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Over 7,000 disabled to join 20th camp festival in Ho Chi Minh City
Updated: 08:32, 23/11/2019
More than 7,000 people with disabilities from Ho Chi Minh City and 16 southern cities and provinces will join the 20th camp festival in Ho Chi Minh City on November 30.
During a press conference on November 22, a representative of the municipal Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs said the festival is meant to celebrate the 37th anniversary of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (December 3) and the 20–year journey of the charity festival.
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Participants will have a chance to play folk games, enjoy puppet shows and free lunch buffet, read books, as well as visit landmark destinations at Suoi Tien Cultural Theme Park.
A highlight of the event will be exchanges with outstanding citizens 2018.
The event costing over 2.5 billion VND (108,000 USD) will be funded by the park and philanthropists.
(BGO)
– “I will help others till the last day of my life” is the sharing and wish of
Nguyen Thi Nga (born in 1961) in An Chau town, Son Dong district (Bac Giang
province).
Around 12,000 runners will take part in the annual 19th Fun Run for Charity in Ho Chi Minh City on September 29, with an aim to raise VND1 billion for disadvantaged people throughout Vietnam.
Roughly VND945 billion (US$40.8 million) was raised for the charity programme “Joining hands for the poor" in 2018 by 261 kind-hearted businesses, units and individuals nationwide.
(BGO) - Regardless of
background, age and occupation; and operating voluntarily, in recent years,
charity associations, groups and clubs in Bac Giang province have appeared more
and more, thus spreading love in the community.
(BGO) – The Vietnam Red Cross Society
has launched the Humanitarian Month in 2019 themed “Connecting, sharing and
spreading” across the nation. In response, all levels of the Red Cross Society
(RCS) in the northern province of Bac Giang has implemented many activities to
boost up the charity campaign and support the needy people.
Source: VNA
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