COMMUNITY

For 10 years, the Club of Retired Teachers in Sa Đéc City in the Mekong province of Đồng Tháp has looked after their own. Determined to prevent fellow teachers from falling into poverty, in 2007 the club members began

Some 348 families have been reunited with their relatives over the past 30 years under the Reestablishment of Family Links programme in HCM City.

The Canadian ambassador to Vietnam Ping Kitnikone and various celebrities will join in a charity run to raise fund for poor children in Hanoi on December 11.

A couple in Quang Ngai Province are calling for financial support to help treat their 12-year-old son with leukaemia.

The International Choir and Orchestra of HCM City will perform traditional Christmas carols at a charity concert called “Star of Bethlehem” on December 2 and 3.

An elderly couple in Ha Nam Province is in need of financial support to help treat their eight-year-old granddaughter after her mother died and father left her.

Malaysian student Benjamin Tan was injured and so exhausted at one point of the race that he was just limping around the running track - but he knew he could not give up.

A family in Ha Tinh Province is calling for financial support to save their small son who is suffering from heart defect.

The annual charity race Run for the Heart 2016 will be held on December 3 at LePARC commercial centre in Yen So park in Hanoi’s Hoang Mai district.

A mother in Nam Dinh Province has said she would put her kidney up for sale to raise fund to help her two-year-old daughter who is deaf to hear again.

An elderly man in Danang City collects clothes for the poor.

DTiNews' readers have helped build a house for a 9-year-old girl living with her grandparents in Thanh Hoa Province.

A father in Yen Bai Province is in need of help to treat his son who is suffering from thalassemia after losing three other sons.

A 14-year-old girl in Ha Tinh Province who is suffering from lupus erythematosus and staying alone at hospital is in need of help as her family can't afford the treatment.

The United Nations Children’s Fund and the Vietnam Red Cross Society have signed a co-operation agreement to implement a project on clean water and sanitation for children and families affected by drought and salt intrusion in Vietnam.

Vietnamese communities in many countries across the world have made donations to help people in central provinces who suffered from flooding caused by prolonged downpours in the past month.

A young shoe-shiner in HCM City has become well known among local poor people thanks to his free service.

DTiNews readers have donated nearly VND100m (USD4,500) to a widow in Bac Ninh Province who is in need of help to treat her heart disease and raise her children.

Children with congenital heart diseases will be offered free health checks and surgery under a programme launched by the Hospital of Ho Chi Minh City Medicine and the Pharmacy University and two US charity organisations, Gift of Life and