COMMUNITY

UN officials said Sunday that nearly $1 billion will be needed this year to feed and care for the roughly one million Rohingya refugees living in overcrowded camps in southeastern Bangladesh.

Dantri/DTiNews readers have donated over VND124m (USD5,400) to a four-year-old girl in Dak Lak Province who can't walk or speak because of illnesses.

Many women in the Mekong Delta region who married to South Korean men and are facing difficulties have been supported by a project jointly launched by Can Tho City’s Women Association and Korea Centre for United Nations Human Rights

Dantri/DTiNews Newspaper has helped build two more nursery classrooms in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai under the sponsorship of Japan’s Nagoya Taiko Lions Club.

Dantri/DTiNews has transferred over VND134m (USD5,900) donated by readers to support a 70-year-old woman in Ha Nam who has to take care of four ailing children and two abandoned grandchildren.

Dantri/DTiNews Newspaper and its management agency the Vietnam Study Promotion Association have just started construction of two classrooms in the central province of Quang Binh.

A poor man in the central province of Ha Tinh is in desperate need for financial support so he can undergo urgent surgery after a traffic accident.

A little boy from the mountainous province of Cao Bang has been saved from retinoblastoma thanks to receiving donations for treatment from Dantri/DTiNews readers.

Hundreds of doctors and staff at two hospitals in Hanoi donated blood on the Vietnam Doctors' Day on February 27.

A man in Hue City is rescuing 200 abandoned and abused dogs and cats every year to help them find new owners.

A poor family in Thua Thien-Hue is seeking for the community help. Severe traffic accidents have caused a stroke for the husband and traumatic brain injury for the wife, leaving a gloomy future for their five children.

Thousands of poor women in India's Tamil Nadu state have been offered free cosmetic breast surgery, including implants, its health minister said Friday, because "poor people also have a right to look beautiful".

Huyen, a nine-year-old girl in Hung Yen Province is in need of financial support for her lymphoma treatment as her parents are too poor to pay hospital charges.

The UN children's agency said Wednesday it was unaware that its deputy director faced complaints of inappropriate behavior toward female staff before hiring him two years ago.

The Hoa Lam Corporation held a meeting recently with Operation Smile, the US non-profit medical service organization, to connect and exchange opportunities for bilateral cooperation and then proceed to implement specialized health facilities serving Vietnamese people and the community.

DTiNews readers have donated VND203 million (USD9,227) for a little ethnic minority girl in the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang who is struggling with retinoblastoma.

A 71-year-old teacher in Can Tho City is still going to classes almost every day for the past 40 years, giving free lessons to the local children.

An 11-year-old girl in Ha Tinh Province has also to take care of her mother who has cancer and father with acute myelitis.

A group of young people from the central province of Ha Tinh brought Tet gifts to homeless people in Hanoi.