Connecting Viet Youth 2017 to open in Hanoi

Various activities as part of the Connecting Viet Youth 2017 programme will take place in Hanoi from August 6-9.

Wednesday, August 02, 2017 14:21

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Hanoi (VNA) – Various activitiesas part of the Connecting Viet Youth 2017 programme will take place in Hanoifrom August 6-9.

The event will be hosted by the Ho Chi MinhCommunist Youth Union chapter of the Hanoi municipal Students Association, the WorldEconomic Forum’s Global Shapers Community – Hanoi Hub, the Vietnamese StudentAssociation in the UK, the Volunteer for Education Organisation and Vietnamesestudents’ associations in the US, Australia, France, the Republic of Korea,Hungary and Singapore.

Opening the event will be a charity run atHang Day stadium with more than 300 young people taking part, a music show withDJs and singers and a flash mob.

A charity programme, including blooddonation, music performances and gift-giving to more than 300 child patients beingtreated at the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, will belaunched on August 7.

The forum “Creativity in industrial era4.0”, scheduled for August 9, will be attended by Bitexco Chairman Vu QuangHoi, US Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius, 50 leading start-ups in tech and 1,000Vietnamese young intellectuals working and studying abroad.

All proceeds will be used for charity,including building a house of gratitude in Muong Mun commune, Tuan Giaodistrict, the northern province of Dien Bien and a new school for poor studentscosting 261 million VND (11,300 USD) in Tenh Phong commune.-VNA

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