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“For a Vietnam with no one left behind amid COVID-19” project launched

The Management and Sustainable Development Institute (MSD) in coordination with 14 partners on August 15 launched the project “For a Vietnam with no one left behind amid COVID-19.”
“For a Vietnam with no one left behind amid COVID-19” project launched ảnh 1At the launching ceremony (Photo: www.qdnd.vn)

Hanoi (VNA) – The Management and Sustainable Development Institute (MSD) incoordination with 14 partners on August 15 launched the project “For a Vietnamwith no one left behind amid COVID-19.”

Under the project, tolast until December, more than 400 needy households in Hanoi and Ho Chi MinhCity will receive food and hygienic equipment, and instructions on how to fightthe pandemic.

The total funding ofthe project is 78,500 USD provided by United Way Worldwide (UWW), 3M Company,and Community Chest of Korea (CCK).

MSD Director NguyenPhuong Linh said through the project, the institute and its partners want toease the burden for those hardest affected by the pandemic, expressing her hopethat the model will be rolled out on the larger scale so that no one is leftbehind.

Accordingto Jacky Kang, Director of 3M Vietnam, projects in cooperation with the UWWform part of the company’s programme valued at 20 million USD, aiming to copewith COVID-19 globally.

Onthis occasion, gifts, including food, medical supplies and hygienic equipment,were presented to 15 households in Hanoi./.
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