A New Elementary School in Phu Nhuan to Help the Cham Population Improve Their New Life
A photo-panel sheet (code SP-2068) reports that an elementary school in Phu Nhuan, an entirely Cham hamlet in An-Phuoc district, Ninh-Thuan, was completed with local government help and Korean engineers. Photographs show the school, a ribbon-cutting by a Korean general and a Vietnamese lieutenant colonel, Cham children in costume dancing at the ceremony, and children on playground equipment. An allied military unit is presented as a direct source of benefits to an ethnic minority community.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, for the Republic of Vietnam and allied (Republic of Korea) forces' civic-action programme
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Race and ethnicity
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Psychological Warfare Posters, Vietnam War (NAID 561393), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, for the Republic of Vietnam and allied (Republic of Korea) forces' civic-action programme. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-7-2068.
Text on the object
HOÀN THÀNH TRƯỜNG SƠ-CẤP PHÚ-NHUẬN GIÚP ĐỒNG BÀO CHÀM CẢI THIỆN ĐỜI MỚI Trong những chương trình kiến thiết xây dựng nông thôn khắp miền Nam Việt Nam, quân đội đồng minh đã trực tiếp giúp đỡ đồng bào thực hiện nhiều công tác đem lại lợi ích thiết thực cho dân chúng. Trường sơ-cấp ấp Phú-Nhuận, một ấp hoàn toàn người Chàm thuộc quận An-Phước, Ninh-Thuận, được hoàn thành với sự trợ giúp của chánh quyền địa phương và công binh Đại-Hàn. Trường sơ cấp. Tướng Đại-Hàn Lee-So-Dong và Trung-Tá Kha-Vạng-Huy khánh thành trường sơ-cấp Phú-Nhuận. Trong buổi lễ, các thiếu nhi Chàm trình diễn vũ điệu. Trường sơ cấp Phú-Nhuận được phái đoàn Dân-Quân-Chính khánh thành. Trẻ em học sinh đang vui chơi tại sân trường. [banner:] 학교준공식축 / MỪNG LỄ KHÁNH THÀNH SP-2068 [sign on school:] TRƯỜNG SƠ-CẤP PHÚ-NHUẬN
COMPLETION OF PHU-NHUAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HELPS THE CHAM PEOPLE IMPROVE THEIR NEW LIFE In the rural construction programmes throughout South Vietnam, allied armies have directly helped the people carry out many tasks that bring real benefit to the public. The Phu-Nhuan hamlet elementary school, a hamlet entirely of Cham people in An-Phuoc district, Ninh-Thuan, was completed with the help of the local authorities and Korean engineers. The elementary school. Korean General Lee-So-Dong and Lieutenant Colonel Kha-Vang-Huy inaugurate Phu-Nhuan elementary school. At the ceremony, Cham children perform a dance. Phu-Nhuan elementary school was inaugurated by a civil-military-government delegation. School children happily playing in the schoolyard. [banner:] [Korean: school completion ceremony celebration] / CONGRATULATIONS ON THE INAUGURATION SP-2068 [sign on school:] PHU-NHUAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
