Organisation helps tighten friendship between Vinh Long, RoK
The Union of Friendship Organisations of Vinh Long province and the Korean Society for Service in Asia (KSSA) jointly organised a ceremony on December 6 to mark the latter’s 25-year operations in the Mekong Delta province.
Representatives of Korean Society for Service in Asia present scholarships to poor students with good learning performances in Vinh Long (Photo: VNA)
Vinh Long (VNA) – The Union of Friendship Organisations of Vinh Longprovince and the Korean Society for Service in Asia (KSSA) jointly organised a ceremony on December 6 to mark the latter’s 25-year operations in theMekong Delta province.
Addressing the event, Vice Chairwoman of the provincialPeople’s Committee Nguyen Thi Quyen Thanh said that KSSA is the firstnon-governmental organisation (NGO) of the Republic of Korea (RoK) coming toVietnam after the two countries set up diplomatic ties in 1992. It isalso one of the foreign NGOs having the longest and most active operations in VinhLong.
She lauded the contributions of KSSA projects and programmes to improvinglocal people's life quality, especially those in remote rural areas, and to the province’ssocio-economic development.
Vinh Long province hoped that KSSA will continue sponsoringhumanitarian projects in the province, and acting as a bridge to call forforeign NGOs and RoK businesses to the locality.
Over the past 25 years, the Korean organisation has helpedbuild 2,000 charitable houses and 20 bridges, and construct rural roads;provided hundreds of gifts and scholarships to poor students; and called onKorean doctors to provide medical check-ups and medicine for people in remote and isolated areas.
On this occasion, it also presented 10 houses to local poorhouseholds, and 30 bikes and 35 scholarships to poor students with goodlearning performances in Vinh Long./.
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Representatives of Korean Society for Service in Asia present scholarships to poor students with good learning performances in Vinh Long (Photo: VNA) 
