Accordingto the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Vietnam has more than 9million policy beneficiaries, including 1.2 million martyrs, over 127,000heroic mothers, and over 2 million wounded soldiers.
MinisterDao Ngoc Dung stressed the need for organisations and individuals toparticipate in supporting war invalids, families of martyrs and AgentOrange/dioxin victims in order to improve their living conditions.
Communicationsshould be intensified to raise public awareness of the work, he stated,suggesting expanding the movement “all people take care of war invalids,martyrs’ families and people who rendered service to the nation” andencouraging policy beneficiaries to take part in socio-economic developmentactivities.
NguyenThien Nhan called on each office, organisation and family which does not livein poverty to do specific deeds to care for policy beneficiaries.
Rightafter the launching ceremony, more than 50 organisations, businesses andindividuals donated a total of 3.8 billion VND (167,200 USD) to help policybeneficiaries.-VNA
