Since 2008, the initiative has attracted strong support from businesses, organisations and individuals, assisting more than 77,400 poor and near-poor farming households and other vulnerable groups, with total funding exceeding 131 billion VND.
Livelihood assistance will also be provided such as breeding animals, crops, production tools, loans, vocational training, and market linkages, as well as house construction and repairs for poor families, contributing to the building of new-style rural areas and civilised urban communities.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh during the third meeting of the central steering committee for eliminating substandard houses described the housing support programme as a “command from the heart” and called for the completion of the programme by the end of October 2025.
Chairman of the Ninh Thuan provincial People’s Committee Tran Quoc Nam described the housing renovation programme as a core political mission, reflecting the Party and State's dedication to supporting disadvantaged people.
Nearly 200,000 gift packages worth about 110 billion VND (4.36 million USD) were provided for disadvantaged people and policy beneficiary families in Ho Chi Minh City on the occasion of the Lunar New Year (Tet).
Representatives from the Ministry of Public Security on April 12 handed over funding to the southern province of Tra Vinh to build 1,290 houses for local poor and near-poor families.
Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai on February 4 visited and gave gifts to 400 policy beneficiaries, poor and near-poor households, and workers living in difficult circumstances in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang on the threshold of the Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival.
State President Vo Van Thuong extended warm Tet greetings to disadvantaged people and workers with difficulties while attending the “Tet sum vay – Xuan tri an” (Tet reunion – Spring gratitude) programme in Ho Chi Minh City’s Thu Duc city on February 2 (the Kitchen God Day- 23rd day of the 12th lunar month).
A programme to make chung (square, glutinous rice cake) for disadvantaged people will take place at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism on January 30 on the outskirts of Hanoi, ahead of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.
The Switzerland-Vietnam Friendship Association (SVFA) in coordination with the Vietnamese community in Switzerland held Solidarity Day 2023 in Zurich on December 3 to strengthen solidarity and mutual support between people of the two countries for peace and friendship among nations in the world.
Sen Vang (Golden Lotus), a Vietnamese charity foundation in Berlin, has provided support for many disadvantaged people in Vietnam, Germany, Europe and Africa since it was set up in 2014.
About 18.8 million disadvantaged people have received support from the Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRC) in 2022 with a total funding of 4.7 trillion VND (over 198 million USD), heard a conference in Hanoi on December 21.
Vietnamese Ambassador to Germany Vu Quang Minh on October 20 handed over 3,000 EUR (nearly 3,000 USD) in donations to Maria Richter, director of a centre supporting the homeless and disadvantaged people in Lichtenberg district of Berlin.
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, who is also Honorary President of the 10th-tenure Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRC), on August 29 met with 80 delegates representing nearly 500 participants in the 11th VRC National Congress for the 2022 - 2027 tenure.
People with disabilities in the Mekong Delta province of Long An were presented with 204 wheelchairs worth over 1 billion VND (43,100 USD) by the Consulate General of Thailand in Ho Chi Minh City in coordination with 4 Oranges Co. Ltd on May 25.
Authorities of the central province of Quang Ngai will earmark over 30.8 billion VND (over 1.35 million USD) sourced from the local relief fund to support households affected by floods in 2021, on the occasion of the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival.
Ho Chi Minh City, Dong Nai and Ba Ria-Vung Tau provinces have allocated big budgets to provide aid for disadvantaged people and factory workers ahead of the upcoming Tet, Vietnam’s traditional Lunar New Year holiday.
