The 7th edition of the charity concert “Nhung Trai Tim Dong Cam”
(Sympathy Hearts) took place at the Hanoi Opera House on May 30, with
the aim of raising funds for children with disabilities.
Some events have been held around the country on Children’s Day June 1
this year in an attempt to call on the community to better protect and
care for children health.
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Head of the Government Steering
Committee on Crime Prevention, urged relevant agencies to verify the
news report published in The Guardian newspaper that 3,000 Vietnamese
children were trafficked to the UK and forced to engage in illegal
activities.
A festival for children will be held at the Culture-Tourism Village of
Vietnamese ethnic groups in Dong Mo, Hanoi, from May 29 to June 1, which
is International Children’s Day.
Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan met with 55 disadvantaged students from
all over the country with excellent academic records on May 28 on the
occasion of International Children’s Day (June 1).
The central province of Thua Thien-Hue is running a water safety
and survival skills programme for local schools in order to reduce the
number of cases of drowning among children in the locality.
Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Hong Lan,
accompanied by the heads of the National Fund for Vietnamese Children
(NFVC), visited children being treated for facial anomalies at the
Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Hospital, Hanoi on May 26.
Art programme “Nhung Trai Tim Dong Cam” (Sympathy Hearts) this year will
donate over 1 billion VND (45,800 USD) to impoverished children and
children with disabilities, said the organising board.
A month of action for children entitled “Listening to children” will be
launched across the country from now to June 1, aiming to promote laws
and policy as well as actions on ensuring children’s right to
participate.
German mask-making activity have brought great spellbinding experience
to Vietnamese children, who attend the special education programme held
by the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum and the Goethe Institute on May 23.
German mask-making activity have brought great spellbinding experience
to Vietnamese children, who attend the special education programme held
by the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum and the Goethe Institute on May 23.
Vietnamese children aged from 8 to 12 will have the chance to
discover German people and culture when they attend a special education
programme held in Hanoi on May 23, 24 and 31.
A memorandum of understanding on a public-private partnership was signed
by the US State Department and AIP Foundation in Hanoi on May 14 to
raise funds from US and Vietnamese firms to provide helmets and road
safety tips to students in provinces across Vietnam.
The Zhi Shan Foundation from Taiwan (China) has recently provided an aid
package worth 2.6 billion VND (120,000 USD) to the central province of
Quang Binh to support poor and disadvantaged children in the province.
Following several intensive campaigns, Hanoi, central Da Nang city and
Ho Chi Minh City recently recorded higher helmet-wearing rates among
children, reaching 68 percent in average from 38 percent in March,
according to surveys from the Asia Injury Prevention (AIP)
Foundations.
The ‘life journey’ charity programme kicked off its second year with an
event to present bikes to needy children at the Ha Tinh Film and
Culture Centre on May 8 in the central province of Ha Tinh.
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