These ethnic women are ’never too old to learn’VietNamNet Bridge – Some nights, when only one classroom light shines at Nam Xuan Commune’s Le Loi Elementary School, you can find students older than the usual elementary schooler. The class meets four times a week, with nearly 30 women from minority ethnic groups in Nam Xuan Commune in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong. — Photo: VNA/VNSThe school offers a literacy class for nearly 30 middle-aged women from minority ethnic groups in the commune--like Thai, Tay and Dao--who usually speak their ethnic language rather than Vietnamese. Le Thi Tuyet, vice principal of Le Loi Elementary School was behind the idea of opening the literacy class for commune women. Especially, in front of them, we never call this a ‘literacy class’ but a ‘class to enhance the Vietnamese language capability’,” she said.

Source: VietNamNet News May 26, 2017 03:56 UTC