The oil and gas company Exxon Mobil Vietnam on August 21 donated 75,000
USD to Operation Smile Vietnam to provide free surgeries on cleft lip
and cleft palate of about 300 children across the country.
The Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Hospital in Hanoi and Operation Smile
Vietnam organisation will give free medical checks and surgery to
children suffer from cleft lips and cleft palates from April 15-18.
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.
Operation Smile Vietnam is offering free surgery for children with
facial deformities in southern Ba Ria – Vung Tau and neighbouring
provinces from July 29 – August 2.
Miss Vietnam 2012 Dang Thu Thao will be the ambassador for a charity
text-messaging drive to raise funds for Vietnamese AO victims, the
Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange /dioxin (VAVA) said on
August 9.
Operation Smile Vietnam will extend their free surgery program to
An Giang province from April 8-12 to offer life-changing surgeries to
children suffering from cleft lips and cleft palates in the Mekong Delta
region.
Forty-two children with harelips and cleft palates in the two Central
Highlands provinces of Dak Nong and Dak Lak have received free check-ups
and operations.
The Johnson & Johnson Medical SA Inc. of the US will provide 80,000
USD to the Hanoi Children Protection Fund to help disabled and
disadvantaged children in the capital city.
A 12-member delegation from the Operation Smile programme of Australia
will visit Vietnam in late this month to explore the country’s
activities in the field.
The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) on August 5 signed
an agreement to grant and extend representative office establishment
licences to three foreign non-governmental organisations.
Eighty poor patients with facial deformities, who are ethnic minority
people in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong , received
free-of-charge operations during a humanitarian programme from June
21-24.
The Ambassador of Operation Smile
Vietnam , Andrew Keating, has been awarded Vietnam ’s “For Peace and
Friendship among Nations” insignia for his great contributions to
charitable activities in the country.
The largest free programme in the
20-year history of Operation Smile Vietnam is expected to bring smiles
to the faces of 2,000 Vietnamese underprivileged and disadvantaged
children until Nov. 14.
About 2,000 children with facial
deformities across the country will receive free-of-charge surgeries
during a week-long campaign from Nov. 6-13 held by Operation Smile
Vietnam (OSV).
Two famous tourist cities in Vietnam
and Australia , Hoi An and Kiama, have agreed to strengthen cooperation
to boost economic, cultural and educational exchanges.
