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DTiNews readers have raised more than VND68m for a single mother and her 14-year-old daughter in Bac Giang Province to help them in their battle with congenital heart disease.

Crowds of Vietnamese people in Singapore gathered at a fund-raising gala dinner to donate to the Orchid Scholarship Fund reserved for outstanding Vietnamese children in need.

Two sisters in Ben Tre Province are trying to find work to help support their ill father and their mother, who is suffering from chronic kidney failure and cirrhosis.

The Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/dioxin (VAVA) received US$10,000 donated by Maggie Brooks, a Swiss national living in Costa Rica, and her friends at a ceremony in Hanoi on July 18.

A convalescent home was inaugurated in the Thach That district of Hanoi on July 17 to provide residential care for Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victims.

South Africa's Hanoi Embassy marked the birthday of the late President Nelson Mandela on July 18 with gifts to the people of Vietnam.

A young woman in Hanoi is losing her fight against lupus because her family has run out of money for her medical treatment.

A beef noodle stall on O Cho Dua Street in Hanoi is offering cheap meals to low income earners.

The HCM City People's Committee has rejected a petition by local authorities in a district to allow an unlicensed private children's shelter to obtain a licence and continue functioning.

A single mother and her child in Bac Giang Province are running out of hope as they lose their fight against congenital heart disease.

The National Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT) introduced the “Red Journey 2015” blood donation campaign on July 3 in Ho Chi Minh City.

A H'Mong couple in Dien Bien Province is struggling to keep their four-year-old boy alive after they waited too long to take him to hospital.

The HCM City Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin on July 1 held a ground-breaking ceremony for a centre known as AO village to care for and provide vocational training and rehabilitation for AO/Dioxin victims.

A family in Thanh Hoa Province already plagued by ill-health has been dealt a last blow as the crops on which they rely for survival have failed.

A young girl with a rare inherited tissue disease is virtually alone, her father having left and her mother suffering mental illness, with only her grandmother left to watch over her.

A family in Nghe An Province is in need of help, a son who has lost an eye to retinal cancer, his father sick, and his grandfather suffering from cancer due to exposure to the dioxin, Agent Orange.

A man in Soc Trang Province, battling two illnesses, sells lottery tickets to support his family, but is fighting a losing battle against hunger and feels he has failed to provide for them.

An 8-month-old girl is facing death because her family is unable to borrow enough to pay for the surgery that might save her.

Three dilapidated classrooms in mountainous Lai Chau Province have been rebuilt with the help of DTiNews readers.