The building and the opening of a school always mean that steps are being taken towards liberty and democracy.’

André SAINT-GEORGES
vice-president of ANAPI,
former chief inspector of schools

 

The church school is located 100 kms north west of Hanoi. It has 7 primary education classes and 7 secondary education classes.

In 1995 Sister Germaine NGUYEN of Notre Dame des Missions in Lyon asked for two big schools to be built in Duba, and 100 kms north of Hanoi and west of Vietri, where so many Vietminh prisoners where freed between 1952 and 1954.

The region is entirely catholic and was therefore left aside by the communist regime as early as 1954.

ANAPI had two schools built there. A primary school with 7 forms and a secondary school with 7 forms. The school is the biggest one on the whole region. It is headed by an abbot who has since then become the mayor of this big city. The school is staffed with a very reliable team of teachers; It is attended by 1200 to 1400 children per day. The children are divided into three groups : each one of them attends a three hour class of general studies and a one hour class of religious teaching.