COMMUNITY

A charitable programme has been bringing blankets to thousands of students in some mountainous and remote provinces.

A new SOS children’s village, the 14 th of its kind in Vietnam, opened in Quy Nhon City, in the central province of Binh Dinh.

Standard Chartered Vietnam has pledged 1 billion USD for a project to reduce preventable blindness in Vietnam in 2013-2016.

More than VND51 billion (USD2.4 million) was raised at a “Day for the Poor” launch ceremony in Hanoi on October 7.

Nearly VND15 billion was raised for children with congenital heart disease through a charity programme in Hanoi on September 29, organized by the Vietnam Heart Fund.

Six Agent Orange/Dioxin victims from Vietnam and the Republic of Korea will join in a trans-Vietnam cycling tour from November 1-25.

For the first time, Project Happy Feet Slipper Race will be hosted in HCM City next month to raise funds for the education and training of underprivileged children.

The Vietnam Volunteer Information Resource Centre and a UN-funded project on enhancing volunteer capacity for Vietnam’s development met to set up a network of volunteer organisations.

Fifty eight students, aged 6 to 25, with particular defects have been learning with Teacher Le Thi Hoa for six years at Huong Lan Pagoda, Hanoi's Chuong My District.

The Central Highlands provinces have provided free housing to 18,695 ethnic-minority households with a total population of 80,000, according to the region's Steering Committee.

Professor Tadashi Yamamoto has brought smiles to hundreds of children in Vietnam through harelip and cleft palate operations.

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.