COMMUNITY

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.

A man living in Quang Nam Province has spent his labor and life savings to build a bridge in the region.

A blood donation campaign known as the Red Spring festival will be held at the My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi on March 3.

Doctor Luan Thanh Truong, head of the medical unit in Thanh An Commune of Can Gio Island, never regretted his decision to volunteer to work here - one hour from the mainland.

A man in Gia Lai Province has voluntarily taken on the job of caring for dozens of people with mental disabilities in his home.

Japanese Tess Co. is introducing to Vietnam its pedal-powered wheelchair for rehabilitation and mobility that can be operated even by people with almost completely paralyzed legs, without having to use their hands.

Robert Nugier, 69, walked a long way to reach a poor family in the southern province of Tien Giang and left promising to return with a cow they have wanted for years.

Secretary of the Party Central Committee To Huy Rua presented gifts to beneficiary and poor households in Bac Ninh province on February 5 in the lead up to the Lunar New Year.

Ho Chi Minh City Youth Union launched the 2013 Spring Volunteer Campaign on January 27, attracting 11,000 students from 8 local districts.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has decided to offer disadvantaged people relief aid during the coming lunar New Year (Tet) holiday and lean months.

About 20 years ago, during a charity trip to Nam Dong District of the province, Soeur Vu Thi Tho witnessed a crowd of people surrounding a month-old infant tied with a dead mother.

Hanoi will host the fifth blood donation day on January 20 in an effort to support hospitals in saving patients during the upcoming lunar New Year festival.

More than 2 billion VND and 900 gift packages were raised for the Agent Orange/dioxin (AO) victims in Da Nang in a music programme held in the central coastal city on January 13.