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The Ministry of Education and Training in collaboration with the Korea Foundation granted 305 scholarships during a ceremony in Hanoi on December 18.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) along with the Korea Workers’ Compensation & Welfare Service (KCOMWEL) and Hong Ngoc General Hospital provided free health check-ups and medicines for 200 poor patients.

FPT Joint Stock Company has granted 100 scholarships to students suffering from disabilities as consequence of Agent Orange/dioxin in central Quang Tri province.

A delegation from the Mekong Delta province of Long An gave out 300 gifts for needy people, both overseas Vietnamese and Cambodians, in Cambodia’s capital city of Phnom Penh on December 3.

A Japanese non-governmental organisation presented 30 wheelchairs to handicapped people in Dong Hung district, the northern province of Thai Binh on November 18.

Nearly 1,000 disadvantaged people in the central province of Ha Tinh received free health consultations, check-ups and medicine on October 11.

The Hessen State Ministry for Science and Art (HSMSA) and the German World University Service (WUS) presented scholarships to 20 needy students from the northern province of Thai Nguyen on Sept. 29

Nearly 200 under-16 children with disadvantaged backgrounds in the central coastal province of Binh Thuan received free heart check-ups on September 26.

University dreams have came true for 34 disadvantaged students from the central region after they were granted the “SPELL Goes to College” (SGTC) scholarships in Da Nang City on September 27.

A full moon festival was held in Hanoi on September 24 for nearly 1,000 children from disadvantaged backgrounds in the city.

A Mid-Autumn journey through five mountainous communes along the Ho Chi Minh Road is being held from September 20-21 to raise public awareness of the responsibility to care for children.

Hundreds of needy people in the central province of Quang Nam have received support from the Lifestart Foundation run by Australian Karen Leonard.

The National Fund for Vietnamese Children on Sept. 18 teamed up with the AIA Vietnam Life Insurance Co. Ltd to present 30 bicycles and 30 gift packages, worth 55 million VND (2,447 USD) in Tra Vinh.

Good Neighbors International (GNI) from the Republic of Korea (RoK) has donated gifts worth 5.5 billion VND (250,000 USD) to disadvantaged students in the northern province of Ninh Binh.

Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan presented 120 scholarships worth 2 million VND (89 USD) each to impoverished students from ethnic minority groups in northernmost Ha Giang province on September 8.

A number of organisations across the country have granted scholarships to underprivileged students on the threshold of the new 2015-2016 school year.

Gifts and scholarships sponsored by philanthropists reached disadvantaged communities in Soc Trang, Binh Dinh and Ho Chi Minh City on August 28, as a new school year quickly approaches.

Crowds of Vietnamese people in Singapore gathered at a fund-raising gala dinner to donate to the Orchid Scholarship Fund reserved for outstanding Vietnamese children in need.