Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam News Agency (VNA), people nationwide, as well as overseas Vietnamese (OV) have continue joining hands in supporting recovery efforts by residents in the northern areas hit by Typhoon Yagi.
On September 14, a delegation of the VNA’s Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union chapter and Communications Development Centre visited and delivered aid to flood victims in Phu Tho province.
In Ha Hoa district, one of the worst-hit districts, the delegation presented 300 gift packages, mainly essential goods, and a large number of textbooks and school supplies worth nearly 200 million VND (8,100 USD) in total to residents in seriously flooded communes.
Initial statistics show that two people have died while one been injured in Ha Hoa. Meanwhile, over 4,300 households have had to evacuate due to flooding and landslides. Damage to educational, transport and irrigation infrastructure, along with agriculture is considerable.
Losses caused by Typhoon Yagi here are estimated at more than 143 billion VND.
On September 13 - 14, the Party Committee, People’s Council, People’s Committee, and Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of the southernmost province of Ca Mau held two fundraising programmes to support storm-hit people in the northern region. A total of 145.3 million VND was donated at these events.
Ca Mau has also donated 6.7 billion VND sourced from the local budget to the Central Relief Mobilisation Committee as well as nine localities hit hard by the storm and flooding.
Meanwhile, the Permanent Mission of Vietnam in Geneva and the Vietnamese Embassy in Switzerland held events on September 13 to call for donations to the affected people.
In Laos, the Vietnamese Consulate General in Pakse city of Champasak province, the General Association of Vietnamese People in Laos, and the Vietnamese People Association in Vientiane have also organised similar activities to raise support for storm victims in the homeland along with the northern Lao provinces affected by Yagi.
As of September 14 noon, the Vietnamese Consulate General in Pakse had raised 188 million LAK (8,500 USD), the General Association of Vietnamese People in Laos 175 million LAK, and the Vietnamese People Association in Vientiane over 100 million LAK.
On September 13, the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan held a teleconference on the fundraising where representatives of Vietnamese people’s associations in the country reported that many organisations in the community have actively responded to the campaign.
Via the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the Vietnamese community in Kansai donated 202 million VND while the Vietnamese People Association in Saitama gave 200 million VND in aid. The Union of Vietnamese Associations in Japan has also called for donations from the OV community across the Northeast Asian nation, collecting 512,000 JPY (3,600 USD) so far.
Typhoon Yagi, the most powerful in the East Sea in 30 years and in the Vietnamese mainland in 70 years, caused heavy human and property losses.
As of 6am on September 15, the storm and its accompanying downpours, flooding, and landslides had left 348 dead or missing and injured 1,921 others. They damaged nearly 232,000 houses, more than 190,000ha of rice, nearly 48,000ha of other crops, 32,000ha of fruit trees, along with 3,269 aquatic cages. More than 2.6 million poultry and livestock were also killed.
The Ministry of Planning and Investment estimated material losses at about 40 trillion VND (over 1.6 billion USD)./.
