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Live show to raise funds for the poor on Lunar New Year

The Vietnam Red Cross Society will host a charity show, to be broadcast live by Vietnam Television, on January 7 to raise funds for the poor and AO/dioxin victims on the upcoming Lunar New Year
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Hanoi, January 3 (VNA) – The Vietnam RedCross Society (VRC) will host a charity show, to be broadcast live by VietnamTelevision, on January 7 to raise funds for the poor and Agent Orange/dioxinvictims on the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet).

At a press conference on the event held inHanoi on January 3, VRC President of Nguyen Thi Xuan Thu said the show, anannual activity of the VRC, aims at raising donations to send at least two millionTet gifts to disadvantaged communities, particularly victims of naturaldisasters.

The show is set to take place at the Au Coart centre in Hanoi. It will mark the VRC’s 71st foundinganniversary and 20 years since it first launched the programme to support theneedy and AO/dioxin victims on Tet.

Also with the aim of helping the poorcelebrate a happy Lunar New Year festival, the VRC is running a textingcampaign from December 27, 2017 and February 24, 2018. Each message of “TET”sent to 1409 will donate 20,000 VND (0.88 USD) to the purpose.

Initiated in 1999, the VRC’s Tet charityprogramme delivered 10 million gifts worth over 3.4 trillion VND (149.6 millionUSD) over the past five years.-VNA
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