COMMUNITY

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.

The WWO in coordination with local relevant agencies is carrying out the Rainbow Project to offer help to vulnerable children in HCMC for three years starting from this month.

Taiwan charity agency Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzuchi handed over 381 scholarships worth over VND260 million to poor students in district 9 in HCM City.

The running event Sapa21 Challenge Race for charity purposes will be organised in the tourist hotspot Sapa in northern Vietnam in a bid to raise funds to offer free swimming classes to poor children in the central region.

Plan International, an international humanitarian organisation, will provide USD2.5 million in aid to the central province of Quang Ngai during the period 2013-2016.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has granted a donation of $10.9 million to sanitation and hygiene projects in poor and rural areas in Vietnam and Cambodia.

More than 10,000 primary and secondary school students in Kon Tum province have been screened for vision problems under an eye care project supported by the US Government.

Child sufferers of cancer receiving treatment at the Hue Central Hospital recently had a two-day picnic at Lang Co Beach.

A stair-climbing race in the Landmark 72 Tower in Hanoi will be held next month to raise awareness and funds for people with disabilities through INSPIRE Sports.

Around 200 kids gathers at the Loc Ninh commune’s People’s Committee headquarters in Tay Ninh to watch movie at the free screenign held by the student volunteer club Share2Grow..

More than 100 paintings by Vietnamese and Australian artists are on display at an international exhibition which opened at the Mori Art Museum in Sydney.

The Italian Association for Aid to Children is coordinating with a Vietnamese counterpart to carry out a nutrition education project for ethnic people in Bac Giang Province.

Thirty students from the Imperial College London have come to Vietnam for two weeks to discover the country's rural lifestyle.

Hanoi has officially ignited a comprehensive programme -- the first of its kind in Vietnam -- to help the disabled integrate into society.

The Hanoi Department of Information and Communication presented 200 books and 100 DVDs related to Agent Orange to the Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin.

Around 160 overseas Vietnamese teenagers, who are attending the 2012 Summer Camp, set foot in HCMC – six days before the 19-day camp ends in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province.

An Australian funded eye care project plays an important role in developing and introducing new models for eye care at the grass-roots level in Vietnam.