COMMUNITY

Hundreds of students in Ben Tre Province are hoping for a better bridge to replace the old makeshift one which has been the cause for a number of accidents.

A programme launched by the National Fund for Vietnamese Children in 1997 has so far helped treat nearly 20,000 kids with cleft lip and palate, helping them better integrate into society.

DTiNews readers have sent nearly VND80 million (USD3,800) to support three small children Ha Tinh Province who have lost their mother.

A poor family in Hanoi is in desperate need of help as all the members have fallen ill.

The life of a six-year-old boy in HCM City is being threatened with tetanus caused by a traffic accident, but his parents cannot do anything to save him due to their poverty.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) will continue to support disadvantaged children in the central province of Ninh Thuan, UNICEF Vietnam Representative Lotta Sylwander said while visiting the province on February 13.

An annual blood donation festival in Hanoi on February 16 is expected to attract around 10,000 volunteer donors and bank a minimum of 7,000 units of blood.

An old couple in Thai Binh Province have been struggling to feed and clothe their grandson who suffers from a disability and has been abandoned by his parents.

Deputy PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc on February 10 received Rudolf Walther, president of Batschka Foundation, who is on a visit to kick-start Batschka-funded charity projects in Vietnam.

A young woman in Can Tho City has lost nearly 40kg in a few months and now weighs only 20kg due to a strange disease, but her parents are powerless to save her.

A five-month old boy from Hai Duong Province was born with deformities in his upper jaw and sex genitals, but his parents cannot afford treatment.

A 73-year old woman in Thanh Hoa Province is silently working to earn money to feed her 46-year old daughter, who is blind and has a coronary artery obstruction.

When the volunteers of Hope Club started selling vegetarian meals for 5,000 VND, they could barely keep up with demand. Can the cheap food convince other students to abandon meat?

A lonely man in HCM City has a face full of small, dense tumours faces the risk of going blind and blind and is calling for the community’s help.

A family in Thai Binh Province is in need of help, with both of the parents ill, leaving an old grandmother to take care of two children.

A man who suffers from epilepsy and has lived in house in poor condition for many years has a very simple dream: to eat a full meal.

Chapters of the Vietnam Journalists Association across the country have presented gifts worth over 81 billion VND (3.8 million USD) to social welfare beneficiaries, poor people and those from ethnic minority groups in 2013.

A poor family in central province of Ha Tinh is struggling to earn a living and bring up a 13-month-old baby who suffers from heart disease, pneumonia and down syndrome.

DTiNews, along with several other organisations, has sent donations to poor people in many regions to help them have a better Tet holiday.