Ngan gave 100 gift packages to cancer children living in difficult circumstances in the hospital during a charity event, namely “Xuan yeu thuong, Tet cho benh nhan ung thu” (Spring of love, Tet for cancer patients), in the hope of bringing them a warmer Tet. Speaking at the event, she praised the effectiveness of the Supportive Fund for Cancer Patients – Bright Future which has acted as a bridge for love and sharing between donors and impoverished patients for the last six years. The NA leader also spent time at the bedside of children in critical condition, embracing them and telling them to keep faith and fight cancer. NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Nhan presents gifts to chidren with cancer The Supportive Fund for Cancer Patients, found by the Ministry of Health, has teamed up with Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper to hold the charity event since 2013. Since then, the fund has provided over VND 18 billion in financial support for more than 19,200 poor cancer patients and given free cancer screenings for about 70,000 people. On the same day, President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee Tran Thanh Man presented gifts and extended Tet greetings to officers and soldiers at Nhon Hung Border Guard Station in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang. He also visited and gave Tet gifts to 100 state policy beneficiary families and poor households in the districts of Tri Ton and Tinh Bien that share border with Cambodia and are home to a… [Read full story]
State Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan on January 6 presented lunar New Year gifts to more than 500 poor children and orphans in central Danang city. She also visited social policy beneficiaries and a number of military units in the city, presenting Tet gifts. While talking to navy forces in Danang's zone C, the State leader acknowledged their achievements in protecting the nation's islands and water territory, as well as rescue work at sea.... [read more]
The Youth Union Branches of the Police Department for Administration on social order, the Political Affairs Division; the Youth Union Branch, Women’s Union of the Provincial Police Hospital have coordinated with Phu Yen Radio and Television Station to hold the program "Volunteer Spring-affectionate Tet Festival" in Xuan Quang 1 commune (Dong Xuan district). The provincial police’s youth unionists presenting Tet gifts to disadvantaged children in Xuan Quang 1 commune Here, the youth union members have done lots of meaningful things, including: planting 50 trees, embellishing the site and graves at the communal cemetery of martyrs; free haircuts for children; allocating…... [read more]
Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee (PCC) and Head of the PCC’s Inspection Commission Tran Quoc Vuong, visited policy beneficiary families, the poor and ethnic minority groups in the northern moutainous province of Yen Bai. The Politburo member extended his New Year’s greetings and presented 100 Tet gifts to policy beneficiaries, veteran revolutionaries and poor households from ethnic minority backgrounds in Y Can Commune (Tran Yen District) and Quang Minh Commune (Van Yen District). He expressed his pleasure at the efforts made by the local governments to care for social welfare and positive changes in building new-style rural…... [read more]
NDO/VNA – President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan presented 200 Tet gifts worth VND200 million(US$8,996) to impoverished households in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh on January 31. The VFF leader conveyed New Year greetings to the local people, saying that overthe past few years, the front and the Vietnam Red Cross have called on organisations and individuals to provide financial support to help poor people build houses. He hoped that in the coming time, disadvantaged households will make a concerted effort to escape poverty. On the same day, he attended the opening…... [read more]
Chairman of Hanoi’s People’s Committee Nguyen The Thao presented nearly 250 Tet gift packages to poor and policy beneficiary families during his working visit to My Duc district on January 29. My Duc is Hanoi’s farthest outlying district neighouring Hoa Binh province with 70 percent of its population from the Muong ethnic minority group and 45 percent being Catholic followers. Hanoi has decided to earmark 230 billion VND for gifts to disadvantaged people on the occasion of the upcoming Lunar New Year festival, Thao revealed at the meeting with locals. He said the capital has recorded higher economic growth over…... [read more]
