COMMUNITY

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.

One million books will be given to children from rural, mountainous and remote areas of the country as part of a progamme launched by the Kim Dong Publishing House.

A group of 10 foreigners are riding Honda 67 bikes from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City to raise funds for improvements in healthcare for childbearing women and premature babies in the central region.

The US side has pledged to strive to maintain the budget for Agent Orange/dioxin treatment programmes in Vietnam in 2013 at the same level as in 2012.

A new obstetrics and gynaecology clinic that will offer reproductive-health services for low-income families has been opened in Dong Nai Province's Bien Hoa City.

Eighteen riders from Australia, England, New Zealand and the US have taken off on the third edition of Rally Indochina, an exclusive group of committed bikers riding for charity purposes.

The Vietnam Red Cross signed a programme in Hanoi on April 6 to forge partnerships in humanitarian activities with nine agencies and businesses for the 2013–2018 period.

It was not easy for Claus Ruff to go around his home in Germany and collect money to help children with heart ailments in Vietnam.

Doctors at the National Hospital of Pediatrics in Hanoi say that an emaciated three-year-old boy hospitalized earlier this month has tested positive for HIV and is now suffering from full-blown AIDS.

The Western Australian Wheelchair for Kids charity organization has said it will send 160 wheelchairs to children suffering from the effects of Agent Orange in Vietnam.

Operation Smile Vietnam will extend their free surgery program to An Giang province from April 8-12 to offer life-changing surgeries to children suffering from cleft lips and cleft palates.

As many as 153 poor children in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang have received free medical check-ups provided by the California-based Social Assistance Programme for Vietnam.

The United States Agency for International Development will provide $3 million to help disabled people in central Da Nang city and some other localities in Vietnam.

Over 1.7 million people in poor and rural areas received free reproductive healthcare as part of a Government social franchising service, according to a conference in the capital city on March 21.

The Vietnam Friendship Village held a meeting in Hanoi on March 18 to commemorate its 15th anniversary and receive the Labour Order, first-class.

A French Rotary Club project has provided 100 electric wheelchairs to disabled workers in the south of Vietnam.

The US charitable organization TCF will provided VND810 million in non-refundable aid for a project in support of disadvantaged people in Thua Thien-Hue, central Vietnam.

Three members of the Vietnam Children's Fund have worked to build 48 schools throughout Vietnam over the last 20 years.