“HBEING OUT IS MY FAVORITE”
Nearly 30 orphans due to the Covid-19 epidemic were taken by their parents to Vietluxtour headquarters early in the morning to join the tour. Aunts and uncles at Vietluxtour and Bao Youth has completed all preparations to welcome the children.
Mr. Tran The Dung, General Director of Vietluxtour Travel Joint Stock Company, shared with children and their families: “A year of hard work has passed, summer is here, please put your worries aside for now. learning to enter the exciting and rewarding summer. Today, Vietluxtour is honored to accompany the newspaper Youth in the program Let’s go on with life, giving the children practical experience and deeper understanding of the heroic activities of the Saigon Rangers; At the same time, it is also an opportunity for children to connect and have fun with new friends.”
Mr. Tran The Dung, General Director of Vietluxtour Travel Joint Stock Company, gave gifts to the children before departure
Journalist Tran Thanh Binh, Head of Readers Department, Newspaper Reader Affairs Committee Youth, expressed appreciation to Vietluxtour for designing and organizing a special, free tour for children, as well as thanking parents for taking the time to bring their children to the program. After receiving gifts from Mr. Tran The Dung and journalist Tran Thanh Binh, the children eagerly got on the bus and started their journey.
TKKh (8th grade, Chanh Hung Secondary School, District 8) shared: “I just had a summer vacation, but my uncles and aunts let me go out, I really liked it. I was so excited that I just went today, but the day before yesterday I remembered the wrong date. 17.5, so in the morning of May 17th, I told my mother to drive me, I knew the wrong date when I arrived. This morning I was also taken by my grandfather early, but the car broke down in the middle of the road, I thought I could not go, but I did not expect the aunts and uncles to be very hot. love, wait and take your children here by motorbike to visit and have fun with you.”
Journalist Tran Thanh Binh gives gifts to children
USAAN UNFORGETTABLE FUN DAY
Right after the wheelchair rolled, the children were introduced by Vietluxtour’s tour guide to the history of Saigon – Gia Dinh formation, about the resistance war against foreign invaders of Ho Chi Minh City’s army and people, about the Special Forces. Saigon Cave. Thanks to the introduction from the car, when they arrived at the first attraction, the Saigon Ranger Museum (145 Tran Quang Khai, District 1), the children were not too surprised but very eager to experience.
Here, the children were moved by an ancient elevator (dating from the anti-French resistance war) to the 2nd floor, where exhibits and documents about the Saigon Rangers. After watching the documentary footage of the Saigon Rangers, the children were quenched with delicious peach tea. Especially, when knowing that the children came to visit, the Saigon Special Forces Museum gave each child a cash gift of 100,000 VND.
The next destination is the secret mailbox and floating cellar of the Saigon Rangers, Do Phu coffee shop (113A Dang Dung, District 1). For the first time, witness firsthand the secret vault under the floor, where documents and weapons are stored, see the tunnel to escape as well as hear a description of how special forces send letters and messages to each other. In Saigon, the children were extremely surprised and delighted.
The children enjoyed seeing the artifacts at the Saigon Ranger Museum
They are excited to participate in teambuilding
After having lunch at the secret cellar of the Saigon Rangers at 270 Vo Van Tan, District 3, the delegation moved to the Reunification Palace. It can be said that this is the place they like the most because the space is beautiful and there are many interesting places to visit. Coming to each room, the children listened attentively to Vietluxtour’s tour guide explaining the function and related stories.
“Tired but so happy,” said HNT, who lives in District 6, after walking too much in the Reunification Palace. Although tired, but when listening to the uncle and aunts in the delegation announcing that they would organize teambuilding with attractive gifts, HNT and friends immediately excitedly participated.
Movement games organized by the tour guides of Vietluxtour brought lots of laughter and gifts for the children. Thereby, the children get to know each other and meet each other in future meetings under the common house Youth.
Ms. Nguyen Thien Nga, mother of NCS (born in 2015, living in Tan Binh district) shared: “Since the day L.’s father died, I really wanted to take my children out, but the situation was single and the family was difficult. So I had to leave my children at home, feeling very guilty. So when I heard that the newspaper and the company organized the Saigon Ranger tour for our children, we were both very happy and eager to participate.”
NCS girl happily boasted: “After stressful days of studying and exams, yesterday I had a party in class, today I can go sightseeing, I really like it!”.
Saigon Ranger Tour by Newspaper Youth and Vietluxtour Travel Joint Stock Company jointly implemented, designed specifically for orphans due to the Covid-19 epidemic in the summer of 2023. All expenses (699,000 VND/child) are sponsored by Vietluxtour.
After the first phase on May 24, it is expected that the next sessions will be held in mid-June and early July 2023. Parents who are interested and want to let their children participate in the program, please register via zalo, phone number: 0989599973 (Journalist Kim Phuong – Readers Affairs Committee, Newspaper). Youth).