The Children’s Fund in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak on July 23 coordinated with the Operation Smile Vietnam to provide free examination and surgery for 140 needy people who suffer from cleft lip and cleft palate.
The National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVC) has raised more than 5.5 trillion VND (241.8 million USD) and thousands of tonnes of gifts for some 30 million children since it was founded 25 years ago.
Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh visited and presented gifts to children with cleft lip and palate at the Vietnam – Cuba hospital in Hanoi on April 20.
Vietnam-Cuba Hospital in collaboration with Operation Smile Vietnam launched the eponymous orthopaedic surgery programme on October 18 to help children with congenital hare-lip in the northern region.
Petr Novotny of the Cezch Republic won the 100km event at the Vietnam Mountain Marathon, which closed in Sa Pa in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai on September 25.
Starting the new school year, fourth-graders from the Hanoi Academy primary school had a chance to join in some very interesting and meaningful activities.
The fourth Vietnam Mountain Marathon 2016, which is set to be bigger and better than ever before, will take place on September 24-25 in Sa Pa, Lao Cai Province.
Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung and representatives from the Vietnam Children Sponsor Fund (VCSF) on June 15 presented gifts to families of children with disabilities.
Vietnamese artists and organisations donated artworks and precious objects to Vietnam Operation Smile for an auction to be held on June 18 at The Reverie Hotel.
Vietnamese and US doctors are joining in a humanitarian orthopedic surgery programme in Hanoi with a view to assisting less privileged children with deformities.
The organising board of the 2015 Vietnam Mountain Marathon, which ended in Sa Pa on September 27, handed over 200 million VND (9,100 USD) to Operation Smile, a non-profit organisation.
As many as 80 children with cleft lips and palates receive free surgeries under a programme taking place in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak from August 24 to 28.
More than 200 children with cleft lips and palates in Quang Ngai province and other central localities will benefit from free exams and surgeries provided by Operation Smile from August 17 to 21.
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.
As many as 150 free
cleft lip and palate surgeries will be conducted on children in the
central provinces of Nghe An, Ha Tinh and Quang Binh in an attempt to
help them integrate into society and pursue their education.
Vice President Nguyen Thi
Doan expressed her hope that the US organisation Operation Smile would
continue its support in providing plastic surgery on children with cleft
palates and lips, training personnel and transferring technology during
a meeting with the organisation’s Chief Executive Officer William Magee
in Hanoi on November 17.
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