However, 9600 of these students will begin school with added benefits after having suffered heavily from the environmental disaster across the Central Coast of Vietnam last year. One of these benefits is the exemption of tuition fees and it will apply to students in secondary schools, kindergartens and senior high schools across the province. This tuition support is estimated to be around 150 thousand USD. Quang Tri's Department of Education is submitting a proposal to the local authorities to grant 200 thousand USD to 10,000 disadvantaged children in need of support.
