The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) has presented an insignia “For Peace and Friendship among Nations” to Hosoya Kumiko, member of the Japan-Vietnam Council for Peace and Friendship (JVPF).
Addressing the presentation ceremony in Hanoi on Dec. 3, VUFO Vice President Tran Dac Loi thanked Kumiko for her active support to Vietnamese Agent Orange victims and disadvantaged Vietnamese children and provision of scholarships to boarding school ethnic students over the past 15 years.
Kumiko has written a diary about her visits to 29 families of AO victims and AO victims at the Peace and Friendship Villages in Hanoi and the AO Victims Rehabilitation Centres in the northern province of Thai Binh, central Da Nang city, the southern province of Tay Ninh and Tu Du Hospital in HCM City during 16 times of visiting Vietnam.
She also made a DVD recording memories of AO victims in Thai Binh province.
Kumiko said she would like to convey to younger generations of Japanese an image of the life of Vietnamese AO victims that she had witnessed with her own eyes.
She also promised to provide further assistance to the victims.
Also on this occasion, Hiramatsu Tomoko, a member of the JVPF delegation, presented a book on former Vietnamese Vice State President Nguyen Thi Binh to VUFO Vice President Loi.
The 300-page book, which was published in Japan in November 2010, praised Binh with illustrated pictures of the Japan-Vietnam friendship and the consequences of the war in Vietnam./.
Addressing the presentation ceremony in Hanoi on Dec. 3, VUFO Vice President Tran Dac Loi thanked Kumiko for her active support to Vietnamese Agent Orange victims and disadvantaged Vietnamese children and provision of scholarships to boarding school ethnic students over the past 15 years.
Kumiko has written a diary about her visits to 29 families of AO victims and AO victims at the Peace and Friendship Villages in Hanoi and the AO Victims Rehabilitation Centres in the northern province of Thai Binh, central Da Nang city, the southern province of Tay Ninh and Tu Du Hospital in HCM City during 16 times of visiting Vietnam.
She also made a DVD recording memories of AO victims in Thai Binh province.
Kumiko said she would like to convey to younger generations of Japanese an image of the life of Vietnamese AO victims that she had witnessed with her own eyes.
She also promised to provide further assistance to the victims.
Also on this occasion, Hiramatsu Tomoko, a member of the JVPF delegation, presented a book on former Vietnamese Vice State President Nguyen Thi Binh to VUFO Vice President Loi.
The 300-page book, which was published in Japan in November 2010, praised Binh with illustrated pictures of the Japan-Vietnam friendship and the consequences of the war in Vietnam./.
