COMMUNITY

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.

As part of the twelfth Pink Holiday campaign, some young professionals have traveled beyond the country’s border, going to some isolated provinces in Laos to help out the friendly neighbours.

Hundreds of young people who are doctors and workers in HCM City set off to isolated and poor areas last Saturday morning in the twelfth Ky nghi hong (Pink Holiday) campaign.

The group of New Zealander cyclists pose for a picture in front of statue of a cock with nine spurs in Duc Trong District of the central highland province of Lam Dong.

The US Navy Military Sealift Command’s hospital ship USUN Mercy anchored at Cua Lo port to provide humanitarian and civic assistance through out Nghe An Province.

Four students from England have pedaled their bicycles from Hanoi to HCM City to raise funds to sponsor five poor students through their four years at university in Vietnam.

French-Vietnamese pianist Gabriel Tran Phuong Nam will perform his third concert in Vietnam on July 8, this time to support a clinic for ethnic minorities.

More than 23,000 units of blood have been donated since the Red Spring festival was launched in 2008.

The International Association of Democratic Lawyers has called on the Human Rights Council to protect the right to life of Vietnamese Agent Orange victims.

Blue Dragon, a charity working with kids in crisis throughout Vietnam, is calling for more donations to open two new centres for the rising number of children coming to them for help.