A six-year-old blind boy has a new 64-square metre home in Phu Tho Province, thanks to the generosity of DTiNews readers in the Urkraine.
The new house for the boy
The readers, in Odessa, donated VND84.5m (USD4.000) to buid the house.
Vu Huy Thiep, who was born without pupils, said the house was a dream come true.
His mother Tran Thi Ngat said she never imagined her family could live in such a house.
Present at the handover ceremony were Nguyen Ngoc Anh and Trinh Le Ha, representatives of the Vietnamese community in Odessa. Anh and Ha said they want to keep working with DTiNews to help the disadvantaged in Vietnam.
Little boy Vu Huy Thiep
Thiep’s family have been helped by many other DTiNews readers, too, and he will now be able commence school in August 2015 with his friends.
He and his parents and younger brother lived in a tent in Dong Luong Commune, Cam Khe District, but in spite of his blindness he worked hard to help with such chores as cooking, cleaning and washing clothes.
