The support was worth over 4.24 trillion VND (173.7 million USD) in total, including nearly 1.8 trillion VND from non-State sources.

The joy of workers at Ecopark construction site in Van Giang District, Hung Yen Province when receiving gifts ahead of the Tet holiday.

According to the VGCL, on the occasion of Tet 2024, the Vietnam General Confereration of Labour (VGCL) and trade unions at all levels coordinated with the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee and agencies to assist 248 delegations from the Party, the State, the National Assembly, and the Government to deliver Tet gifts to 32,200 workers.

Trade unions at all levels have organised 14,664 Tet programmes, attracting over 3 million members and workers. More than 1.8 million trade union members and workers received gifts worth over 1 trillion VND at the programmes.

According to VGCL Vice Chairman Phan Van Anh, diverse activities were organised for workers including five-fruit tray displays, chung cake-making competitions, lucky draws, folk games, legal advice, zero-dong booths, and cultural and art activities.

In addition, localities, units and organisations offered scholarships to workers’ children, and disadvantaged children.

Workers who work far from home were given free travel tickets to return home for the Tet celebration.

More than 162,800 trade union members and workers were given train/bus/plane ticket support worth nearly 76 billion VND. Trade unions at all levels organised and coordinated with agencies, units and employers to provide 3,382 free bus trips to bring over 112,000 workers to their hometowns.

Gifts to be presented to revolutionary contributors for Tet holiday

The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs has sent an official dispatch to the People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities to provide instructions on the President-signed decision on presenting gifts for revolutionary contributors for the upcoming Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday 2024.

HCMC to spend $41M on Tet gifts, citizen support

Ho Chi Minh City authorities will spend over VND1 trillion ($41 million) to support people with cash and gifts for the Lunar New Year (Tet), the municipal labor department said Thursday.

Vietnam women's football team give coach retirement gift

Vietnam's national women's football squad signed a souvenir jersey and gifted it to their head coach Mai Duc Chung in a teary-eyed parting moment before his retirement this week.

PM presents Mid-Autumn-Festival gifts to child patients

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on September 28 visited and presented gifts to children with disadvantaged backgrounds being treated at the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT) on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on September 29 this year.

5,800 gifts presented to needy students by women’s union in Bac Giang

BAC GIANG - In order to encourage orphans and needy children on the new-school year occasion, the women’s unions at all levels in Bac Giang province have launched the peak time of the “Accompany children to school” programme.

Source: VNA