Ho Chi Minh City helps Khanh Hoa Province recover from floods

Ho Chi Minh City’s authority and people have been deployed forces, vehicles and several support activities to help Khanh Hoa Province overcome damages caused by the recent severe flooding.

A delegation from Ho Chi Minh City handing over relief goods to Khanh Hoa Provincial Military Command

Heartfelt meals for flood-stricken people

The Social Charity Board of Ho Chi Minh City Buddhist Sangha in association with Ho Chi Minh City youth volunteer force has been organizing field kitchens to provide meals for people in the flooded areas. In addition to the main kitchen located at Nha Trang University, there are 2 more field kitchens in Dien Dien Commune and 1 kitchen in former Phu Yen Province. The field kitchen at Nha Trang University has drawn hundreds of volunteers, who are youth volunteers, students, local people, monks, nuns, and Buddhist followers in Ho Chi Minh City and Khanh Hoa Province. All the volunteers are happy to lend a helping hand to support the people in flooded areas. The kitchen serves both vegetarian and meat-based meals. These kitchens will be maintained until the lives of the local residents return to normal.

On the same day, a relief convoy from Ho Chi Minh City transporting 100 tonnes of goods and essential supplies, including rice, instant noodles, bottled water, blankets, mosquito nets, and 7,000 life jackets, arrived in Khanh Hoa. The aid was gathered at Khanh Hoa Provincial Military Command to prepare for distribution to the people in need.

Cooking rice at the field kitchen at Nha Trang University

Whole-hearted support from the city named after Uncle Ho

In response to the Politburo’s mandate to mitigate damages caused by floods in central Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City has been tasked with providing direct assistance to disaster-hit people in Khanh Hoa Province. Ho Chi Minh City swiftly formed a relief delegation, headed by Nguyen Phuoc Loc, deputy secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee and president of Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee, and immediately traveled to Khanh Hoa to provide aid and ensure timely support for the local people. Initially, the relief team cooperates with relating units to provide complimentary meals; give gifts; offer free medical examinations, treatment and medicine to the affected communes and wards; reinforce schools; repair telecommunication stations to ensure communication services; etc.

These support activities aim to provide timely aid to help the authority and people in Khanh Hoa overcome the severe consequences of the natural disaster, soon return to normal, spread the strength of the community, and show social responsibilities and affection of the people in the city named after Uncle Ho towards the people in the central region in general and the people in Khanh Hoa in particular.

Preparing meals for flood-stricken people

Up to now, the field kitchens have supplied approximately 15,000 meals per day. The doctors and nurses have offered medical examinations and emergency aid and provided complimentary medicine to the people in need to prevent the risk of post-flood epidemics.

Additionally, the technical teams from Ho Chi Minh City are ready to cooperate with local authorities to reinforce essential school facilities and repair broadcasting stations in order to ensure smooth communication for directing relief efforts. Besides the aforementioned support, Ho Chi Minh City also offered a financial support of VND50 billion to Khanh Hoa. 

C. VAN - P. HIEU
Translated by H.N