Amid the vast mountains of the highlands, simple classrooms still echo with the sound of students reading aloud. Under the early summer sunshine, Hmong and Ha Nhi ethnic minority students study attentively, continuing a story of perseverance and a desire for change through education.

In the border commune of Muong Nhe (Dien Bien), where many students first hold a book only upon entering Grade 1, Tran Van Tho Semi-Boarding Primary School for Ethnic Minority Students is quietly cultivating a reading culture, helping books become the shortest path for highland children to access knowledge.

Amid the many challenges of the highlands in Dien Bien, Sinh Phinh Semi-Boarding Primary and Lower Secondary Ethnic School has continued to uphold national standards, gradually improving education quality, keeping students in school, and laying a foundation for sustainable development in this particularly disadvantaged area.

Not merely beneficiaries of poverty reduction policies, farmers in Muong Tung Commune (Dien Bien Province) have increasingly become pioneering actors in the local fight against hunger and poverty.