Close-up of devastated schools after floods, education sector faces difficulties before new school year
TPO - Flash floods caused My Ly 2 Primary Boarding School to be inundated with mud, many classrooms collapsed, and property inside was severely damaged. Nghe An's education sector is facing difficulties ahead of the new school year.
Báo Tiền Phong•10/08/2025
Video of My Ly 2 Boarding School for Ethnic Minorities (My Ly Commune, Nghe An) devastated after historic flood. More than 10 days after the historic flood, My Ly 2 Primary Boarding School for Ethnic Minorities (located in Xang Tren village, My Ly commune, Nghe An province) is still devastated.
Mr. Tran Sy Ha - Principal of My Ly 2 Primary Boarding School for Ethnic Minorities said that the school has 5 campuses with 202 students. The 4 separate campuses scattered in the villages are not significantly affected. However, the main campus of the school with 168 students studying, 89 of whom are boarding students, was completely damaged after the flood.
Before the flood, the school mobilized teachers to move furniture, assets, and books to the second floor of the school. However, the flood water swept away rocks and soil, flooding the entire second floor of the school. “The water has never flooded up to the second floor, so I thought it would be safe to put my things there. But this flood was so terrible that all the property inside was submerged and damaged. On the second floor, the mud was 1-2 meters thick,” Mr. Ha said sadly.
3-4m thick layer of mud outside the houses and inside the classrooms.
All assets and teaching aids such as televisions, printers, computers, tables and chairs, books, blankets, beds, wardrobes... were swept away and damaged.
All that remained was rubble.
“All 12 televisions, 5 refrigerators, 5 printers, 22 computers for teaching. Then all the desks and chairs of 7 classrooms; 1.7 tons of rice reserved for boarding students. In addition, the books, personal belongings of the students and even the blankets, beds and wardrobes of the boarding teachers were all swept away and damaged by the flood,” said Mr. Tran Sy Ha.
From the gate to the school yard, the school's functional buildings are all submerged in mud and trees.
A large tree was swept away by floodwaters and got stuck in the stairs of the second floor of the school.
Over the past few days, authorities, soldiers, police, local authorities and residents have come to help the school clean up and overcome the consequences. However, the amount of mud and dirt is so large that it is expected to take a long time to bring the school back to its original state.
Many classrooms have collapsed and cracked, no longer ensuring teaching and learning. "We earnestly call on benefactors, organizations, and individuals to join hands to help My Ly 2 Primary Boarding School for Ethnic Minorities so that teachers and students can return to teaching and learning soon. Every share, whether it is a book, a set of tables and chairs, a warm blanket, a kilo of rice... is a great source of encouragement, a flame that rekindles faith and hope for the students here," Mr. Ha wrote in a letter of appeal.
Flash floods caused the elementary school to be deeply submerged, many students' books were damaged.
Devastation after flash flood in mountainous commune of Nghe An
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