The National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVC) has granted 148 scholarships worth $20,000 to 148 children from Nguyen Dinh Chieu and Xa Dan secondary schools. The scholarships, funded by Hong Kong’s Sun Wah Group, were given to disabled children...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi has approved VND1.5 trillion ($76.92 million) to upgrade 5,523 downgraded classrooms, state media reported Oct 14, citing an official. The city’s move is aimed to meet the rising demand for better schools after its...
See reports on the October 2010 floods in central Vietnam in the situation reports listed below. For future report updates go to the Disaster Management Working Group section of this website at http://ngocentre.org.vn/dmwg and check the Publications...
Authorities of Vietnam’s central province of Quang Nam have issued a directive to ask relevant agencies of conduct a general survey on poor households across the locality between Oct 1 and Nov 31. The move is aimed to build software managing poor...
Asia Commercial Bank (ACB) has coordinated with the Ho Chi Minh City Red Cross Society to provide free-of-charge medical checkups and medicines for more than 300 locals. The program benefited the poor in Binh Phuoc province, especially cataract...
Authorities of Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An have spent more than VND40 billion to build 950 houses and four other construction works for the poor. Beneficiaries are poor people and ethnic minority in the mountainous district of Tuong Duong...
Vietnam’s Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap has completed construction of 4,060 houses totaling VND81 billion ($4.15 million) for local poor people. Of the sum, VND20 billion was mobilized from the relatives of the poor houses, VND16 billion from...
The 'Day for the Poor' campaign will be held on October 17 as one event in the Action Month for the Poor which was officially launched by the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee in Hanoi yesterday. Politburo member and Permanent Deputy Prime...
Authorities of Ba Che district, Vietnam’s central province of Quang Ninh have started building Dap Thanh bridge with a total investment of VND6.22 billion. The bridge will have 110 meters in length, 2.5 meters in width, aiming to facilitate...
Vietnam’s Central Highlands of Lam Dong has opened vocational training courses for Co Ho and Chu Ru ethnic people, the Van Hoa newspapers reported on Oct 11. Each training course lasts from 20 days to 40 days according to each locality and the...
