France Offers Human Rights Award to Hoa Sua Training Restaurant School

The French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin will grant Human Rights Award of the French Republic 2005 to the Hoa Sua Training Restaurant School for its assistance to impoverished students. On this occasion, the school will deserve a reward worth EURO 15,000 (US$17,619), which will be all dedicated to its projects.

 

The Human Rights Award of the French Republic, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" will annually be presented to five institutions by the National Consultant Committee on Human Rights, recognising and encouraging individuals and organisations whose work is dedicated to protecting and promoting the rights of others in the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 2005, the award aims at penalty and execution cases and campaigns against child labor abuse.

 

The Hoa Sua Training Restaurant School is among five awardees this year. Established in 1994, the school often gives free-of-charge training courses to the Vietnamese impoverished and handicapped young people, who are later sent to the school's restaurants, hotels, bakeries, and tailoring and embroidery shops.

 

The school has to date benefited from both financial and technical assistances given by the French organizations such as the Embassy of France, the Catholic Committee Against Hunger and for Development, Indre et Loire Handicraft Training Department, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Versailles, and the French Association of Volunteers for Progress.