COMMUNITY

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.

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.