COMMUNITY

An eight-year old boy from the northern province of Thai Nguyen was born with a facial deformity.

A poor ill woman from Kien Giang Province is in need of treating a tumour on her leg so as to work to support a blind son and four abandoned grandchildren.

Vietnam is striving to perfect its laws and policies to foster the rights of disabled people and plans to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2014.

A woman in Hanoi abandoned by her family at the hospital and has no money for medical treatment for acute kidney failure.

Three children in Phu Yen Province are in desperate need of financial support to continue their studies because their parents are in serious health condition.

Ho Chi Minh City plans to spend 90 billion VND (4.23 million USD) helping 13,000 local poor households have a joyful Lunar New Year (Tet) festival, which is the country’s biggest holiday.

DTiNews, along with Phuc Thanh Pagoda, in Nghe An Province have delivered Tet gifts to the poor people of Dan Lai, the smallest ethnic group in Vietnam.

Despite cold weather, thousands of students took part in “Red Sunday” to donate blood at the University of Commerce in Hanoi on January 12.

Nearly VND150 billion was raised by various organisations and individuals at the seventh “Spring for Children” program held in Hanoi on January 11.

The central city's Association for Victims of Agent Orange yesterday inaugurated Centre No. 1 for Agent Orange Victims on the occasion of the 10th Agent Orange Victims Day.

A 15-year-old boy from a poor family in Quang Binh Province is living with brain tumour that has made him blind and forced him to quit school.

Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan visited and gave gifts to a poor family with three ill children in Kon Tum Province after their story was published on DTiNews.

A blood donation festival called Red Sunday is scheduled to take place in ten northern provinces and cities, including the Trade University in Hanoi, on next Sunday.

A disabled boy from the Van Kieu ethnic minority group has been attempting to overcome his disability by walking to school on his knees for years.

Life for one poor family in central Ha Tinh has become destitute after their house burned down, leaving all burdens on the wife's shoulders.

A young poor couple in the central province of Nghe An is calling for community help to save their twins from fatal diseases.

A 13-year old boy in the southern province of Bac Lieu is facing bone cancer which has caused his face to become deformed.

A poor widow and her three small children, who live in a remote area of An Giang Province, are in desperate need of help after her husband died from an electric shock.

Overseas Vietnamese in Canada, Bulgaria, and the Netherlands have donated more than VND200 million to share with and support disadvantaged people back home.