The National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVC) signed an agreement worth 2.5 billion VND (over 106,500 USD) on August 31 with a local firm to sponsor underprivileged children.
A collection of 50 paintings by children with disabilities, orphans and underprivileged is on display at the city’s Fine Arts Museum to mark Children’s Day (June 1).
The prolonged flooding in Vietnam’s central region has had a serious impact on the health of local residents. The 199 Police Hospital, in coordination with the Da Nang Trade Union, recently organised free health check-ups and provided medicine for local people in need, in a bid to ease their pain and suffering.
The Ho Chi Minh City Communist Youth Union will present more than 2,000 gifts worth over 500 million VND (21,600 USD) to disadvantaged local children on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Most communes in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau have been hooked up to the national power grid, but some in far-flung areas are still without a reliable supply of electricity. Our report from Tua Sin Chai commune in Sin Ho district.
Donors in the central city of Hue have set up a 'rice ATM' in the city to help underprivileged people that have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Republic of Korea's CJ Group on December 27 granted scholarships to 100 underprivileged students who achieved good results in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong.
Ho Chi Minh City has built or repaired nearly 9,000 houses for poor households since 2011, the year the Prime Minister changed the housing policy, according to the city's People's Committee.
As many as 36 buses departed Ho Chi Minh City to carry over 1,500 poor workers free of charge to their hometowns for the traditional Tet (Lunar New Year) festival on January 30.
Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong called on agencies, organisations, businesses and people from all social strata to join hands in supporting disadvantaged people, while addressing an event in Hanoi on January 13.
The Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRCS) will launch a programme entitled “The Strength of Humanity” on January 13 to call for support to the underprivileged ahead of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival, according to VRCS Vice President Tran Thi Hong Anh.
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.
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).
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 National Fund for Vietnamese Children received nearly 96 billion VND (4.2 million USD) to support underprivileged children during the 11th Spring for Children programme in Hanoi on January 21.
Pop singer My Tam and three overseas Vietnamese, Thanh Ha, Elvis Phuong and Dinh Nguyen, will join a live concert to raise funds for underprivileged children with cancer in Da Nang.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam spoke highly of assistance of the SOS Children's Villages International for Vietnam in raising, caring for, and educating children with underprivileged backgrounds.
At the end of the school day, students at The Sacred Heart in HCM City often dash home without taking the time to change their uniforms or even take a shower so they can help their parents sell lottery tickets or cassava.
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