Meeting held to facilitate foreign NGOs' operations in HCM City

Ho Chi Minh City held an annual meeting with foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) operating there on June 7 to listen to their voices so as to create more favourable conditions for their operations.
Meeting held to facilitate foreign NGOs' operations in HCM City ảnh 1Foreign NGOs are presented with merit certificates at the meeting on June 7 (Photo: VNA)

HCM City (VNA) – HoChi Minh City held an annual meeting with foreign non-governmentalorganisations (NGOs) operating there on June 7 to listen to their voices so asto create more favourable conditions for their operations.

Chairman of the HCM City Union of FriendshipOrgansations Huynh Minh Thien, head of the city’s working group on foreignNGOs, said there are 160 licensed foreign NGOs from America, Europe, Asia-Pacificand Africa in HCM City at present.

In 2017, the municipal People’s Committeeapproved their Vietnamese partners’ reception of over 48 million USD funded byforeign NGOs for 17 new projects, five existing projects, and 143 non-projectaid packages. Foreign NGOs also sponsored the Vietnamese side with more than 27million USD for two projects and 56 non-project aid packages in the first fivemonths of 2018.

Thien said most of the aid is provided forhealthcare programmes and projects such as a project supporting HIV/AIDSprevention, combat and treatment, provision of cancer medicine, scientificstudies on health care, and presentation of medical equipment and biochemicalproducts.

Additionally, support projects in education –training, care for children, women and the disabled, and settling social issueshave also resulted in practical outcomes and contributed to localsocio-economic development, he added.

At the meeting, representatives of the unions offriendship organisations of southern localities also called for foreign NGOs’aid and projects.

The Union of Friendship Organisations of TraVinh province called on foreign NGOs to assist the province to implementprojects in education, agriculture, and building houses for the poor. Itpromises optimal conditions for and close coordination with them to carry outprojects.

The union of Ben Tre province also pledgedfavourable conditions for social security projects, especially in rural cleanwater supply, Agent Orange victim support, and rural transport infrastructurebuilding, which are run by foreign NGOs. -VNA
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