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For the beloved highlands

From the visits to friends and relatives in the highlands, Duy found that people here are still facing many difficulties and lacking many things. 

Teacher Le Quang Duy.

Loving the simple, friendly locals together with the natural and majestic beauty of mountains and forests and to make his trips more meaningful, he intended to organize activities to mobilize necessary goods, books, warm clothing, blankets and mosquito nets to help students and people in remote villages. 

Then the “For the beloved highlands" club was born. Not only for the upland people, families in the lower areas who are living with difficulties and serious illness also get help from the club," said Duy.

Despite being busy with school duties and responsibilities for taking care of his family, he always tries to arrange work and take advantage of non-teaching hours and holidays to prepare for the trips. 

In the last 6 years, the club has organized 30 charity trips to most northern mountainous provinces, especially in areas with much difficulty such as Cao Bang, Bac Kan, Dien Bien, Ha Giang, Hoa Binh and Lai Chau ... Objects and cash worth about 4.5 billion VND (193,000 USD) in total mobilized by the club from donors have been donated to tens of thousands of people Teacher Le Quang Duy.

Accompany the teacher are his parents, who are over 70 years old. They always create conditions for and encourage him and his club to organize charity programmes. They volunteer to take care of Duy’s children when both Duy and his wife go for charity. His wife actively helps him in free time. Even children and neighbors also help sort clothes, fold blankets and mosquito nets, and prepare necessary items for his charity trips.

At the Tang Tien Secondary School where Duy's working, colleagues and students have also made active contributions by regularly providing both material and spiritual help to make the trips successful.

The teacher and the "For the beloved highlands" club have come to most of the northern mountainous provinces such as Cao Bang, Bac Kan, Dien Bien and even some communes in Muong Te district (Lai Chau), about 700 km from Bac Giang. In each destination, the club left many impressions on ethnic minorities.

A heart is needed

The "For the beloved highlands" club put goods on car in preparation for a charity trip

Indeed, in the beginning, Duy’s family and friends were very anxious because doing charity work in the province is difficult, going to upland provinces is much more difficult due to far distance, hard and costly travel, and even dangers. But the results of the first charity trips have given more motivation to the teacher and the club members.

Teacher Duy presents gifts to children in Pu Pioot village.

After many years of organizing such trips, Duy recognized that to do charity work well, each person must have a heart to share, love and help others. He stressed that the heart is a necessary condition. In order to make large-scale programmes, organizers must have a strong determination and broad relations and know how to persuade others so that they can understand and be ready to share with those living in difficult circumstances in society.

In the initial stage, calling for funding was very difficult because few people knew and trusted in the club. Recently, thanks to better practice, more and more people have supported Duy and his club so they can call for funding through the social network and directly come to any individual and business to mobilize things that people really need.

Gifts are transported to Thuong Quan Kindergarten in Ngan Son district (Bac Kan province).

"It is good when giving gifts, but how to present gifts is also a problem. We cannot act as gift givers but we need to show our sincere sharing and sympathy. At that time, the gifts, whether valuable and less valuable, are welcomed and respected by the needy people. Having made more than 30 big trips over the past time, we still keep in touch with places where we have come to and see whether their lives get better after the support. If they still have difficulty, we will continue to call for support. I am very happy to see that with the efforts of the people and the support of the charity programmes, the life of people in the highland areas has changed a lot compared to before," said Duy.

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