YSEALI Seeds for the Future Grant eTOWN ACADEMY

PROBLEM STATEMENT
Ninh Giang is an under-deveoped and far-flung district of Hai Duong, a northern province in Vietnam. Due to the long distance to the urban city, local people
face huge difficulties in accessing quality education, especially English education and personal development trainings. Apart from academic classes at school,
students do NOT have any single opportunity to take part in extra-curricular activities or capacity building programs. Therefore, people’s awareness of career
development and economic growth is severely limited. Industrial, trading and service sectors are not common in town. People have a tendency to follow their
ancestors’ steps to work in agricutural sector or as factoriy workers, resulting in relatively low living standards, which then prevent them from approaching
quality education. It is extremely hard to break out from this poverty cycle.

I am 21, born in a small village in Ninh Giang, but I have been spending nearly half of my life living far from home, away from my family, for what? For better
education! (Sometimes I wonder whether it is the reason why the relationships with my family members are that troubled and stormy.) There is a large gap
in terms of development opportunities among youth in the city and rural areas. And we are greatly suffering from it.

Thinking systematically, not only does it lead to a lack of quality education, but also prevent the local economy from growing and have negative effects on
migration and family cohesion. Better education now seems to be the only feasible measure to address the unsolved problem. eTOWN, the very first
private institute in the region, was founded.

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OBJECTIVES
 To deliver English courses to enhance linguistic ability, to prepare students well for their university entrance exams, also for future job
requirements
 To provide personal development programs to break people’s life-long false mindsets, to imropve their awareness and capacity
 To found a youth club to establish a platform for youth to upgrade their skills, to get inspired to sustainably spread out our message “Learn to
change”

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ACTIVITIES, TIMELINE AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES

To address the problem of lacking quality education, we lauched eTOWN, a private institute with major strategies:
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Activities Timeline Expected outcomes

English courses for primary students - March to May - 2 three-month-courses launched

Objectives: - June to August with 20 students per class
- To provide students with access to innovative - 100% Students improve their
teaching methods and qualified learning materials English pronunciation and
- To help them gain first knowledge about English and vocabulary, 60 of them are able to
get inspired for further academic achievements have basic dialogues in English.

English course for high school student to prepare - March to June - 1 four-month-course with 30
them for University entrance exam students
Objectives: - 100% Students improve their
- To prepare high school students with English ability English by 50% and 30% students
to successfully undertake the English test in university improve by 70% using placement
entrance exam test and post-project test).
English courses - 80% Students can answer
(online and offline classes) correctly 70% of questions in the
exam.

IELTS courses for seconday and high school students - June to July - 2 courses with 15 students per
Objectives: - August to October class
- To provide students with general English in four - 100% Students get to know about
skills, especially Listening and Speaking, which have IELTS and learn basic skills needed
not been a focus in English teaching in the area for IELTS.
- To help students have essential linguistic ability to - 100% students obtain IELTS 4.0
move on personal development training courses and 50% students obtainat least
- To help students meet the requirements to apply for IELTS 6.5.
special extra-curricular activities and studying abroad
opportunities
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Personal development programs
Youth Leadership Club
(A club for local students, with
core team members leading the
club by themselves, eTOWN’s
leaders acting as mentors)
Media
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Training courses about Self-awareness, Collaboration, - September to - 8 classes in total with 30 students
Critical thinking, Problem solving, Communication October, once every per class
Objectives: month - 75% students are satisfactory
- To prepare youth with survival skills of 21st century, with the training.
claimed by World Economic Forum (which are never - 75% students claim that they
taught or mentioned at local schools), for future improve their skill set after taking
education and career part in the training.
- To help them build confidence and skills to actively
take lead in their community
Championship competition about general knowledge, - October - 1 competition with 30
English language and debate skills competitors from primary to high
Objectives: school students
- To establish a playground in which students have - 60% competitors are satisfied
chances to challenge themselves and unlock their with the experiences.
potentials
Mentorship and financial support for core team - September to - 1 youth club with at least 15 high
members to help them organize activities for club October (after the school students
members by themselves students have lessons - The club can organize monthly
Objectives: and training in event with participants’
- To establish a platform in which students can have personal development satisfaction of over 60%.
first experience in doing voluntary and social works. programs) - The club can sustain after the
- To encourage students to take on the role of leaders project ends for 2 years.
in their community
Facebook Fanpage boost, advertisements, campaigns - February to October - an increase in the number of
Objectives: fanpage followers by 500%
- To create a user-friendly platform to share - an increase in overall reach by
knowledge about targeted topics and information 300%
about project’s activities
Website launching - February to October - 500 people visit the website every
Objectives: month on avarage
- To create an official site for students and parents to - 50 people leave personal
look for information about courses information for further contact
- To establish a line for contacting and registering