People-to-people diplomacy: one of three main pillars for modern diplomacy

Phil Jordan, an Australian businessman in Ho Chi Minh City, donates medical equipment worth nearly 250 million VND (10,605 USD) to the healthcare centre of Van Yen district in Yen Bai province, to help care for newborn babies. The money was raised by Phil Jordan through his fundraising marathon in Sapa in 2020. (Photo: VNA)

On behalf of the State President, Vice President and General Secretary of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) Don Tuan Phong presented the decoration to East Meets West Foundation (EMWF) at a ceremony in Hanoi on September 13, 2018, for its contribution to Vietnam’s socio-economic progress. (Photo: VNA)

The Hanoi-based Hospital of Orthopedic and Functional Rehabilitation coordinates with the Mobility Outreach International (MOI) and the American Orthopedic Foot Ankle Society (AOFAS) to give free medical check-ups and surgeries for patients with ankle and foot deformities. (Photo: VNA)

The Department of Cooperatives and Rural Development and non-governmental Good Neighbors International (GNI) sign a pact to develop new cooperative models and farm produce value chains in Vietnam. (Photo: VNA)

Hessen state and the Messer Group GmbH of Germany present 160.000 rapid COVID-19 test kits worth 500,000 EUR to help Vietnam in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo: VNA)

Vietnamese Ambassador to Poland Nguyen Hung receives a batch of 501,000 COVID-19 vaccine dose donated by the Polish Government at Warsaw Chopin Airport on August 20, 2021. (Photo: VNA)

Members of MAT-19 – the most special bomb-clearing team, with almost all of its members being female, among 40 teams set up by non-governmental organization Mines Advisory Group (MAG) – scan for unexploded ordnance at a landmine site in the central province of Quang Tri. (Photo: VNA)

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Vietnam’s Air Defense Airforce Command (ADAFC) launched a dioxin remediation project at Bien Hoa Airbase, the largest remaining hotspot of dioxin contamination in Vietnam. The launching ceremony sees the presence of Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh and an US Senate delegation led by Senator Patrick Leahy, Vice Chair of the Senate Committee on Appropriations. (Photo: VNA)

The Vietnamese Embassy in Germany receives in Hamburg on August 17, 2021 and aid package of 10 tonnes of medical supplies donated by foreign friends and oversea Vietnamese in Germany for Vietnam’s COVID-19 fight. (Photo: VNA)