Cakes made for underprivileged children
A record number of 1,000 banh chung
(square sticky rice) cakes will be wrapped and boiled in one big pot
this week and delivered directly to underprivileged children on the
occasion of the Lunar New Year festival.
A record number of 1,000 banh chung
(square sticky rice) cakes will be wrapped and boiled in one big pot
this week and delivered directly to underprivileged children on the
occasion of the Lunar New Year festival.
Recipients will include children in orphanages and centres for handicapped children and children infected with HIV/AIDS or suffering from other serious diseases.
The record-setting banh chung cake pot is part of the Merciful Tet programme to be held in Hanoi from February 5-7 with the support from non-governmental organisations in Vietnam, the Hanoi Society for Preventing and Combating HIV/AIDS and a number of foreign embassies in Vietnam.
The organisers expect that the programme will become an annual event for children nationwide./.
Recipients will include children in orphanages and centres for handicapped children and children infected with HIV/AIDS or suffering from other serious diseases.
The record-setting banh chung cake pot is part of the Merciful Tet programme to be held in Hanoi from February 5-7 with the support from non-governmental organisations in Vietnam, the Hanoi Society for Preventing and Combating HIV/AIDS and a number of foreign embassies in Vietnam.
The organisers expect that the programme will become an annual event for children nationwide./.
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