Dear Benefactors;
Phú Mỡ is located 100 km far from Tuy Hòa city in the North West, Phú Mỡ highlands, Đồng Xuân district (Phú Yên) is separated from the delta, bordering Bình Định and Gia Lai. Due to its geographic location, Phú Mỡ has been named as “the highest, the farthest, the poorest, the hardest and the most heroic” of the province.
Phú Mỡ is still an extremely difficult commune, with poor, near poor households accounting for 75% to 80%. This is due to geographic conditions – it’s divided by many rivers and streams. The weather is very harsh, season of extended sunshine, even grass pasture is no more. During flood season, the whole commune was inundated, divided, and erode production land.
Finally, we were able to come to the people of Phú Mỡ, although roads were very difficult because of rain and flood. People waited to receive gifts from morning but our delegation didn’t reach Phú Mỡ till 5 pm. This was a difficult and dangerous trip.
On December 10th, the delegation tried to go to Phú Mỡ to give presents but because of rain, flood and 9km left the delegation had to return with the relief material. It is known that the people of Phú Mỡ have been isolated for a month. There are no charity groups to give gifts even though some delegations have tried, but have moved to another place because they can not go.
Heavy rain made traveling more difficult, on 25/12/2016 we decided to bring gifts to Phú Mỡ people because we did not want people to be disappointed and have to wait. The 100km drive took us 5 hours. As the mountain road was muddy and dangerous, the delegation had to take heavy trucks in to reach the people of Phú Mỡ. Tu Bi distributed 300 gifts for poor people and 306 shirts for students of Phú Mỡ primary school. As parents ourselves, w couln’t ignore when we see the students in this difficult situation.
A group of middle school students must swim the river twice a day just to get to school in recent days.
The incident happened at an ethnic minority school Đinh Núp in Phú Mỡ commune, Đồng Xuân district, Phú Yên province. Tuổi Trẻ (Youth) Newspaper posted some pictures taken by teacher Đặng Ngọc Thành of Đinh Núp school on Tuesday afternoon, September 20 after school. The ethnic minority pupils in Phú Lợi village swim by themselves, or cling to “floats”, which are hollow plastic containers, or carried on their back by the father on a river about 15 meters wide.
