Vietnam will send another 600,000 USD to Syria to assist the country in overcoming consequences of the February earthquake, raising the total aid from the Vietnamese Government and people to the Middle East country to 900,000 USD.
Japan’s Shinnyo-en Foundation and the Vietnam Study Promotion Fund have awarded 88 scholarships to disadvantaged students in the northern provinces of Hung Yen and Nam Dinh.
Doctors from the Ho Chi Minh-based Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine have provided free health check-ups and medicines for disadvantaged Vietnamese and locals living in Khammouane during a programme in the central Lao province from December 5-10.
Schoolteachers Jake Norris from Australia and Sean Down from Ireland are embarking on a trailblazing trek to support the anti-child trafficking Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation and the anti-child poverty Thanh Loc project.
A poor couple in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai have received nearly VND430 million in donations from the public to help save their small daughter from a brain abscess.
As many as 50 coaches and athletes with disabilities have attended a swimming master class put on by experts Rudy Garcia-Tolson and Julia Harbough of the United States.
A poor couple in the central province of Nghe An have received nearly VND1.20 billion (USD48,910) in donations from the public to help save their small son from heart disease.
Dantri/Dtinews Newspaper Editor-in-Chief Pham Tuan Anh has decided to send donations to support the families of two women who have been swept away by a flood in the central province of Ha Tinh.