HCMCity (VNA) - A charity walk was held in Ho Chi Minh City on August 5with the participation of more than 5,000 people to raise funds for AgentOrange (AO)/dioxin victims and the disabled.
Addressingthe event, Tran Quoc Hung, Vice President of the Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRC)Central Committee, said about 4.8 million Vietnamese people were exposed toAO/dioxin during the wartime and the number of people affected by the chemicalwould amount to tens of millions.
Overthe past years, the association has supported 4.9 million AO victims and theirfamilies through various activities with total funding of more than 1.27trillion VND (54.61 million USD), he said.
Hungstressed that the VRC calls on organisations and individuals nationwide to joinhands to help AO victims and people with disabilities.
In2017, the programme collected over 1 trillion VND (43 million USD), providingsupport for more than 3,000 AO victims.-VNA
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