A ceremony has been held in the central province of Thua Thien – Hue to transfer the centre for child protection Thuy Xuan in Hue city to the system of SOS Children’s Villages in Vietnam.
Two seriously ill poor children in Nghe An Province have received more than VND358m (USD17,000) in donations from DTiNews readers to help with their treatment.
A delegation of more than 40 professors and doctors from the Japanese Cleft Lip and Palate Association is offering free surgeries to 60 children with cleft lip and palate deformities in the northern province of Ben Tre.
Doctors and patients at Cho Ray Hospital in HCM City have called for tighter controls over charity groups that provide food to poor patients after an incident in which rotten meals were served.
A seriously ill little brother and a father with cancer has forced a woman from a poor faming family in Thanh Hoa Province to abandon her medical studies to care for them.
Many programmes to assist disadvantaged students and workers in large cities and provinces have been organised for the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday which falls on February 19.
A New York-based corporation, Streets international (STREETS) has organized a gala to raise funds for Vietnamese poor children, which is set for December 4 at the five-star Sofitel Hotel in Vietnam.