A farmer in Vietnam has touched everyone’s heart after making a land donation for local authorities to build a proper kindergarten out of pity for local children, who are members of ethnic minority groups.

Ho Thi Khun lives in Khe Ngat, a commune in Quang Binh Province where the local community, composed mainly of ethnic minority people, could not afford any appropriate facility to provide education for their children.

Khun, herself an impoverished day-to-day farmer, has therefore decided to offer 850 square meters of her 2,500-square-meter plot of land so a school can be built.

The woman is even less fortunate than many others. Her husband passed away long before, leaving behind their six daughters and his ill-stricken 70-year-old mother to the care of Khun.

In order to make ends meet, she has to resort to doing odd jobs, besides toiling herself away from dawn till dusk on the meager-yielded farmland.

Many have urged Khun to sell off part of her land, so that she could live a somewhat better life, which she refused.

Only 15 out of the 95 households of Khe Ngat have land for cultivation.

As a tradition, parents will split the land and divide it among their children when they get married.

Local land owners said it is already difficult for them to follow the tradition, let alone have spare land to donate for the kindergarten construction.

This explains why children coming of age in the commune have had to literally study underneath the community's cultural center for the past ten years.

Whenever the center has to host festivals or meetings, the teachers would have no choice but to let their students take the day off.

Living next to the cultural center, Khun was no stranger to the state her children had to suffer.

In early 2017, the Khe Ngat administration said it would build a kindergarten for the commune, but the problem was there was no land available for construction.

Khun then offered to use part of her land to house the kindergarten, a decision she was immediately ridiculed for.

People mocked that while her name, Khun, means ‘smart,’ the woman was unwise to give away her land, she said.

“But I think otherwise,” she added.

“For our children to have a better future, we need some sacrifice.

“And I believe I have made the right choice.”

It is expected that 40 children aged three to five in Khe Ngat will have a proper place to play and study in the academic year 2018-19, starting this fall.

This is all thanks to Ho Thi Khun and her selflessness.