More donations from Hanoi for flood victims in central region
The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committee of Hanoi has received donations totalling more than 59 billion VND (2.5 million USD) for flood victims in the central region since October 13.
The donation reception event of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Hanoi on November 3 (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - The VietnamFatherland Front (VFF) Committee of Hanoi has received donations totalling morethan 59 billion VND (2.5 million USD) for flood victims in the central regionsince October 13.
The sum includes over 15.3 billion VND in cashand 600 million VND in kind presented to the committee’s standing board onNovember 3.
Deputy Chief of the Office of Hanoi’scoordinating board for the new-style countryside building programme, Nguyen VanChi, said that from October 30 to November 3 the office received 750 millionVND from philanthropists in support of flood-hit residents in the centralregion.
It will coordinate with the VFF Committee ofHanoi and benefactors to visit and offer essential goods and farming materialsto hard-hit localities, to help them address the consequences and resumeagricultural production, he noted.
On October 19 and 29, the committee delivered alarge amount of aid, including goods and medicine, to the central region.
As part of the 17th municipal Party Congress,the city’s VFF Committee on October 13 launched a fund-raising campaign to callfor support for compatriots in the central region. As much as 312 million VNDwas donated.
On the same day, the committee earmarked 7billion VND from Hanoi’s relief fund for hardest-hit provinces, including 2billion VND each for Thua Thien-Hue and Quang Tri and 1 billion VND each for QuangNam, Quang Binh, and Ha Tinh.
Since late September, 235 people in the central region havebeen listed as dead or missing by consecutivestorms and floods, which have also caused an estimated economic loss of about 17 trillion VND, according to the Government’s report to the NationalAssembly on November 2./.
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The donation reception event of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Hanoi on November 3 (Photo: VNA) 
