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At the meeting, delegates, children, and students offered incense in commemoration of President Ho Chi Minh and visited Ho Chi Minh City culture space at the headquarters of the city’s association of farmers. They were also entertained with special artistic performances by children from Phu Nhuan district’s culture center, watched a video of the association’s implementation of scholarship and sponsorship programs, and talked about students’ aspiration. Annually, Ho Chi Minh City’s Association of Farmers works with the Ho Chi Minh City Television to organize a New Year program to call on units, organizations, businesses, individuals, and benefactors to facilitate its social security activities. Notably, together with maintaining a scholarship program for students whose parents are the association’s poor and near-poor members, it has launched a sponsorship project for those whose parents or caregivers died due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The program has been carried out since 2021. In … [Read more...] about Meeting to present scholarships and sponsorship to students and orphans

At the meeting, Lieutenant General Le Quang Minh presented gifts of the Ministry of National Defense to the national contributors. Gen. Minh also underlined that over the past year, the whole military has effectively implemented the gratitude movements, calling for more resources to take care of national contributors. During the past ten years, the whole military has mobilized troops and others to contribute nearly VND 550 billion to the gratitude fund, built more than 7,000 gratitude houses, taken care of 2,879 heroic Vietnamese mothers; offered jobs to more than 420 children of severely-wounded soldiers at convalescent centers as well as wives and children of martyrs who laid down their lives while performing military-defense missions. It also presented nearly 6,000 savings books to policy beneficiaries, to name but a few. In 2022, the Ministry of National Defense decided to give financial support to build 95 houses, worth more than VND 6.6 billion, for policy beneficiaries and … [Read more...] about MND meets with national contributors from Kon Tum

The family, the school, and the community are the three main pillars of society that are conducive to developing healthy and happy children in the community. The launch ceremony of Action Month for Children in Hanoi 2023 with the theme “Joining hands to reduce harm to children” is held on May 29 at the Friendship Palace of Culture and Labour. The launching ceremony of “AAction Month for Children in Hanoi 2023” takes place today, May 19. Photo: Pham Hung/ The Hanoi Times The ceremony was attended by Nguyen Thi Tuyen, Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee, city leaders, and 500 children representing more than 1.9 million living in the capital. According to Vu Thu Ha, Vice Chairwoman of the Hanoi City People's Committee, the Action Month for Children is one of Hanoi's action programs to concretize Uncle Ho's teaching, "For the sake of ten years, we cultivate trees; for the sake of a hundred years, we cultivate … [Read more...] about Hanoi launches Action Month for Children 2023

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh presents gifts to teachers and students of SOS Hermann Gmeiner School. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on May 30 visited educational institutions for disadvantaged children in Hanoi on the occasion of International Children’s Day (June 1) and Action Month for Children. At the SOS Hermann Gmeiner School, established in 1994 with its construction funded by the SOS Children’s Village, Chinh presented gifts to the school and its outstanding students. The school was named after Austrian philanthropist Hermann Gmeiner – the founder of the SOS Children’s Village, which is home to underprivileged children. It provides primary and secondary education for children in the SOS Children’s Village Vietnam, those belonging to poor households and other vulnerable children. The government leader also made a field trip to a centre for integration education development under the National College for Education, which admits more … [Read more...] about Prime Minister visits educational institutions for disadvantaged children