Vice President’s humanitarian activities in Quang Nam
Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh presented houses and gifts to policy beneficiaries and poor students in the central province of Quang Nam on June 1.
Quang Nam (VNA) – Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinhpresented houses and gifts to policy beneficiaries and poor students in thecentral province of Quang Nam on June 1.
She granted a token of eight houses, each worth 560 millionVND (24,300 USD), to poor households in Dai Loc district; 50 gifts to needyfamilies, each valued at 2 million VND; 20 bicycles to poor students withoutstanding academic performance; and 60 gifts to children, each 300,000 VND.
At a humanitarian fair held by the Red Cross Society of DaiLoc district, Thinh offered 300 vouchers, each worth 500,000 VND, to localresidents.
Chairman of the provincial Red Cross Society Le Tan Minhsaid during May – the month of humanitarian acts, the local chapters raisedover 5,500 gifts to grant to poor households hit by COVID-19, more than 15,000masks and 200 anti-droplet face shields to front-line workers in the fight.
Via six humanitarian fairs, about 600 vouchers weregiven to poor families while chapters called on philanthropists to build 25houses and many toilets, as well as support over 1,000 humanitarian centres./.
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At the event (Photo: VNA) 
