COMMUNITY

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

The Vietnamese Party and State always create the most favourable conditions for Overseas Vietnamese (OV) to invest in Vietnam and to contribute to the national construction cause.

More than 5,000 people from agencies and businesses joined a walk to raise funds for the poor in HCM City on November 13.

US Ambassador to Vietnam David Shear presented $50,000 to four Vietnamese civil organisations to support their community development projects.

Recent floods on November 7-8 destroyed a long section of coastline in the central province of Thua Thien Hue.