They have called for support from non-governmentalorganisations, businesses and philanthropists to offer cash and deposit booksto tens of thousands of people living in need, wheelchairs to 63 people withdisabilities, 85 bicycles to poor students and tens of breeding cows to thoseliving in mountainous areas, and build 12 charity homes.
In order to improve the capacity of coping with naturaldisasters and adapting to climate change, the provincial Red Cross Society partneredwith the provincial Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention andControl, Search and Rescue, and Save the Children organisation in Vietnam toconduct a drill on evacuating people in flood in Duy Xuan district and hold atraining course on disaster risk and drowning first aid to thousands of localstudents.
Chairman of the provincial Red Cross Society Le Tan Minhsaid its chapters will effectively step up the campaign “Each unit, individualwith a humanitarian address”, a charity movement on the occasion of the Day ofInvalids and Martyrs (July 27), and the programme “Cow bank – Joining effortwith the poor in mountainous areas in new rural development”.
The agency is accelerating the construction of 80 new housesfor households regularly hit by flooding funded by the United NationsDevelopment Programme. It will also work closely with the American Red Cross toconduct the second stage of a project on enhancing resilience to naturaldisasters in central Vietnam in several wards of Tam Ky city.-VNA