Tuesday, 13/06/2017 16:44 (GMT+7)
Ho Chi Minh city’s 6, 8 and Binh Tan district Red Cross chapters and Hung Vuong hospital on June 12th completed a social working trip in the mountainous district of Ia Pa in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai.
J’Rai ethnic minority people provided with presents (Photo: nhandan.com.vn)
During the trip, 500 poor people who are members of the local J’Rai ethnic minority were given free heart, cervical cancer, eye and tooth check-ups.
Mobilizing capital from sponsors, the delegation also presented gifts worth VND600,000-VND800,000 each, that are necessary goods, books and backpacks, rice and noodles, to over 500 poor families and beneficiaries’ families.
Over the past five years, the Ho Chi Minh city Red Cross has effectively carried out movements and programs, including the movement on giving Tet presents to poor people and Agent Orange victims, that presents 319,000 gifts across the city and other provinces; the cow bank program that provides 258 cows to disadvantaged families in Binh Chanh, Cu Chi, Hoc Mon and Nha Be districts; the payment of gratitude program that gives 40,000 presents to wounded soldiers’ and martyrs’ families, and Vietnamese heroic mothers.
In addition, the organization has mobilized capital to build 1,402 houses and repair 47 others for poor and beneficiaries’ families; provide flood and rain prevention measures to 575 houses; grant 21,000 scholarships and 5,231 wheelchairs; give funeral support to 3,330 disadvantaged people; give loan support to 2,568 people; build 237 bridges; upgrade 20 rural roads; and provide 13.8 million humanitarian rations of rice.
Notably, over 4.79 million people in remote and ethnic minority-inhabited regions have been provided with healthcare and medicine worth nearly VND158 billion./.