Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs will increase financial support for poor people and social policy beneficiaries on the occasion of the Lunar New Year 2016.
Tet gifts come to locals in Can Gio district (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi 🐼Minh City’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs will increase financial support for poor people and social policy beneficiaries on the occasion of the Lunar New Year 2016.
People who have significant contributions to the national revolution including senior revolutionists, Vietnamese heroic mothers, wounded soldiers and Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victims will receive between 1.06 million VND (46.64 USD) and 2.6 million VND (114.4 USD) in cash.
The city sets to grant 950,000 VND (41.8 USD) to former political prisoners and 1.5 million VND (66 USD) to families of soldiers doing their missions in Truong Sa (Spartly) archipelago.
Those enjoying social protection and old people aged above 80 years will get an allowance of 950,000 VND for Tet holiday.
Vice President of the Ho Chi Minh City’s Red Cross Society Nguyen Binh Tru said the municipal People’s Committee has launched a campaign to take care of poor people and AO victims across the city in 2016.
In addition to presenting 62,000 gift packages to underprivileged households, AO victims and poor patients under treatment at hospitals, the Society will provide 45 cows worth over 1.35 billion VND (59,400 USD) for poor farmers in Binh Chanh, Cu Chi, Hoc Mon, and Nha Be districts as part of the “cow-bank” programme.
It will also coordinate with the Asia Commercial Bank (ACB) in Vietnam to give free health check-ups, treatment and medicine to the needy in Cu Chi district as well as in Binh Phuoc, Binh Thuan, and Phu Yen provinces.
From January 10 to February 5, the city’s youth union will host a number of activities to bring a warm Tet holiday to disadvantaged children.-VNA
On the precipice of the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday, numerous organisations have visited and presented gifts to disadvantaged people to ensure a warm and enjoyable festival for all.
A variety of activities have been organised to warm the hearts of underprivileged people across the country on the occasion of the quickly-approaching traditional Lunar New Year (Tet), the biggest holiday in Vietnam.
A delegation from the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) headed by Deputy General Director Dinh Dang Quang has presented a house and Lunar New Year (Tet) gifts to ethnic minority people in the central province of Quang Binh.
Politburo member and Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City’s Party Committee Le Thanh Hai visited and extended Lunar New Year (Tet) wishes to border guards and impoverished residents in coastal Can Gio district of the city on February 11.
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs will submit a plan to present Lunar New Year gifts to people making contributions to the national revolution to President for his approval.
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Tet gifts come to locals in Can Gio district (Photo: VNA)
