An ill widow in Ha Tinh Province is calling for financial support to help her treat kidney problems and cover study fees for her daughters after the sudden death of her husband.
Nguyen Hung, a paralysed lottery ticket seller in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, has finally got his dream house. Part of funding for construction came from a housing programme run by the UNDP.
A delegation of surgeons from the US-backed Face to Face programme is providing medical checkups and surgery for patients at the National Otorhinolaryngology Hospital of Vietnam (NOH).
Every Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday, the Autumn charity group and their friends cook porridge for poor patients at 6 hospitals in Hanoi. The free meals show their compassion for poor people.
Qatar said Wednesday it has set up a support fund for foreign workers who run into difficulties, such as not being paid, the latest in a series of UN-backed labour reforms.
A poor couple in the northern province of Nam Dinh Province are calling for financial support for her children, including two suffering from spastic cerebral palsy.
A poor woman in the northern province of Ha Nam is struggling with nasopharynx cancer, while her husband is usually sick, leaving a gloomy future for three small children.
A poor woman in the southern province of Vinh Long Province is calling for financial support to help treat a giant tumour which is the result of parotid gland cancer.
The Vietnamese government has just presented the Friendship Order to Katrin Kandel, Executive Director of Facing the World in recognition of the contributions that she and her organisation have made to Vietnam over the past decade.