At the handover ceremony (Photo: VNA) Thua Thien-Hue (VNA) – President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) CentralCommittee Tran Thanh Man and State Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh onNovember 30 presented aid packages to people of the central province of ThuaThien-Hue, to help them surmount consequences of recent storms and floods.
Extending hissympathies over storm-triggered losses to local authorities and residents, Man expressedhis belief that they will soon overcome the difficulties and stabilise theirlives.
The VFF has to datereceived more than 350 billion VND (15.07 million USD) in cash and kind tosupport flood-hit central localities, of which 325 billion VND has been presentedto the needy, he noted.
The official requestedprompt distribution of the aid to rebuild houses and evacuate people inhigh-risk areas of landslide to safer places, especially as the Lunar New Year(Tet) holiday draws near.
He handed over 2billion VND to support local residents while Thinh presented 1 billion VND fromthe National Fund for Vietnamese Children to orphans and disadvantaged childrenin the province.
Aid packages worth atotal 325 million VND donated by domestic businesses were also given toflood-hit households and five families of soldiers who died while carrying outsearch and rescue operations at the province’s Rao Trang 3 hydropower plant.
Chairman of theprovincial People’s Committee Phan Ngoc Tho said the locality has rolled outmeasures to overcome aftermaths of floods and help locals stabilise theirlives, pledging that the aid will be used for the right purposes and promptlydistributed to those in need.
Thua Thien-Huereported a death toll of 31, while 11 others went missing out of the 249victims of the recent disasters. In addition, it lost over 1.5 trillion VND tostorms and floods since this September./.
