Sunday, 15/12/2019 16:56 (GMT+7)
1.5 billion VND was raised at the 12th Sunflower Festival held in Ho Chi Minh city for children with cancer on December 15th.
People participated in the charity walk at the festival (Photo: tuoitre.vn)
According to the Vietnam News Agency, the festival is among activities to mark the 12th year of the “Thuy’s Dream” program held by the Vietnam Youth Union in coordination with the Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper.
The Thuy’s Dream program for children with cancer is named after Le Thanh Thuy - a high school girl known and admired for her long fight against bone cancer prior to her death on November 2, 2007.
More than 3,000 people participated in the charity walk at the festival. For each participant, the Nutifood company donated 50,000 VND to help children cancer patients.
The program also presented 160 scholarships to children who returned to school after treatment, and 1,000 gifts to children who are receiving treatment at 10 hospitals in HCM city, Da Nang, Thua Thien Hue and Hanoi.
People can participate in the fund raising campaign via Facebook by drawing or making paper sunflowers with messages of wishes for children with cancer written on the works, before uploading the photos of them on Facebook with the hashtags #ngayhoihoahuongduong2019.
After 12 editions, the “Thuy’s Dream” program has raised more than 45 billion VND for children with cancer./.
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