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The right to education is a fundamental human right; everyone is entitled to have access to education. However, we know that there can exist numerous obstacles for the full realization of this right, especially for those who are in a disadvantaged and vulnerable situation. This is the case for ethnic minority children in Viet Nam, for while significant progress has been made in providing access to education among ethnic minority children over the last decade, more than 13% of the lower secondary school-aged ethnic minority children (14.3% for male and 12.3% for female) and almost 46% of the upper secondary school-aged ethnic minority children (48.4% for male and 43.1% for female) remained out of school in 2019, according to a survey report on the socio-economic status of 53 ethnic minority groups published by the Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs and General Statistics Office in 2020.
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It is within this population that poverty is concentrated in the country, a combination of a number of socio-economic factors compounded by the challenging geography of the remote areas where the some of the poorest communities are found. In such place, many children need to wake up very early in the morning and walk a long distance to reach school on time, raising concerns about their safety of children on the way between home and school. InÌýsome cases, they must cope with limited access to electricity and poor lighting at home and in boarding facilities that affects their learning performance.ÌýÌý