Latest Foreign Assistance Briefs

- Japanese Cecile Company has donated $42,500 to provide two years’ worth of free meals for poor patients at the Danang Cancer Hospital. The donation will help fund between 100 to 200 rations of food at the hospital’s charity kitchen each day, said Deputy chairwoman of the Da Nang Association to Support Poor and Disadvantaged Women and Children Nguyen Thi Van Lan. The company representative director Masataka Ueda also presented gifts to 40 in-patients during a visit on Tuesday. The hospital, which was inaugurated last month, has received VND600 billion ($28.6 million) from foreign and domestic donors. (Vietnam News Feb 7)
- Many enterprises have started to donate gifts to poor households in areas where they are operating to give those in need of a helping hand a cozier Tet. LOTTEMart in association with HCMC Red Cross are giving 4,000 gifts worth over VND1 billion to poor households in 16 districts in HCMC until Wednesday. Previously, supermarket chain Big C and Unilever Vietnam granted 2,100 gifts worth VND630 million to poor households in 21 provinces and cities nationwide where there are Big C supermarkets. The annual charity program will last until Wednesday. There are also 1,350 gifts given to poor households in HCMC and Binh Duong Province under a program of Thien Hoa Interior Furniture and Electronics Center. In addition, Thien Hoa also covers bus rides taking employees and their relatives back to their home towns at the Tet holiday. (thesaigontimes.vn Feb 5)