COMMUNITY

Pop singer My Tam and three overseas Vietnamese, Thanh Ha, Elvis Phuong and Dinh Nguyen, will join a live concert to raise funds for underprivileged children with cancer at Da Nang’s Trung Vuong Theatre on January 19.

An 81-year-old grandmother in Phu Yen Province is in need of help to support her grandchildren after the death of their mother.

Grobest Industrial Vietnam Company has presented hundreds of scholarships for poor pupils in several provinces with Dantri/DTiNews and the Vietnam Study Promotion Association.

Dantri/DTiNews has completed a new house for a family in Ha Nam Province with three mentally-ill members before the Lunar New Year Tet Holiday.

Dantri/DTiNews has opened new classrooms for disadvantaged children at Chieng Kheo Primary School in Son La Province.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will support the construction of 300 houses in the central provinces of Khanh Hoa, Phu Yen and Quang Nam, which were seriously affected by typhoon Damrey in 2017.

More than 40 tonnes of vegetables from Da Lat City have been sent to the island district of Truong Sa as gifts to islanders before the Tet holiday.

A poor ethnic minority woman in the Central Highlands of Gia Lai Province is suffering from bone cancer while in the fourth month of pregnancy.

A 90-year-old woman in the northern province of Ha Nam is in desperate need of financial support as she is taking care of her two children who both suffer from mental health problems.

A family in Yen Bai Province is calling for financial support to treat their son who has been suffering from leukaemia for seven years.

A couple in Ninh Binh Province who are both suffering from cancer are calling for help to support their five children.

Cho Ray Hospital in HCM City has donated VND100 million (USD4,545) in prize money won at the Vietnamese Talent Awards 2017 to people who have been affected by Storm Tembin.

An old woman in Vinh Long Province is in need of financial support to help treat a strange disease that causes her face to rot away.

A family in Quang Nam Province is in need of financial support to provide medical treatment for three ill members.

A group of Hanoi expats is giving something back to the city they now call home.

A woman in the central province of Ha Tinh has become blind for many years after being attacked with acid. Now, her family is facing a big debt following her treatment.

Teachers at a primary school in the central highlands province of Gia Lai are calling for financial support to help their pupils have proper meals and school equipment.

Around 150 children affected with cleft lips and cleft palates are to be provided with free check-ups and surgery in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from December 18-29 under a joint program between Operation Smile and MobiFone.

On December 17, Do Thi Kim Lien, South African Consul in Ho Chi Minh City granted VND700 million ($31,818) to build 10 houses for families of poor soldiers of the Vietnam People's Navy.