COMMUNITY

Vietnam's Ministries of Health, and Education and Training on June 4 completed a large-scale, US-supported distribution of medicine to help over 918,000 children in disadvantaged provinces fend off intestinal worms.

An 18-months old boy from a poor family in Ha Tinh Province is under treatment for four serious diseases at the hospital.

Philanthropists gave VND39 million to help a woman who has suffered debilitating pain from osteitis and myelitis for 13 years.

A widowed woman in Ben Tre has to support a paralyzed mother and a small daughter suffering from Beta Thalassaemia when she herself also has the disease.

Children with disabilities in Vietnam are facing several challenges integrating into the community, including discrimination and little education opportunities.

Twenty-five cyclists from the UK will arrive in Da Nang City tomorrow, completing a 10-day, 1,500km ride from the northern province of Lao Cai.

An infant child who has been abandoned twice is under treatment at the Central Pediatrics Hospital.

A project to reduce the disaster risks for residents in Tien Giang and Dong Thap provinces was launched yesterday.

Over 70,000 children in HCM City are living in underprivileged conditions, according to a new report.

The German Red Cross has pledged to continue humanitarian projects in Vietnam during the 2013-2015 period to promote charitable activities that benefit disadvantaged people.

Construction of a new SOS village, the first of it kind in the Red River Delta region, began in Thai Binh Province yesterday.

Over 10 days, 25 British volunteers have been riding 1,500km from Lao Cai to Danang to spread the latest newborn baby nursing advancements throughout Vietnam.

A poor woman in Quang Binh who received donations to help her cure her sick baby has shared part of the money with other disadvantaged people in the area.

A shop in Hollywood, home of the stars, is a direct line of support for poor heart patients in far away Vietnam.

A campaign themed “Red Blood Summer 2013” was launched in Hanoi on May 8 with a target of mobilising nearly 600,000 people to donate at least over 300,000 units of bloods during the 2013 summer.

A grade-12 student in Nghe An Province who died after saving five children from drowning has been posthumously honoured by the Ministry of Education and Training.

It is difficult to ensure enough food and clothes for abandoned children at many centres in Vietnam while the overcrowding is making the problem worse, according to a caretaker.

More than 5,000 delegates gathered at a ceremony in Hanoi on May 5 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement in the world.

Nguyen Thanh Hien is a 25 year old woman living in Nghe An Province but has to live with osteitis and myelitis for 13 years.