. Tran Van Hoa, Provincial Commissioner and District Party Chief, spoke at the ceremony, "The generous donations and kind hearts of philanthropists have helped alleviating the District’s infrastructure difficulties in providing preschool education for age-5 children."  He also said the District still struggles to build more schools in remote, mountainous locations, and welcomes all sponsors, donors in collaborations for building more kindergarten and elementary schools for needed children.  He emphasized to local leaders and school administrators that they must purposely operate and maintain this gifted school. He also presented the Ha Giang Governor’s Awards of Merit to Mr. Jimmy Thai and other donors for their contributions to the school construction.

Mr. Jimmy Thai received the Governor's Award

Speaking at the Grand Opening ceremony, Mr. Thai thanked Bac Quang district leaders, Bureau of Education and Training, the people Dong Tam village, and other donors for their united efforts in executing his “Build a School – Leave a Legacy” vision for Vietnam. Recognizing the brand new school still needs a kitchen quarter and toilet facility, he promised to continue seeking funding for the construction and pledged to support 20 million VND ($1K USD).

In this round of funding, in addition to supporting Mr. Thai’s school construction, VMG Media Corporation donated 25 million VND ($1.2K USD) to build a fence around the school and presented gifts such as clothing, school books, toys, comics and packaged food to all students with financial difficulties. In the last three years, the company has collaborated with Educational Bureaus, and the Education and Social Affairs magazine publisher to survey, select, and support the construction of 16 classrooms in hard-to-reach mountainous communes in the provinces Yen Bai, Lao Cai, and Bac Quang.

Presented gifts to all children

The same day, the delegation visited potential future school locations such as Pu Don Mountaintop and Hoa Hong Kindergarten.  The later school has been established for 10 years but has no classroom.  Construction cost to add three classrooms is in the range of 200 million VND (9K USD); survey plans and construction is scheduled for November 2015 if funding is secured from donors in America, Germany, Canada, and Vietnam.

Currently, the "“Build a School – Leave a Legacy” project is working four more schools in Yen Bai, Ha Giang, Ca Mau, and Binh Phuoc with Project Leaders from Vietnam, Germany, and America.

For more information on donations, collaborations, or other school locations that we are raising funds, please visit our website, send us an email, or call +1 858 769 9090:

http://leadershipfoundationacademy.com/schools.html

donate@leadershipfoundationacademy.com

Source: www.Giaoducvaxahoi.vn website, highlighted English translation by LFA Solutions Corp.
Original news from Education and Society Magazine Homepage:
http://giaoducvaxahoi.vn/giao-duc-dao-tao/ha-giang-ong-jmy-hoang-tri-u-thai-va-cong-ty-c-ph-n-truy-n-thong-vmg-trao-t-ng-l-p-h-c-t-i-huy-n-b-c-quang.html

Blogger Bio

Jimmy Thai, DTM founded the Leadership Foundation Academy to develop future leaders with passion and compassion.  He speaks and coaches Fortune500 companies to re-infuse the American Pride in corporate America and the American Dream to the world.  He went to prison twice before turning 17, and today lives in American Finest City – San Diego, California.  Jimmy earned 2 Master’s degrees MBA and MSEE from California State University, and BSEE degree from the 20^th best university in the world - University of California San Diego.  He welcomes your comments and loves to collaborate with you on Change Leadership, Motivational Management, Decision Analysis, the ABC Secrets of Appearance - Body language - Conversation, and Asian Business Development. 

In 2015, Leadership Foundation Academy has donated over $10K USD to its Build a School – Leave a Legacy program, which built 2 kindergarten schools in Ha Giang and Yen Bai provinces.  Our 3^rd project is to construct a 30-m bridge in Tran Van Thoi district, Ca Mau to save little students from drowning on their way to school.