A performance for children, especially those living in difficult and special conditions will be held in Hanoi on October 1 in a bid to ease their pain and lift their spirits.

Nguyen Dinh Lieu, Chairman of the Vietnam Association for the Protection of Disabled People and Orphans has confirmed the information.

Artists from the Vietnam Youth Theatre and Vietnam Circus Federation will offer attendees programmes of crowd-pleasing music and circus acts, as charitable gifts for the children on the occasion of the Mid Autumn Festival 2009, which will fall on October 3.

The charity art performance is expected to be broadcast on the HTV No.1 channel of Hanoi Television Station, Lieu said.

He added that his association will organise another programme to bring the Mid Autumn Festival on October 2 to children in Hoang Van Thu commune, Yen Lang district, Lang Son province and present bicycles and scholarships to them./.