Since the beginning of Oct 2020, people in central Vietnam have been exposed to constant natural disasters, including widespread flooding, landslides and large damaging storms. According to the latest UNICEF’s press release, at least 135.000 families in this region have been suffering heavy losses of property and over 1.5 million children are at a high risk of disruption in education.
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”, said Nelson Mandela. At Da Nang city, Passerelles numeriques Vietnam (PNV) has been supporting nearly 500 underserved students from 7 provinces of central Vietnam which have been directly impacted by the Molave storm and recent historic floods. We provide the students with a free 3-year vocational training in the digital sector which will enable them to acquire stable employability, and furthermore, help their siblings continue the education and aid their family to escape poverty in a sustainable way.
However, the extreme weather during the October in Da nang currently poses a major threat to our students’ study. Due to the huge rainfall, the leaking roofs and humid walls of our classrooms have increased the hygrometry drastically – with over than 90% humidity for several days in a row that left more than 40% of our computers heavily damaged. As a result, approximately 50% of student study time for IT subjects have been suspended.
Knowing that this could happen, PNV has taken precautions to protect the computer equipment from the humidity: we sealed the doors and windows, covered CPUs, monitors, switches before the heavy rains arrived; clean ups are done already twice a year to prevent the dust to stock up in the CPU and oxyding down the circuits. Eventually, the damage to the computers with more than 10 years old is still unavoidable.
Labrooms covered before the heavy rain
Ceilings leaking in Labrooms
Wet floor in Learning Lab
Damaged desks in Labroom 3
We urgently need public donations to ensure sufficient learning resources for our training program. This is the list of parts that were damaged (they are all over 10-years old), grouped by lab rooms and type of equipment. One second-hand desktop computer is estimated around 3,3mil VND, one desk at 1,5mil VND:
Desktop computers with following specifications: Dell 7010, i5 3470, Ram 4Gb, HDD 500GB.
YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS MAKE OUR STUDENTS STUDY POSSIBLE. PLEASE JOIN HANDS WITH US!
- Beneficiary’s bank
VIETNAM TECHNOLOGICAL AND COMMERCIAL JOINT STOCK BANK
Address: 01-03 Le Dinh Ly street, Danang city, Vietnam.
Swift code: VTCBVNVX
- Beneficiary
– Name: PASSERELLES NUMERIQUES(PN)
– USD Account No: 19134608156027
– VND Account No: 19134608156019