Ho Chi Minh City youth conclude successful summer volunteer campaign
Running from July 12 to August 16, a summer volunteer campaign in Ho Chi Minh City drew the participation of nearly 400,000 young people, who contributed to the campaign’s success in various fields.
At the launching ceremony of the summer volunteer campaign in Ho Chi Minh City (Source: //tuoitre.vn/)
HCM City (VNA) – Running from July 12 to August16, a summer volunteer campaign in Ho Chi Minh City drew the participation ofnearly 400,000 young people, who contributed to the campaign’s success invarious fields.
Along with activities to clean roads and canals across thecity, the campaign built and repaired 155 houses for the needy, whileconstructing 22 rural bridges, and contributing to keeping traffic safety inmajor city streets.
The campaign raised about 10 billion VND (433,374 USD) tosupport more than 30,000 needy people and welfare beneficiaries. It presentednearly 1,000 scholarships worth nearly 1 billion VND to poor children, whileproviding more than 2.2 billion VND to 45 youngsters for business start-up.
Meanwhile, free health check-up and medicine were given to35,000 locals. Volunteer youth donated 13,500 units of blood during thecampaign.
Young volunteers also held various summer activities forchildren, and provided assistance to nearly 73,000 contestants participating inthe high-school graduation exams.
During the campaign, more than 300 outstanding volunteeryoungsters were admitted to the Party.
Particularly, this year, the first-ever online walk programmewas held on the MOMO e-wallet platform, attracting 75,000 participants. Nearly7 billion steps were gathered, helping raise nearly 7.2 billion VND for ascholarship fund to support poor students.
Throughout the campaign, nearly 20,000 members of the Ho ChiMinh Communist Youth Union and young people benefitted from science-technologytransfer, employment consultation and job placement services./.
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At the launching ceremony of the summer volunteer campaign in Ho Chi Minh City (Source: //tuoitre.vn/) 
