A mother in Hanoi’s outlying district of Dan Phuong is in desperate need of help for her two daughters, who have cerebral palsy, are in paid and are entirely dependent on others for their care.
A five-year-old girl in Nghe An Province suffers an ostracizing disease, her body covered with black spots and hair that scares her classmates and worries her parents because she suffers seizures.
Three children, the youngest aged five, in central Ha Tinh Province are trying to support themselves and their elderly grandmother since the death of their parents, but it is an uphill battle.
The 7th edition of the charity concert “Nhung Trai Tim Dong Cam” (Sympathy Hearts) took place at the Hanoi Opera House on May 30, with the aim of raising funds for children with disabilities.
The National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVC) has carried out diverse activities with a total funding of nearly VND15 billion to help disadvantaged children from every corner of the country.
Nguyen Thi Cam is now in distress, her husband, Nguyen Khac Mau, suffering mental illness, their youngest son disabled by a brain-damaging fever when he was just six months old, and she herself sick.
A woman in the northern city of Haiphong is calling for community help to save her six-year old daughter, who is facing death from congenital heart failure.
A woman in Hai Duong Province is struggling to hold her family together, with a sick husband and son, an ill father-in-law, and the loss of her mother-in-law who killed herself because of the pain of stomach cancer.
A woman in Ha Nam Province is asking doctors to let her husband, who is suffering from severe oil burns, return home despite the danger of infection because they have run out of money to pay the mounting bills.
A family in An Giang Province is collapsing around three children, abandoned by their father and with their mother in a coma after a road accident two weeks ago.
A family in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau is struggling against discrimination after the father died of AIDS and the mother, who has HIV, tries to find work to feed her children.