More than 8,500 disadvantaged students in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong will receive over 500 tonnes of rice in the second academic semester this year as decided by the provincial People’s Committee.
Hanoi plans several activities to care for revolution contributors in the city ahead of the War Invalids and Martyrs’ Day (July 27), including the upgrade and construction of nearly 7,300 houses.
The central province of Thua Thien – Hue has so far supported 14,000 needy households in accessing preferential loans from the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) in 2017.
Metfone, the Cambodian arm of the military-run telecommunication group Viettel, presented 150 gifts to needy Vietnamese expatriates in Phnom Penh on January 24.
President Tran Dai Quang on January 13 visited and presented Lunar New Year (Tet) gifts to state policy beneficiaries, poor households in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai.
The Trade Union of the Ho Chi Minh City Export Processing and Industrial Zones Authority is set to organise various activities to help workers celebrate Tet (Lunar New Year) this month.
287 individuals and groups donated more than 43 billion VND (1.89 million USD) at the fund-raising event “Lunar New Year (Tet) for the needy” held in the central province of Nghe An on January 9.
Taking care of people, especially the needy and vulnerable, during the Lunar New Year (Tet), is the responsibility of all-level Party Committees and local authorities, an official has said.
As many as 178 firms have donated more than 32 billion VND (1.4 million USD) to help disadvantaged residents in the central province of Nghe An enjoy the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.
Ho Chi Minh City will continue exerting efforts to improve living conditions for poor households and disadvantaged groups needing support, affirmed Nguyen Thi Thu, Vice Chairwoman of the municipal People’s Committee.
The Taiwanese business association in the central city of Da Nang handed over 170 gifts to old people and children being cared at the local social support centre on December 22.
The Vietnam Red Cross Society is striving to provide at least one million gifts for needy people on the Lunar New Year holiday (Tet), VRCS Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Xuan Thu stated at a fund-raising event in Hanoi on December 20.
More than 5,000 students and youths participated in a walk in Ho Chi Minh City on August 14 to raise money for scholarship funds in support for disadvantaged students.
The Central Highlands province of Kon Tum has offered financial support to 84,000 poor, near-poor and ethnic minority households to improve their livelihoods over the past five years.
As many as 350 scholarships have been presented to poor students with good performances in their study as part of an annual programme “Sharing the Dream.”
A Government programme on assisting poor households in central region build flood and storm-proof houses has reached 11,253 needy families as of the end of the second quarter this year.
The Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients in the southwest region decided to extend its target to poor people in general, at a session in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on May 25.
The US-based Half the Sky Foundation will sponsor more than 3.4 million USD to build the OneSky care centre and kindergarten in the central city of Da Nang.
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