Poor children in border and remote areas in Long An and Dak Lak received support during charitable events on June 10-11. (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) –Poor children and families in border and remote areas in the Mekong Deltaprovince of Long An and the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak receivedsupport during charitable events on June 10-11.
The southernrepresentative office of Vietnam News Agency and the non-profit,non-governmental organisation Share Your Love offered free health check-ups andmedicines to impoverished households and policy beneficiary families living inthe border commune of My Quy Tay, Duc Hue district, Long An.
Ten scholarships and 200 gifts worth nearly 350 million VND were also presentedto local children.
My Quy Tay commune,sharing border with Cambodia, is home to about 2,755 households, including 483poor and 132 policy beneficiary ones.
Meanwhile, on June 11,Dak Lak province partnered with the Ministry of Labour, Invalids, SocialAffairs, the Vietnam Bank for Social Policy and the VTV24 News Centre to organisethe programme “Cap La Yeu Thuong” (A pair of leaves for love), providingsupport for 66 children with difficulties, most of whom are from remote areasor ethnic minority groups.
Each will receive400,000 VND in monthly allowance from sponsors.
Some orphans were adopted at the event.-VNA
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