COMMUNITY

The East Meets West Foundation and the Vietnam Paralympics Association have presented 320 wheelchairs to disabled people in 10 provinces and cities throughout Vietnam.

The Vietnamese Youth and Students Association held a charity concert in Japan on November 4.

A group of young people have been providing free vegetarian meals to family members of patients at Hanoi Heart Hospital.

A Vietnamese NGO has joined with a local football club to build a football ground for disadvantaged children in Hoa Binh Province.

A blood donation festival for cancer patients themed ‘Like Sunflowers’, was held in Hanoi on October 21.

A charitable programme has been bringing blankets to thousands of students in some mountainous and remote provinces.

A new SOS children’s village, the 14 th of its kind in Vietnam, opened in Quy Nhon City, in the central province of Binh Dinh.

Standard Chartered Vietnam has pledged 1 billion USD for a project to reduce preventable blindness in Vietnam in 2013-2016.

More than VND51 billion (USD2.4 million) was raised at a “Day for the Poor” launch ceremony in Hanoi on October 7.

Nearly VND15 billion was raised for children with congenital heart disease through a charity programme in Hanoi on September 29, organized by the Vietnam Heart Fund.

Six Agent Orange/Dioxin victims from Vietnam and the Republic of Korea will join in a trans-Vietnam cycling tour from November 1-25.

For the first time, Project Happy Feet Slipper Race will be hosted in HCM City next month to raise funds for the education and training of underprivileged children.

The Vietnam Volunteer Information Resource Centre and a UN-funded project on enhancing volunteer capacity for Vietnam’s development met to set up a network of volunteer organisations.

Fifty eight students, aged 6 to 25, with particular defects have been learning with Teacher Le Thi Hoa for six years at Huong Lan Pagoda, Hanoi's Chuong My District.

The Central Highlands provinces have provided free housing to 18,695 ethnic-minority households with a total population of 80,000, according to the region's Steering Committee.

Professor Tadashi Yamamoto has brought smiles to hundreds of children in Vietnam through harelip and cleft palate operations.

A 500-sickbed cancer hospital will be put into operation in the central city of Danang in October and will give free treatment to poor patients.

A volunteer barber group from the Youth Union of Hau Giang Province’s Dong Phuoc Commune has been giving free haircuts to poor people and students over the last two years.

More than 500 mobility-impaired children from 30 provinces will be provided with free check-ups and surgeries at the Phuc Lam International General Hospital in Hung Yen province.