Thua Thien – Hue (VNA) – A ceremony to presentOdon Vallet scholarships to 193 outstanding students took place in the centralprovince of Thua Thien-Hue on September 1.
The scholarships were worth over 2.2 billion VND in total,with those for university students (63) valued at 16 million VND each and forhigh school students - 9.5 million VND.
The recipients included prize winners of internationalOlympiads and national academic competitions, students ranked in top places inuniversity graduation exams, and students with excellent academic performanceselected by high schools in local townships, communes and districts.
Speaking at the event, Vice Chairman of the provincialPeople’s Committee Nguyen Dung thanked professors Tran Thanh Van and OdonVallet for donating all interest payments of their savings to grantscholarships to Vietnamese students.
In 1999, Odon Vallet set up the Vallet Scholarship Fund forhigh-achieving students in France, Vietnam and Bennin (Germany). The funding isdrawn from personal inheritance from his father, once a poor labourer who madehis fortune from the insurance business.
To date, more than 25,000 scholarships have been given toVietnamese students worth a total in excess of 170 billion VND (7.39 millionUSD).
The fund also assisted in building libraries in HueHigh School for the Gifted and Hai Ba Trung high schools in Hue city.-VNA
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At the event (Source: VNA) 
