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Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh has called on management officials, agencies, organisations, and businesses to join in encouraging more people to donate blood to help hospitals ease the chronic shortage.

This year's 'Red Sunday' blood donation campaign with the participation of 31 provinces and cities nationwide is anticipated to collect an estimated 35,000 units of blood to solve the blood shortage during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday.

A poor ethnic minority couple in Tuyen Quang Province is calling for financial support to help treat their small daughter who is suffering from retinoblastoma.

Irish Aid, in co-operation with the central city of Đà Nẵng, has signed an agreement for a project described as strengthening the capacity and sustainability of early childhood disabilities detection and intervention for the next three years with funds

DTiNews readers have donated VND87 million (USD3,954) for a poor family in the central province of Nghe An in which the father is suffering from rectal cancer and his daughter have heart problems.

The Spring Volunteer Campaign, the 10th of its kind, was officially launched in Ho Chi Minh City in on January 14, with the participation more than 30,000 local students.

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.