Nearly 811 tonnes of rice offered to needy families in Dak Lak
Close to 811 tonnes of rice supplied by the Government have been distributed to impoverished residents of the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak ahead of the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival.
Close to 811 tonnes of rice supplied by the Government have been distributed to impoverished residents in Dak Lak province (Illustrative photo: VNA)
Dak Lak (VNA) - Close to 811 tonnes of ricesupplied by the Government have been distributed to impoverished residents in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak ahead of the Tet (Lunar New Year)festival.
The assistance was presented to about 15,800 families with 54,065members across 12 districts of the province.
Director of the Dak Lak Department of Labour, Invalids andSocial Affairs Tran Phu Hung said the aid has helped ease difficulties forlocal people amid the adverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and naturaldisasters.
The distribution was carried out in a prompt manner withpreventive measures being in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19./.
The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) plans to offer over 12,000 packages of Tet (Lunar New Year) gifts to poor households and welfare facilities at a total cost of over 14 billion VND (606,519 USD), according to Vice President of the VFF Central Committee Truong Thi Ngoc Anh.
Nguyen Van Giau, Chairman of the National Assembly’s Committee for External Relations, led a delegation to visit and present gifts to disadvantaged workers in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang on January 13.
The Vietnam Red Cross Society (VNRC) targets mobilising the necessary financial resources to provide at least 1.5 million gifts to poor and near-poor households, victims of Agent Orange (AO), victims of natural disasters and COVID-19 in 2020, and other vulnerable people ahead of the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.
More than 420,000 gift packages have been given so far to workers and Government employees in Ho Chi Minh City facing difficult circumstances, in the hope of bringing them a warmer Tet, Vietnam’s traditional Lunar New Year holiday, according to a local official.
