COMMUNITY

VND11.7 billion were raised for the “Fund for the Poor” of Quang Ninh province during a live broadcast of the provincial Radio and Television Station on December 28.

Red Cross Vietnam held a formal ceremony to receive an aid package of $15,000 from Chile’s Government and Embassy in Vietnam for flood victims.

Four Vietnamese “treasures” have been put up for sale as part of an online auction aimed at raising several billion VND to be used to help people living in poverty in the New Year.

Sixteen thousand children of poor families around country will have free milk every day in a campaign by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Some 5,896 households in 69 poorest districts nationwide have received one breeding cow each worth VND7 million from the Vietnam Red Cross.

A new rehabilitation centre was inaugurated on Monday and put into operation to provide shelter, healthcare, and treatment for victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin.

Over 8,800 primary and secondary students were screened for vision with those in need receiving eyeglasses under a new US-supported project.

Singers, actors, models and beauty queens throughout the country will take photos for a charity photo book to raise funds for purchasing Tet gifts for needy families.

For many poor people in HCM City, having their portraits taken by volunteer photographers of the Help Portrait program is a dream comes true.

Australian students build a house for a poor man in Vinh Long Province in southern Vietnam early December.

Since the start of this school year, a veteran in Dong Thap Province, has been offering free lunches to nearly 100 students.

The charitable agency is offering free surgeries to children suffering from childhood facial deformities in Hanoi in Ho Chi Minh City.

A charitable run was held in Hanoi to raise funds for cancer research and disadvantaged children suffering from fatal diseases.

Children at the Birla orphanage village received LEGO toys personally handed over by Danish Crown Prince Frederik Andre Henrik Christian.

Donors from 160 countries agreed to form a worldwide partnership to ensure tens of billions of dollars in foreign aid goes to help the neediest.

The German Red Cross provided 350 water filters to poor residents in the areas most severely affected by the recent floods in Quang Binh and An Giang.

The Norway People’s Aid will provide $2.9 million for a project to minimise deaths and injuries by unexploded ordinances in the central province of Quang Tri.

The German government will provide EUR1.4 million to help flood victims in the Mekong Delta region, said the German embassy in Hanoi.

The 15th Terry Fox charitable run was held at the Phu My Hung urban area in Ho Chi Minh City on November 27.