COMMUNITY

Japan’s Personal Closet M&V has held a charity party in Tokyo to raise funds for Doctor Tadashi Hattori’s charitable activities in Vietnam.

A charity ultra-marathon dubbed “Tole to Pole: Vietnam” will commence in Quang Ninh on December 9 to raise funds to improve access to clean water for poor communities.

The Tu Tam club, a group of young people in Hanoi, are raising funds for their Christmas charity programme in Ba Vi District.

Three tonnes of rice and a lot of necessities were donated to Birla Children's Village Hanoi under a charity programme.

Roughly 10,000 people are expected to join an event named “The Hanoi Run for Children 2012 (HRC)” on December 2 this year at Thien Quang Lake.

REACH, a Vietnamese NGO, will provide free vocational training courses for disadvantaged young people.

Duong Thach Thao and her friends ask restaurant and store owners in Hanoi to donate their leftover food to charity.

A major charity campaign was launched to collect donations through mobile texting to help Agent Orange victims and poor households enjoy the coming Tet holiday.

A charity gala night was held by the Vietnam Association for Children Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin in France and the Vietnam-Belgium Friendship Association in Brussels.

The East Meets West Foundation and the Vietnam Paralympics Association have presented 320 wheelchairs to disabled people in 10 provinces and cities throughout Vietnam.

The Vietnamese Youth and Students Association held a charity concert in Japan on November 4.

A group of young people have been providing free vegetarian meals to family members of patients at Hanoi Heart Hospital.

A Vietnamese NGO has joined with a local football club to build a football ground for disadvantaged children in Hoa Binh Province.

A blood donation festival for cancer patients themed ‘Like Sunflowers’, was held in Hanoi on October 21.

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.