Hanoi (VNA) – As of 12:00 on November 25, total donations registered through the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee’s Central Relief Committee to support people affected by recent storms and flooding exceeded 2.08 trillion VND (78.86 million USD), as per preliminary statistics.
By November 24, more than 1.05 million citizens and nearly 61,000 businesses had made donations via the relief committee. Contributions both in cash and in kind already transferred to it amounted to nearly 945.82 billion VND in value.
Meanwhile, the entire VFF network nationwide has received more than 3.2 trillion VND in financial aid for people to overcome the disaster aftermath.
The Central Relief Committee has so far disbursed nine rounds of relief worth over 678.18 billion VND in total, targeting 23 provinces and cities in the northern and central regions.
Localities and collectives have directly delivered 118.5 billion VND in assistance to affected provinces and cities. Vingroup, via its Thien Tam Fund, had disbursed more than 350 billion VND as of November 21, equivalent to 70% of its 500 billion VND Phase-1 relief package.
On November 25, representatives of the VFF Central Committee received contributions from various units, including the Party Central Committee's Commission for Information, Education and Mass Mobilisation (450 million VND), the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment (1.3 billion VND), Diana Unicharm JSC (1 billion VND), Vietnam Airlines Corporation (1 billion VND), Phuong Dong Investment One-Member Company Limited (1 billion VND), and University of Transport Technology (300 million VND), among many others.
Since October, VFF committees across the 34 provinces and cities have launched fundraising campaigns in response to the call of the VFF Presidium, mobilising on-site support and directly transferring assistance to affected localities./.
VNA
