Chairman of the Vietnamese Red Cross Tran Ngoc Tang handed over USD50,000 to a representative of the American Red Cross in Vietnam on May 30, to support tornado victims in the U.S.’s southern states.
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| The tornado in the US\'s Alabama state in April 28 (Source:AFP/VNA) |
The funds were raised from the Vietnamese Government and people and were expected to contribute to helping communities in the damaged areas overcome losses and rebuild. It also aimed to strengthen friendship relations between the two governments and people.
Six hundred tornadoes and storms in the U.S. in April this year have killed 310 people in seven southern states. In Alabama , the hardest-hit state, 210 people were killed and another 1,700 injured.
In past years, the American Red Cross has always worked side-by-side with the Vietnamese Red Cross in supporting the organisation’s charitable activities, especially in a project on school hygiene and nutrition from 2005-2008, HIV/AIDS prevention projects in Hanoi, Haiphong and Thai Nguyen, and a current project on disaster risk reduction and emergency relief in the central coastal provinces of Vietnam.