Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has sent a dispatch to relevant ministries, sectors, and localities requesting they focus on settling the consequences of natural disasters and recovering production in the central region.
A delegation of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) led by General Director Nguyen Duc Loi on November 5 visited the central province of Quang Nam, one of the hardest-hit localities by recent floods and storms.
The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committee of Hanoi has received donations totalling more than 59 billion VND (2.5 million USD) for flood victims in the central region since October 13.
A working delegation from the Vietnam News Agency (VNA), led by member of the Party Central Committee and VNA Director General Nguyen Duc Loi, visited the central province of Thua Thien-Hue and held a working session with leading officials on November 2.
The General Association of Vietnamese People in Thailand on November 1 handed over more than 5 million THB (160,000 USD) to the Vietnamese Embassy in the country, to support flood victims at home.
Vietnamese Embassies in Malaysia and the United Kingdom and local Vietnamese societies there have been busy over the last several days raising funds for flood-stricken people in the central region.
The Vietnamese Permanent Mission to the UN, the World Trade Organisation and other international organisations in Geneva, Switzerland, held a fundraising event on October 27 to support flood-hit people in the central region of Vietnam.
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has presented an emergency aid package worth 20,000 USD, from the KOICA Club Vietnam fund, to the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) to help disadvantaged groups affected by the recent floods in the central region.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Laos held a fund-raising event on October 25 in support of people affecting by the recent record flooding in central Vietnam.
As much as 660,000 baht (19,200 USD) was raised by Vietnamese expats in Thailand’s Udon Thani province to support flood victims back in the homeland in a programme held on October 23.
Fund-raising programmes to support flood victims in the central region were launched by the Vietnamese embassies in Russia, Singapore, the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Germany.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia and the Vietnam Business Club in Cambodia (VBCC) raised fund on October 17 to support theVietnamese-Cambodians living on Tonle Sap water who are forced to relocate to land this month.
A group of Vietnamese alumni living in Sydney, Australia joined a 21.5km-long walk to raise fund for poor Vietnamese children with a total amount of over 300 million VND (13,000 USD).
Overseas Vietnamese (OVs) and families with Vietnamese adoptive children in Italy along with Italian friends have donated 4,200 EUR (nearly 5,000 USD) to Da Nang Hospital in the central city of Da Nang for emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vietnamese businesses in Russia have still stood firm and left a good impression amid the COVID-19 crisis, affirmed an article recently posted on Russian news agency Sputnik.
The Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organizations (HUFO) in conjunction with Tzu Chi – a non-governmental organisation of Taiwan (China), on May 30 presented 2,000 gift packages worth 3 billion VND (128,590 USD) to disabled and blind people in the city.
Overseas Vietnamese in Thailand and the Republic of Korea have donated 704 million VND (30,000 USD) to support the fight against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the homeland.
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