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 school

 

 

It is a school of eight classes that was inaugurated in March 2003.

On March 22 1999 Jack BONFILS was in Hanoi. He met with the French ambassador and with thirty or so Vietnamese guests their wives and children of two generations. The Vietnamese were survivors of the Caobang partisan battalion whose commander, Lieutenant VILTARD went missing during the turmoil in October 1950.

It was possible to resume relations with them again. They all came from the former RC 4 between That-Khe and Dong-Khe, and had spent twenty to thirty years in re-education camps. Children had to walk over twenty kms a day to go to school in That-Khe because there was no school in Dong-Khe.

This exceptional building was put up under the authority of the mayor. The school was inaugurated in March 2003.