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New Year gifts for Mekong Delta poor households

Delegations from the Steering Committee for southwest region on February 4 visited and presented gifts to poor households in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho and Ben Tre province.
Delegations from the Steering Committee for southwest region onFebruary 4 visited and presented gifts to poor households in the MekongDelta city of Can Tho and Ben Tre province.

Thegift packages came on the occasion on the forthcoming traditional LunarNew Year (Tet), the biggest festival in a year for Vietnamese.

Deputy Director of the committee Nguyen Phong Quang extended his NewYear greetings and delivered gifts (each worth one million VND) to 100low-income households in Phong Dien, Co Do and O Mon districts of CanTho.

The same day, Vo Trong Huu, head of thecommittee’s Department of Socio-Cultural Affairs presented Tet gifts to100 underprivileged households in Ba Tri and Thanh Phu districts of BenTre, each worth one million VND.

Huu said thecommittee has received 12 billion VND (560,000 USD) in donations frombusinesses and philanthropists to support low-income residents duringthe Lunar New Year.-VNA
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