COMMUNITY

Vietnam is closing the 2025 lunar year marked by severe storms and floods that caused heavy losses for communities across northern and central regions and the Central Highlands.

Charity funds totalling USD 6,600 have been handed to flood affected households in Dak Lak to help families restore livelihoods after devastating floods last month.

More than 200 Dao ethnic minority residents in Tuyen Quang Province received medical consultations from a central hospital on December 28, their first direct access to national level healthcare.

Readers have donated more than VND 257 million (about USD 10,700) to help five young sisters in Ha Tinh Province who lost their father and whose mother is suffering from severe depression.

A 75-year-old man in Dak Lak Province is struggling to care for three disabled adult children, living in extreme poverty after years of hardship and loss.

Teachers and pupils at Ta Lo San and Ta Khoa Pa school branches in Dien Bien are studying in deteriorating classrooms with leaking roofs and no electricity, clean water or reliable phone signal.

Dantri/Dtinews Newspaper has presented 20 scholarships to disadvantaged children in Chieng Sinh Commune, Dien Bien Province, on behalf of its readers.

Dantri/Dtinews Newspaper has completed eight new homes for disadvantaged families in Dien Bien Province, funded by reader donations.

Bui Dinh Thang, 31, has just regained consciousness after a prolonged coma in the intensive care unit at the National Burn Hospital in Hanoi, where deep burns cover much of his body.

Japan has pledged USD 1.5 million in emergency and recovery aid to support Vietnamese communities hit by storms and floods, focusing on Dak Lak, Gia Lai, Khanh Hoa and Lam Dong.

Dantri/Dtinews Newspaper has approved a project to build 50 floating flood-resistant houses for vulnerable households in Dak Lak Province.

Dantri Newspaper has begun building seven new houses for poor families in Cao Bang Province using funds donated by its readers.

Dantri/Dtinews on December 10 inaugurated and handed over two charity houses to disadvantaged families in My Thuan Commune, the southern province of Vinh Long.

Ireland is funding a humanitarian project in Quang Tri Province to aid bomb victims and persons with disabilities while promoting mine risk education for a safer community.

Supporters in Hanoi have sent over 1,000 notebooks, 100 jackets and 85 warm blankets to students in flood-hit Nghe An Province.

A husband and wife in Haiphong City, both suffering from cancer, are now in debt and putting their small home up for sale in order to pay for medical care.

Dantri Newspaper and the Trangsparent Company have provided drinking water filters to pupils at three schools in a flood-affected area of Dak Lak to help ensure safe water.

Readers of Dantri/Dtinews Newspaper have donated VND 200,000,000 (USD 7,575) to build two houses for families hit by storm Bualoi in Lao Cai Province.

By late November, 379 foreign NGOs were operating regularly in Vietnam, providing nearly USD1.14 billion in assistance during 2020-2024.