Viet Nam Human Rights
Red Cross launches humanitarian month
6/5/19
The Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRCS)’s chapter in Hanoi will strive to provide support for 7,000-10,000 disadvantaged people under the 2019 Humanitarian Month which was launched in the capital city on May 5.
The launch of the month, themed “Connecting, Sharing, and Spreading”, is part of activities to mark the Red Cross and Red Crescent Day (May 8).
At the launching ceremony, Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Ngo Van Quy affirmed that Hanoi always attaches much importance to social welfare work, and taking care of the policy beneficiary families, as well as impoverished and vulnerable people inside and outside the city.
He particularly hailed the contributions made by the VRSC’s Hanoi chapter to the building of houses for people who rendered services to the nation, and poor households in 2017 and 2018.
He took the occasion to ask competent authorities to pay more attention to the humanitarian work, and create favourable conditions for the operation of the VRSC at all levels.
At the ceremony, the VRSC’s Hanoi chapter received more than 15.3 billion VND (661,600 USD) donated by benefactors, enterprises and businessmen to help the needy.
An SMS campaign was also launched at the event to mobilise financial sources to support the poor in border areas.
Meanwhile, The 2019 Month for Humanitarian Activities has been launched in the central province of Ha Tinh. After the launching ceremony, the provincial chapter of the Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRC) coordinated with the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union of Ha Tinh to organise a voluntary blood donation day, attracting a large number of local youths. As many as over 300 units of blood were collected during the day.
According to the VRC chapter in Ha Tinh, the province has 26,000 disadvantaged households, nearly 25,000 near-poor households, over 7,400 Agent Orange/dioxin victim, and thousands of disable children, blind people and those with heart-related diseases.
Various meaningful activities were organised in the framework of the event, including handover of houses, wheelchairs, bicycles and health insurance cards to disadvantaged families and students, and honouring humanitarian organisations and clubs for the contributions to the community./.
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The month focuses on activities to build houses and provide free medical check-ups and medicines, and livelihood solutions for poor people, along with blood donation.
Such strong results reflect the mutual solidarity and love of the Vietnamese people, contributing to promoting and widely spreading the fine traditional and humanitarian values of the nation.
The month is expected to contribute to raising public awareness and encouraging kindness among the public, as well as promoting responsibility of local authorities, party committees and social organizations in the humanitarian work.
This kind of activities will push human rights among the people.
Numerous activities to support disadvantaged people across the nation will be launched in the 2019 Month for Humanitarian Activities.
This year’s programme, themed “Connecting, Sharing, and Spreading”, will see the Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRCS) play a key role in mobilising and connecting millions of people to share with and provide opportunities for disadvantaged people.
It aims to further enhance public awareness and strengthen the Party’s leadership in and the State’s management over humanitarian works. It is also designed to deepen and further spread positive values and traditions of humanity amongst Vietnamese people.
This campaign has received great attention from the Party, Government and authorities at all levels. Many initiatives have been introduced and developed sustainably. The campaign has also attracted the participation of a large number of organisations and people.
It is a consistent policy of the Party and State to care for the poor, AO victims, and the more vulnerable subjects in society, in order to ensure that no one is left behind in the development process.
The event would develop a regular mechanism to multiply community strength to help poor and disadvantaged people in Việt Nam.
Humanitarian activities are the responsibility of not only the Vietnam Red Cross but also all-level administrations, businesses, organisations and people from all social strata to engage in this work.
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