The Compassion Flower (TCF) of the US provided an aid package worth over 1.82 billion VND (78,351 USD) to help improve the quality of the living conditions of the beneficiaries.

The funding will focus on providing public health care services, scholarships to poor students and activities to protect the environment.

Giving free check-ups to people in Thua Thien - Hue.

Meanwhile, the Aid To Children Without Parent (ACWP) organisation of the US provided a non-refundable aid worth 31,710 USD to support orphans and disadvantaged children.

The project’s activities include giving free check-ups to about over 1,000 locals, providing hepatitis B vaccination to 300 primary schools and orthopedic surgeries to 15 disabled students; granting scholarships to 70 students, and supporting universal primary education for 260 other pupils.

The Giving It Back To Kids (GIBTK) organisation of the US through the provincial Association for Disabled and Orphanage provided 678 new wheelchairs worth over 37,317 USD for poor disabled people in the locality.

Another 90-million-VND aid project for the locality was funded by Phuc’s Fond of Norway. It benefits disadvantaged households in A Ngo commune of A Luoi district, Thuy Bang commune in Huong Thuy district and those in Phu Loc and Nam Dong districts.

Photo exhibition raises funds for poor children

The annual exhibition entitled ‘Anh Sang Tu Tam’ (Light of Kindness) is taking place in Hanoi to raise funds for poor children.

Helping with livelihoods for poor women

(BGO) - Helping disadvantaged women with jobs and stable income to early escape poverty is the goal that the Women's Unions of all levels in Tan Yen district (Bac Giang province) set out in 2019. The material support, the provision of livelihood means, and the establishment of models and clubs to support women to escape poverty have been effectively implemented by many grassroots-level unions.

Vietnam cueist retains global rank despite poor World Cup show

Tran Quyet Chien is still among top three cueists in the world after early exit from a recent world tournament.

3,000 poor people and policy beneficiaries receive free health checkup and medicine

(BGO) – The Red Cross Society in the northern province of Bac Giang and VinGroup’s Kind-Heart Foundation on May 13 co-hosted a programme to provide free health examination, consultation and medicine in Son Dong district to respond to the Humanitarian Month in 2019.

More than 400 tonnes of rice supplied for poor people in Yen Bai

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc decided to provide 404 tonnes of rice from national reserves for the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai during this year’s between-crop period.

Source: VNA