COMMUNITY

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.

South Korea will provide USD3.570 for 14 Vietnamese brides with broken marriages with South Korean men to help them have a better life.

Japan-Vietnam Friendship Association in Kawasaki City has recently promised to gift children in Vietnam’s central region an addition of 4,000 bicycles from now to 2013.

More than 6,000 visitors attended the international bazaar held by the United Nations Women’s Association in Geneva, Switzerland on November 22.

The Australian Government in the Asia-Pacific region has helped give cataract surgery and screening for refractive errors to Vietnamese patients.

Thousands of Vietnamese and expatriates flocked to the 18th annual HCM City Consular Club’s Charity Bazaar to raise fund for disadvantaged people.

Ha Tu Phuoc is a man with strong arms, a radiant smile typical of people from the Western Highlands, is caring for the mentally ill as his own children