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Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan offered nearly 200 gifts to contributors to the nation’s revolution on July 12 in northern Nam Dinh and Ninh Binh provinces on the occasion of the upcoming War Invalids and Martyrs’ Day (July 27).

A ground breaking ceremony to build a boarding school for ethnic students was held on July 8 in Thuan Mang commune in Ngan Son district of the northern mountainous province of Bac Kan.

As many as 40 disadvantaged children who benefited from free eye surgery programmes received gifts at a ceremony on June 12 in Hanoi.

Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan met with 55 disadvantaged students from all over the country with excellent academic records on May 28 on the occasion of International Children’s Day (June 1).

A ceremony was held in Hanoi on May 27 to recognise the academic achievements of outstanding students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Hong Lan, accompanied by the heads of the National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVC), visited children being treated for facial anomalies at the Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Hospital, Hanoi on May 26.

A month of action for children entitled “Listening to children” will be launched across the country from now to June 1, aiming to promote laws and policy as well as actions on ensuring children’s right to participate.

The National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVC) plans to raise 75 billion VND (3.5 million USD) this year from domestic and international resources for programmes to protect and care for children and provide education assistance.

Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan has thanked Fashion Group Hyungji of the Republic of Korea (RoK) for its support of poor children in Vietnam besides its investment in the northern province of Bac Giang.

Scholarships under the “Together with you to school” programme were presented to 120 disadvantaged children in the northern mountainous province of Thai Nguyen on December 25 to support their study.

Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan presented scholarships, each worth 3 million VND (142 USD, to 110 poor students excelling in studies at a ceremony in the northern province of Bac Ninh on December 25.

The National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVC), in cooperation with AIA Vietnam and the Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho, launched the “Life’s Journey” programme on November 6 to raise funds to buy bicycles for the city’s disadvantaged children.

Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan on August 25 presented scholarships under the programme “Together with children to school” to needy students in the northern province of Hung Yen.

The National Fund for Vietnamese children (NFVC) and Chevron Vietnam Ltd. in collaboration with the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho handed over 100 scholarships to disadvantaged students in the city at a ceremony on August 12.

President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan on July 27 presented gifts to needy children in Phu Quoc island district, the southern province of Kien Giang.

A programme raising money to buy bicycles for children from disadvantaged backgrounds was launched in the central city of Da Nang on June 13.

The National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVC) plans to raise 87 billion VND (over 4 million USD) in 2014, up 40.3 percent against 2013, in a bid to care for 58,000 disadvantaged children.

A programme launched by the National Fund for Vietnamese Children in 1997 has so far helped treat nearly 20,000 kids with cleft lip and palate, helping them better integrate into society.