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Nov. 2024 · Bản Pu-Thành Sơn school

Bản Pu-Thành Sơn: 84 children equipped

The association’s founding act, two months after Typhoon Yagi: coats, water purifiers, desks and televisions for the school’s 84 children.

  • Winter
  • Drinking water
  • School furniture
Children in new red and black coats gather on the school steps, under the operation’s banner.
The pupils of Bản Pu in their new coats, November 2024.

The story

On the ground

In September 2024, Typhoon Yagi struck northern Vietnam. A first operation, funded by the company where Mathias works, equipped the 84 children of the Bản Pu school, part of Thành Sơn primary school in Quan Hóa district.

It was this operation that led to the founding of the association, in January 2025.

In pictures

Photos of the action

On a dirt track among the bamboo, a woman loads fodder onto a motorbike; a car waits behind.
On the road to Bản Pu.
A tree-lined dirt track leads to a small green-roofed building at the foot of a wooded mountain.
Arriving at the school, at the end of a dirt track.
About fifteen people pose under the sign “Trường tiểu học Thành Sơn – Điểm trường: Khu Pu”, at the foot of wooded cliffs.
The team in front of Thành Sơn primary school, Khu Pu site.
Schoolyard under a large tree: families wait under an awning, children play near the gate.
Families wait in the schoolyard.
Sheets of Vietnamese syllables taped to a yellow wall stained with mould.
The syllable chart, on a wall damaged by damp.
Posters of multiplication and division tables and arithmetic rules on a classroom wall.
Arithmetic tables on display in a classroom.
Young volunteers in blue shirts assemble new desks and chairs in a classroom.
Assembling the new desks.
Pupils in red and black coats write in their exercise books, seated at light wooden desks.
The pupils at their new desks, in their new coats.
About sixty children pose on the school steps, next to boxes of noodles, milk and biscuits and a pile of coats.
The pupils gathered on the steps, before the handout.
About twenty people sitting on mats share a meal in a classroom.
A meal shared with the teachers and volunteers.
Volunteers from the association and villagers, sitting cross-legged on mats, talk in a wooden house.
A conversation in a village house.
A wooden stilt house beside a dirt track, with a motorbike and a dog in the foreground.
A stilt house in the village.

Help us prepare the next action.

Secure donation via HelloAsso. €3 buys a winter coat, €115 a water purifier.

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