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Many students who graduate from middle schools for orphans under the paternal care of the Workers’ Party of Korea enter the universities and colleges to continue their study.

Though their homes move from the schools to the dormitories of universities or colleges, the Party continues to take care of their life.

The country took a measure to set up the units in charge of the supply of materials for the life of university and college students who graduated from middle schools for orphans. They are the materials supply stations for university students.

They specialize in the supply of everything needed for such students, namely foodstuffs, school things and daily necessities.

As to this, Kim Son Yong, director of the Pyongyang municipal materials supply station for university students, said:

“Thanks to the state’s supply system, students who study at universities and colleges after graduating from middle schools for orphans receive a variety of foodstuffs on their birthdays as well as various kinds of daily necessities and school things during their university days, but most of them do not know the fact that there are units specializing in looking after their life. Whether they know it or not, however, the state policy for parentless students has continued to be enforced invariably until today.”

Dozens of kinds of daily necessities are supplied to those students and, frankly speaking, she, a mother, does not care for her child so meticulously, she added.

Five years ago, when they heard a news that Jong Yu Gyong, a graduate of Pyongyang Middle School for Orphans, volunteered as a teacher at Kwangmyongsong Primary School in the city of Samjiyon at the northern end of the country after graduating from Pyongyang Teachers Training College, officials and employees of the supply station visited the college with padded clothes, an overcoat, office supplies and many other materials for her.

Yu Gyong came to know that day that those people were employees of the Pyongyang municipal materials supply station for university students and all the benefits she had received continuously during her college years were provided under the care of the Party and according to the policy of the state.

At that time, she realized belatedly that the meticulous care of the motherly Party reached every corner of her life and growth even after she left Pyongyang Middle School for Orphans she and her fellows call a home of happiness and offered her grateful thanks to the visitors, she recalled.

“I feel great pride in my job whenever I see parentless children who grew into pillars of the country. I will work harder to make the love of the Party fully reach them,” said director Kim Son Yong.