COMMUNITY

This is the situation of Thach Thi Ngoc Dung, 29, in southern Tra Vinh Province.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan on August 3 visited and presented gifts to families of victims of Agent Orange/dioxin in the northern mountainous province of Bac Giang.

A family with four children, a paralysed mother and severely injured father find it difficult to get by in Binh Dinh Province.

American surgeon McKay McKinnon and a team of Vietnamese doctors have successfully removed large tumours from the faces of two local patients during eight-hour surgeries.

A poor woman in Nam Dinh province is struggling to raise three ill children while her relatives blame her for the children's bad health.

Using funds from readers' donations, Dan Tri Newspaper has helped bring new hope to a poor widow and her seven small children in Gia Lai Province.

Many readers have paid visits and made donations to a six-year-old girl who is plagued by kidney problems.

Around 10,000 volunteers will take part in a run for Agent Orange victims and disabled people in HCM City on August 3.

The Australian government has funded 13 projects in 10 provinces in southern Vietnam with AUD145,000 through its Direct Aid Programme for the 2012-13 financial year.

A young woman in Ha Tinh Province bears tremendous family and financial burden after her husband's death in Angola.

A strange illness has shrunk the right part of a little girl's body, and enlarged the left side. Because of a lack of funds, the illness has yet to be treated.

American surgeon, Dr. Mckay McKinnon, has returned to Vietnam to help remove the tumours of 12 more patients.

Dan Tri journalists have transferred over VND45 million, donated by readers, to an elderly couple in Thua Thien-Hue Province.

Father of a young man from Dong Nai Province, who suffers from thrombocytopenia, is trying to lengthen his life by cutting off rotten pieces off his body.

More than 1,000 people in the central city of Da Nang donated about 1,000 units of blood during July 17 as part of a national campaign of blood donation.

The Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs visited war veteran Phan Huu Duoc and gave him a savings book worth VND50 million.

German journalist Lothar A. Baltrusch shares about his motorbike trip to Vietnam to help support poor children.

A poor man from Ha Tinh Province is in the recovery room at the Vietnam-Germany Hospital after a serious accident.

A poor couple in Nghe An Province is in desperate need of help to treat their three children, all of whom suffer from mental diseases.