COMMUNITY

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.

A woman in Ha Nam Province is calling for financial support to help treat her 15-year-old son who is suffering from cerebral palsy.

The European Commission has provided 200,000 euro ($237,000) in humanitarian aid funding to assist the worst-affected communities from Typhoon Damrey, which wreaked havoc across large parts of Vietnam’s central and south-central regions in early November.

The US Ambassador in Vietnam, H.E. Daniel J. Kritenbrink, has just launched Phase II of the Enhanced Capacity of the Vietnam Red Cross project on behalf of the US Government.

A family in Can Tho City is in need of help to treat their son suffering from heart diseases who weighs only 12kg despite being 10 years old.

Dantri/DTiNews and donors have started construction of classrooms and rooms for teachers in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang.

Biopharmaceutical firm supporting Vietnamese children with heart disease and providing scholarships to local students.

Japan's Shinnyo-en Buddhist organisation continues to co-operate with Vietnam Fund for Learning Promotion and Dantri/DTiNews Newspaper to open a new building for disadvantaged pupils in Thai Nguyen Province.

Save the Children has launched a communication campaign, entitled Every Last Child, with a focus on nutrition for ethnic minority children in Vietnam.

A poor student in the central province of Ha Tinh who is suffering from bone cancer is in desperate need of the support.

A workshop to improve the performance of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Vietnam has taken place at the Vietnamese House in Washington DC.

UNICEF and eleven factories in Vietnam’s footwear and apparel sector launched the “Children’s Rights in the Workplace Program for Footwear and Apparel Manufacturers” last week to look specifically at improving the wellbeing of children, working parents, and young workers.

Dan Tri has transferred VND186 million (VND8,100) in reader donations to a man and his son who are both suffering from cancer in Vinh Phuc Province.

A two-year-old boy in the northern province of Ha Nam is in desperate need of help after his mother died. He is currently being looked after by his poor and ailing maternal grandparents.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has decided to provide VND1 trillion (US$44 million) for localities affected by Typhoon Damrey that hit south central provinces early this month.