The European Union (EU) on August 28 granted 100,000 EUR as relief aid to local residents effected by severe floods earlier this month in Central Highlands and Mekong Delta provinces.
Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue launched a programme on August 19, calling on the public to send text messages to the national charity portal to support poor people in need.
A workshop took place in the Southern province of Dong Nai on Monday to discuss on a project to support disabled persons in seven localities exposed to Agent Orange.
Vietnam National Institute of Burns will provide free treatment for a poor woman who has been living with a deformed face and burn marks for nearly five decades.
A poor boy in the northern province of Hai Duong has been saved from pulmonary Langerhans' cell histiocytosis thanks to a donation of Dantri/DTiNews readers.
Dantri/DTiNews readers donated VND47.8 million (USD2,078) to a 27-year old man in the central province of Ha Tinh who suffers from cirrhosis and multiple organ failure.
Dantri/DTiNews Newspaper have donated VND5 million (USD217.37) for the family of a policeman in the northern central province of Thanh Hoa who died helping people during the floods.
More than 5,000 people joined a charity walk in Ho Chi Minh City to call for further community support for victims of Agent Orange (AO)/ Dioxin and people with disabilities.