Thi Yen pan (SN 1990, Ngu Xa village, Nam Chien commune, Bat Xat district, Lao Cai) is the Dao Tuyen ethnic group.She was born and raised in the majority of the school's work.However, with the desire to use knowledge to change his life, the desire to use the word to escape poverty, the pan of Thi Yen has tried to overcome the prejudice and win a full scholarship to study for a master's degree at Gottingen University (Virtue).9X girl has become an ideal model that many young ethnic minority people are aiming for and learning.
Currently, Thi Yen pan is the owner of a homestay in Sapa and a member of a Dutch development organization.Besides, Yen is also building and developing content on the Tiktok platform, bringing interesting stories about the Dao community.
From the little girl buffalo studies outside the classroom ...
Since the age of 4, the pan of Thi Yen has started to study in grade 1 and 14 years old, completing the grassroots level.This has shown her outstanding learning talent and thinking compared to her peers.
However, at the time Yen graduated from secondary school, the area she lived in a serious crop failure, white rice for farming families was almost luxurious.
The poverty, the hunger kept haunting in the minds of the people so going to school is something illusory.Not from the time before, the tradition where she was born always had prejudices:"Girls who study a lot is filial, have to work hard at home, earn food" so her parents decided not to let her go to school higher and at home to help raise animals, plowing hoes.This led to the consequences, Yen's study was interrupted for a period of 3 years.
"Initially, when the study that I always loved my parents forbidden, I cried for many days and often made excuses to approach the school area. The days were assigned by my parents for the task of buffalo, buffalo,I often deliberately released the buffalo towards the school gate., Yen recalled.
For 3 years, the love of knowledge keeps growing up day by day and the hope of going to class has never slept in the mind of the "shepherd".However, because of difficult family conditions, Yen never dared to say the will in her heart to her parents.
The predestined relationship to bring her back to the knowledge journey is to reunite with Mr. Bui Chi Thanh (Principal of Nam Chien Secondary School).As soon as she met, the first question Yen received from her former teacher was "Does Yen still want to go to school?".
No need to think, the little girl immediately answered "yes".Understanding the determination of the students, the teacher kept going to the house of Thi Yen to persuade her parents to return to school.
Finally, through the enthusiastic help of the former homeroom teacher, Thi Yen pan has officially returned to school.
... Go to Master to receive a full scholarship in Germany
Initially, the pan of Thi Yen was merely a lover of studying, loving writing and numbers but since meeting the old homeroom teacher, Yen has gradually been aware of the fact that she has to learn to changelife.
She recalled:"During the time I quit school, the teacher also often went to the house to meet me and encouraged that, if not going to school, it would not be able to escape poverty forever, life would only be around the work.Shallow. In the end, there is no help for family life.
Thanks to these words, thinking about my studies has changed.I already know my true dream is to escape poverty by studying.But it is undeniable that the prejudices of society at that time also affected my direction a lot.
During the period of 2007-2008, I was 17 years old and started high school. At that time, the number of families for my children to go to the high school program was very rareGrade 12 will go to work. ''
But thanks to a saying of her peers, she was determined to become the first person in the commune to go to college.
Thi Yen pan said:"On the day of the school chair, I was reminded as a class president. Every time you were noisy, I often shouted for you to keep order. But I remember it once, when I loudly, they guys loudHaving shouted to me, the class president should not be proud of being poor and good at studying, wondering why studying well but still poor.
That sentence made me cry for days.Since then I decided to go to college.I even declared straight to my friends, I will become the first in the commune to do that. "
Finally, luckily smiled at the pan of Thi Yen, the Dao Tuyen girl passed into the Vietnam Forestry University.
In particular, throughout the journey to conquer the knowledge of Thi Yen pan, there are always the arising factors that make her also feel surprised about how her life operates.
In the last year of college, seeing the superior ability of Yen, the lecturer introduced her to a study abroad program in the US but she missed the opportunity because the papers were faulty.
Not long the first opportunity, Thi Yen pan was once again introduced to a Japanese government scholarship program.However, in the medical examination round, Yen was listed on the list that was not eligible, so the dream of studying abroad had to be put aside.
It was not until graduation that Yen found the opportunity to really belong to himself when he received a master's master's scholarship to manage the sustainable forest resource of Gottingen University (Germany) within two years worth 47,000.EURO (nearly 1.2 billion).
Do not choose the place to be born, but choose the attitude of life!
Sharing with PV, Yen said that good study has really brought her a lot of benefits.The first benefit that can be seen is to change the thoughts of the surrounding people about learning.
"I remember the day when I went to school, my family members went to work so no one took me to the bus station.The reason and determined not to help me., my family has made rice and invites everyone to eat., Yen confided.
Not only that, the fact that Yen Hoc Thanh Tai's pan has a positive impact on the way of raising children of households living next to her house.Currently, those families have all sent their children to school.
At different times, the living thinking of the Thi Yen pan also began to have different changes.
"In the past, I was very afraid to let people know that I was ethnic minorities but after experiencing a lot of ups and downs of life as well as studying abroad with my limited vision, I felt proud.About that. It is true that we do not have the right to choose where we are born but we have the right to choose the attitude to face the problems that occur in life ",Pan Thi Yen confided.
Especially, from the days when in Germany, the pan of Thi Yen always cooked the intention to set up a scholarship fund to help studious students in the mountainous areas to go to school.But when returning home, understanding the process of establishing the fund is not easy, so this plan is still open.Instead, she only supports the children of school supplies, directly teaching in their free time as a way to help children find their own paths.
In 2020, Thi Yen pan published a book about the journey to overcome the prejudice to conquer the path of education, changing its own fate called the opposite road - from the Dao village to the Erasmus scholarship.She is known by many young people through her first work and is called by many people with the name "inspirational character".
Before that name, Yen said, pressure is inevitable, but if she was selected, she still shared her own story to create a motivation for young people of the ethnic minority community inhighland.
In the coming time, Thi Yen pan will accompany the people where she lives to find the direction of economic development with everyone.
"The people here are mostly campaigning to see whatever they sell, they will compete to plant and harvest. Then until the supply exceeds the demand, their lives are in difficulties.What to do to make our lives improve., Yen shared.