COMMUNITY

Operation Smile will organise a charity art auction and gala dinner in HCM City on May 26 to raise funds for 500 surgeries for Vietnamese children.

A night of live music and entertainment will take place at the Australian Embassy in Hanoi on March 30 to raise funds for seriously ill children across Vietnam.

American veteran Mike Boehm comes to Vietnam every March, over the last 18 years, to assist poor women in the central province of Quang Ngai.

The Chinese Group Tiens donated USD60,000 to Vietnamese Agent Orange victims, through the Vietnam Association for AO/Dioxin Victims, according to the Group’s President Li Yin-yuan.

Peace Trees Vietnam, which consists mostly of US war veterans, will continue funding operations to clear unexploded ordnance in central Quang Tri and Quang Binh provinces this year.

Donations of goods and cash worth USD167,865 were granted to to over 4,800 poor households in Dong Thap Province to help them overcome the aftermath of the devastating floods in 2011.

Celebrities have joined the music show entitled “The Day of Women,” which is a non-profit program to be held on March 6, to raise funds for building a bridge in the central province Quang Binh.

SOS Children’s Villages International will help to build another similar village as well as a SOS pre-school costing USD2.5 million in Pleiku, in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai.

Kristina Nguyen, 24, is the only American of Vietnamese origin taking part in humanitarian activities in Cameroon, West Africa.

A music association named “Dioxin Country Mascaret “has been set up in Bordeaux, France to raise funds for Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange/dioxin.

Young doctors in Nghe An Province established a club to provide free health treatment for residents in mountainous areas.

Young, beautiful, and talented, Tina Thien Nga Nguyen dedicates most of her free time, apart from family responsibilities and running her own business to her tireless charity work.

Montgomerie Links, near Da Nang City, hosted the ‘2012 Swing to Swim Charity Golf Day’ to raise funds for survival swimming programmes in the central region of Vietnam.

The Vietnam Red Cross Association donated USD30,000 to the Philippines on Thursday in the aftermath of tropical typhoon Washi.

The Indonesian community and diplomats in Ho Chi Minh City launched a charity blood drive yesterday and collected 88.5 units of blood, or 22 liters of blood.

The Saigon Cyclo Challenge 2012 will take place in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 7 on March 10 to raise funds for children, charity and the community.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung has instructed the Ministry of Finance to supply free of charge 3,592 tonnes of rice to the northern mountainous provinces of Dien Bien and Lang Son.

Local diva Thanh Lam and quirky singer Tung Duong will hold a concert on the day of love, Valentine’s Day, in Hanoi to raise fund for cancer children patients.

A functional rehabilitation programme funded by the German organisation, Caritas has helped disabled people in Quang Tri Province integrate into the community.