Red Cross Society urged to renew to further support for disadvantaged
Red Cross Society urged to renew to further support for disadvantaged people
President Tran Dai Quang asked the Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRCS) to improve communication work and renew way of working in order to mobilise more support for disadvantaged groups.
President Tran Dai Quang (second from left) at the charity art event. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – President Tran Dai Quang asked the Vietnam Red CrossSociety (VRCS) to improve communication work and renew way of working in orderto mobilise more support for disadvantaged groups while attending a charity artperformance held in Hanoi on January 7.
Social security policy and humanitarian activities have been among top prioritiesof the Party and State for years, President Quang said in his speech, highlightingefforts made by the VRCS to promote charity campaigns to take care of the poor,natural calamity victims and other vulnerable and disadvantaged groups insociety.
He singled out the “Cow Bank” project andthe campaign “Tet for the poor and AO victims” as examples of standoutinitiatives of the organisation to help the needy.
The President thanked individuals, organisations, enterprises and benefactorsboth inside and outside the countries for accompanying the VRCS’s activities.
The “Tet for the poor and AO victims”, which started in 1999, has broughtmillions of gifts to impoverished households to welcome warm Tet holidays. In thepast five years, the VRCS has presented 10 million of Tet gifts worth more than3.46 trillion VND (152.6 million USD) to the needy.
At the art charity show, the VRCS launched “Tet for the poor and AO victims2018” campaign, aiming to mobilise support from local and internationalcommunities to provide at least 2 million Tet gifts to poor and AO families nationwide.
The society also joined hands with the National Humanitarian Portal 1400 tokick off an SMS campaign to mobilise funds for the disadvantaged. People cansupport the campaign by texting TET to 1409 from December 27, 2017 to February24, 2018. Each mobile text message will contribute 20,000 VND (0.85 USD) to thefund.-VNA
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President Tran Dai Quang (second from left) at the charity art event. (Photo: VNA) 
