‘Rice ATM’ comes to poor in Ca Mau amid COVID-19 outbreak

After the success in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, the first ‘rice ATM’ has been set up in the Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau to help those in difficulties due to COVID-19 pandemic.

More than 10 tonnes of rice are donated by philanthropists and charitable organisations within one day (Photo: VNA)

Each person is provided with 2kg of rice at one time (Photo: VNA)

Many disadvantaged people who are greatly affected by the Covid-19 outbreak come to ‘withdraw’ rice (Photo: VNA)

The ‘Rice ATM’ aims to share difficulties to underprivileged people in the province, helping them to overcome the pandemic (Photo: VNA)

The ‘Rice ATM’ aims to share difficulties to underprivileged people in the province, helping them to overcome the pandemic

Rice filling at the rice ATM machine (Photo: VNA)

Rice filling at the rice ATM machine (Photo: VNA)

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