More Vietnamese-origin people in Cambodia have received assistance under Phase 2 of an emergency aid programme for those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vietnamese-origin people in Phnom Penh receive aid on September 9 (Photo: VNA)
Phnom Penh (VNA) – More Vietnamese-origin people in Cambodia have receivedassistance under Phase 2 of an emergency aid programme for those affected bythe COVID-19 pandemic.
The Khmer -Vietnam Association and the Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia held an event topresent the aid in Phnom Penh capital on September 9.
The relief,including rice, mosquito nets, and cash, was handed over to 50 households ofVietnamese-origin people who represented 1,171 households in Phnom Penh benefitingfrom the programme, which also targets Khmer people, this time.
Among thebeneficiaries, there are 538 households that previously earned their livingfrom cage fish farming but were recently displaced.
Huynh Minh Phu, Chairman of the Khmer - Vietnam Association in Phnom Penh,said the life of Vietnamese-origin people has been hit hard by the COVID-19pandemic, but those who have to leave their houseboats for the mainland haveencountered even more hardships.
Leaders of the VietnameseEmbassy and the Khmer - Vietnam Association have been working to raisedonations to provide support, he added.
Apart from the targeted households in Phnom Penh, the embassy’scommunity support fund have also presented rice and medical supplies to morethan 650 others in Kampong Thom, Kampong Chhnang, Stung Treng, Prey Veng, andKampong Cham provinces, raising the number of beneficiary households in Phase 2to 1,821.
Over thelast two months, at the request of the Khmer - Vietnam Association’s chapters, thefund has also given food, medical supplies, and essential goods to over 800households in some areas affected by the pandemic in suchprovinces as Kandal, Siem Reap, Kampong Chhnang, and Prey Veng./.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia, in collaboration with the Cho Ray- Phnom Penh hospital and the Khmer-Vietnam association in Cambodia, on April 24, presented emergency relief aid to 350 households of the Vietnamese origin in Chbar Ampov district’s Champa pagoda area.
Close to 1,000 households of Cambodians of Vietnamese-origin have followed the Phnom Penh authorities’ June 2 notice on relocating floating houses and fish farming rafts along the Tonle Sap river in seven days.
The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) in Soc Trang province on June 18 granted 200 million VND (8,690 USD) to the Khmer-Vietnamese Association to support Khmer people of Vietnamese origin in Cambodia affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Embassy of Vietnam in Cambodia on July 19 handed over a cash donation worth 85,000 USD to diplomatic missions and Khmer-Vietnam Association in Cambodia to aid Vietnamese-Cambodians affected by COVID-19.
The Vietnamese Consulate General in Preah Sihanouk and the Khmer-Vietnam Association in the province on July 29 presented gifts to 150 Vietnamese Cambodian households and 20 Cambodian ones that are living in difficulties amidst the complex developments of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Vietnamese-origin people in Phnom Penh receive aid on September 9 (Photo: VNA) 
