A working team from the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security stationed at the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) donated nearly 2,000 school supplies to teachers and students at two schools in the East African country on Sunday.

To celebrate the Day of the African Child (June 16), the Vietnamese police team joined hands with other units under the UNMISS and local police officers to visit African students and make donations.

UNMISS officers and experts had talks with over 1,700 students at two schools in Juba Internally Displaced Person (IDP) Camp I to raise awareness of the significance of education.

Apart from providing them with knowledge, the UNMISS officers gave presents to the schoolgirls.

Moreover, the Vietnamese officers awarded some 2,000 school supplies, including notebooks, pens, pencils, and chalks, mainly sourced from the Women’s Union of the Ministry of Public Security, to teachers and students at the two schools to ease their straits.

The students were also presented with toys, brushes, art paper, and balls by the UNMISS.

This was the third time the Vietnamese working team had represented the Women’s Union of the ministry to do charity.

The donation was expected to bring happiness and hope to the African students who are hurt by the internal displacement crisis.

The Day of the African Child has been celebrated on June 16 each year since 1991, honoring students who participated in the Soweto Uprising in 1976 on that day and raising awareness of the continuing need for improvement of education to African children.

Some tens of thousands of African students joined the uprising, protesting the poor quality of education and demanding their right to be taught in their own language.

Over 100 students were killed and more than 1,000 others were injured in the protests of the following two weeks.

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