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 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.
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.