A poor widow from Quang Ngai Province is in desperate need of financial support to treat cancer after her husband died earlier this year on a fishing expedition near Hoang Sa Island.
Representatives from 35 associations for people with disabilities, as well as authorised agencies, shared their experience in developing effective models to support disabled people during a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on June 13.
A three-day conference opened in Thai Nguyen province to discuss approaches and solutions to poverty reduction amongst ethnic minority groups in northern Vietnam.
Overseas Vietnamese (OVs) in Poland on June 3 donated VND300 million to the Vietnam Coast Guard and Fisheries Resource Surveillance Forces who are protecting national sovereignty in the East Sea.
The Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange and Dioxin (VAVA) on May 16 received nearly 12 billion VND (571,400 USD) from donors to help construct a centre for the social protection of the victims.