COMMUNITY

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs in coordination with the WB and UNICEF hosted a seminar in Lam Dong to share their experiences in implementing programmes to provide money to poor children.

A man in Can Tho City has set up a free mineral water stall and offering free vegetarian meals four days a month.

The programme “Connecting the Hearts” was held in New York to raise fund and call for assistance to children with heart disease in Vietnam .

Over 43,000 school children will receive access to eyecare treatment in the southern province of Ba Ria Vung Tau thanks to a project run by the International Centre for Eyecare Education.

Care International in Vietnam has made many practical contributions to assisting 5,000 households affected by floods in An Giang, a provincial agency has said.

Operation Smile will organise a charity art auction and gala dinner in HCM City on May 26 to raise funds for 500 surgeries for Vietnamese children.

A night of live music and entertainment will take place at the Australian Embassy in Hanoi on March 30 to raise funds for seriously ill children across Vietnam.

American veteran Mike Boehm comes to Vietnam every March, over the last 18 years, to assist poor women in the central province of Quang Ngai.

The Chinese Group Tiens donated USD60,000 to Vietnamese Agent Orange victims, through the Vietnam Association for AO/Dioxin Victims, according to the Group’s President Li Yin-yuan.

Peace Trees Vietnam, which consists mostly of US war veterans, will continue funding operations to clear unexploded ordnance in central Quang Tri and Quang Binh provinces this year.

Donations of goods and cash worth USD167,865 were granted to to over 4,800 poor households in Dong Thap Province to help them overcome the aftermath of the devastating floods in 2011.

Celebrities have joined the music show entitled “The Day of Women,” which is a non-profit program to be held on March 6, to raise funds for building a bridge in the central province Quang Binh.

SOS Children’s Villages International will help to build another similar village as well as a SOS pre-school costing USD2.5 million in Pleiku, in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai.

Kristina Nguyen, 24, is the only American of Vietnamese origin taking part in humanitarian activities in Cameroon, West Africa.

A music association named “Dioxin Country Mascaret “has been set up in Bordeaux, France to raise funds for Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange/dioxin.

Young doctors in Nghe An Province established a club to provide free health treatment for residents in mountainous areas.

Young, beautiful, and talented, Tina Thien Nga Nguyen dedicates most of her free time, apart from family responsibilities and running her own business to her tireless charity work.

Montgomerie Links, near Da Nang City, hosted the ‘2012 Swing to Swim Charity Golf Day’ to raise funds for survival swimming programmes in the central region of Vietnam.

The Vietnam Red Cross Association donated USD30,000 to the Philippines on Thursday in the aftermath of tropical typhoon Washi.