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Vu Thi Mi, an 8-year-old Mong ethnic girl, cannot hide her excitement when speaking about her Mid-Autumn Festival experience.

New-age airline Vietjet has teamed up with the Vietnam Association for Protection of Children’s Rights, Vietnam Women’s Union, Ho Chi Minh Youth Union Central Committee to bring the “Light up the dreams” programme to disadvantaged children with good academic performance in northern localities.

Ho Chi Minh City’s authorities are promoting reading culture in the community through a series of new programmes organised this year.

Ho Chi Minh City’s authorities are promoting reading culture in the community through a series of new programmes organised this year.

Young Vietnamese expats on July 14 visited the central province of Nghe An – the homeland of President Ho Chi Minh – as part of the 2019 Summer Camp.

As many as 150 young Vietnamese expats from 29 countries worldwide are joining the annual summer camp in Vietnam from July 10-26, according to the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs.

Ministries and localities nationwide have been implementing various programmes to help people from disadvantaged backgrounds enjoy the Lunar New Year, the biggest and most important holiday in Vietnam.

The first football tournament for disadvantaged children nationwide is set to take place in 2019, heard a press briefing in Hanoi on December 26.

Businesses pledged to sponsor nearly 80 billion VND (3.43 million USD) for the National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVC) under agreements signed at a programme in Ho Chi Minh City on December 8 with the attendance of Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh.

Acting State President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh has urged the Vietnam Farmers’ Union to accelerate the movement “Farmers 4.0” aiming to apply scientific and technological advances to create farm produce of better quality and generate higher economic benefits for farmers.

A group of young people go to every locality nationwide to give books and receive plastic garbage, thus encouraging children to develop the sense of environmental protection and reading enjoyment.

The central province of Thua Thien-Hue on August 25 launched a project to support local orphans and poor children with assistance from an US organisation.

Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh on August 22 presented scholarships and gifts to needy children and households in the central province of Binh Dinh.

President Tran Dai Quang has extolled 70 underprivileged students for their efforts to overcome a range of difficulties to achieve high academic results for many years.

Young women from across the country are encouraged to participate in the national Miss Vietnam 2018 competition, which has just been launched.

Volunteer students in Ho Chi Minh City have made 2,000 square glutinous rice cakes as presents to needy and homeless people in the city on the occasion of the Lunar New Year (or Tet).

Chairwoman of the Vietnam National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan presented 100 gifts to families of social welfare policies, poor households and victims of Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang during her pre-Tet visit to the locality on February 4.

One hundred gifts on January 29 were presented to underprivileged children in Chan Hung, Thuong Trung, Van Xuan communes, Vinh Tuong district, the northern province of Vinh Phuc ahead of the Tet.

The Zhi Shan Foundation of Taiwan (China) has pledged an aid package worth over 16.4 billion VND (721,600 USD) to support poor and disadvantaged children in the central region in 2018.

The Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang on December 29 hosted a ceremony to honour 37 units and 11 individuals for their outstanding contributions to local social welfare activities in 2017.