Vietnamese people living in Malaysia's Johor present cash and necessities to flood-hit people in central Vietnam. (Photo: VNA)Hanoi(VNA) – Vietnamese Embassies in Malaysia and the United Kingdom and localVietnamese societies there have been busy over the last several days raisingfunds for flood-stricken people in the central region.
As of October 27,Vietnamese people and associations in Malaysia had raised a total of 600million VND (25,870 USD) in donations which will be sent to Vietnam to helpaffected people, particularly poor households, to recover from the naturaldisaster.
Vu Duc Minh,Second Secretary for community affairs at the Embassy of Vietnam, saidVietnamese expats in Malaysia have regularly organised charity events to help those in need in their homeland. Since the embassy called fordonations, not only staff of Vietnamese missions but also Vietnameseassociations have actively joined the fund-raising campaign, he added.
Despite theresurgence of COVID-19 in Malaysia causing many challenges to Vietnamese expats,they wanted to share burdens with their flood-hit fellows in the centralprovinces, according to vice chairman of the Vietnam-Malaysia BusinessAssociation (VMBIZ) Nguyen Thi Thanh Van. It is like an “order from the heart,”she said.
In the UK, theEmbassy of Vietnam has coordinated with the representative office of nationalflag carrier Vietnam Airlines and the association of Vietnamese golf players inthe European nation to host a charity golf tournament to call for donations forthe flood survivors.
A paintingdonated by the embassy has also been auctioned to raise funds for the victims.
A total of 9,000GBP (11,650 USD) has beenmobilised from the events.
Prior to that,the Vietnamese Embassy in the UK on October 23 launched an appeal to call fordonations for the flood victims with more than 5,000 GBP donated./.
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