SHTP donates English study aids to school

The Saigon High-Tech Park (SHTP) on Monday donated English study aids to Long Thanh My Elementary Schools in District 9.

It included about 500 books, CDs, games and posters for English study.

Long Thanh My School will use the donation to hold English story telling contests, karaoke singing in English, creative club and English film screenings.

The donation was a SHTP social activity under this year’s “For a developed and happy community” program, to assist education of local students and to mark the park’s eighth anniversary on October 24.

Hotel Equatorial brings joy to kids and oldies

On the occasion of Mid-Autumn Festival, the Hotel Equatorial HCMC on Monday visited homeless old people and children at Thanh Loc Center in HCMC’s District 12.

The hotel team together with the hotel’s ambassadors, supermodel Ha Anh and actor Chi Bao, brought food, moon cakes and lanterns to organize a warm Mid-Autumn Festival for the elderly and children there. Established since 2006, the center is home to 279 disabled old people and 63 disabled children from 3 to 18 years old.

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Kids paint for a happy Mid Autumn at Hotel Equatorial

A girl admires her friends’ paintings at the exhibition that opened at the Equatorial Hotel HCMC on Tuesday - Photo: Kieu Giang

A painting exhibition with a difference named Young Painter 2010 organized by the Hotel Equatorial HCMC features artistic expressions by disabled and street children.

“We firmly believe that such an event only helps to bring out best artistic abilities of children who have gone through un-imaginable difficulties in their lives,” James Montenegro, the hotel’s general manager said.

“As this is the 13th year that the hotel has hosted this event it has already become a tradition for us,” Montenego added.

The exhibition introduces 100 colorful paintings depicting joyful moments of children in the Mid-Autumn festival and paintings of landscapes and still-lifes.

They were created by street children from the HCMC Center for Education and Vocational Training for Street Children and disabled children from Anh Minh and Hy Vong 1 School for Deaf Children, Gia Dinh Disabled Children and Thai Binh High School.

Visitors at the exhibition on Tuesaday morning said they were amazed to see how beautiful some of the paintings were.

Montenegro said all the money raised from the sale of the paintings would go to help disadvantaged children in HCMC.

All of the paintings are priced from US$40 to US$50.

To share with disabled and street children a happy Mid-Autumn festival, the Hotel Equatorial HCMC together with celebrities including actor Chi Bao, singer Hien Thuc and model Trung Cuong handed over 100 gifts of candy, moon cakes and lanterns to the schools that had contributed the paintings.

The exhibition is on display at the hotel lobby at 242 Tran Binh Trong Street, HCMC’s District 5 until September 30.

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Kids paint for a happy Mid Autumn at Hotel Equatorial

A girl admires her friends’ paintings at the exhibition that opened at the Equatorial Hotel HCMC on Tuesday - Photo: Kieu Giang

A painting exhibition with a difference named Young Painter 2010 organized by the Hotel Equatorial HCMC features artistic expressions by disabled and street children.

“We firmly believe that such an event only helps to bring out best artistic abilities of children who have gone through un-imaginable difficulties in their lives,” James Montenegro, the hotel’s general manager said.

“As this is the 13th year that the hotel has hosted this event it has already become a tradition for us,” Montenego added.

The exhibition introduces 100 colorful paintings depicting joyful moments of children in the Mid-Autumn festival and paintings of landscapes and still-lifes.

They were created by street children from the HCMC Center for Education and Vocational Training for Street Children and disabled children from Anh Minh and Hy Vong 1 School for Deaf Children, Gia Dinh Disabled Children and Thai Binh High School.

Visitors at the exhibition on Tuesaday morning said they were amazed to see how beautiful some of the paintings were.

Montenegro said all the money raised from the sale of the paintings would go to help disadvantaged children in HCMC.

All of the paintings are priced from US$40 to US$50.

To share with disabled and street children a happy Mid-Autumn festival, the Hotel Equatorial HCMC together with celebrities including actor Chi Bao, singer Hien Thuc and model Trung Cuong handed over 100 gifts of candy, moon cakes and lanterns to the schools that had contributed the paintings.

The exhibition is on display at the hotel lobby at 242 Tran Binh Trong Street, HCMC’s District 5 until September 30.

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