Humanitarian assistance in sustainable way

The Steering Board of the campaign “Each organization or individual is attached with one humanitarian address” has just issued an action plan 2022 with specific criteria and approaches focusing on effective and sustainable humanitarian assistance.

 

Striving to reach out to at least 1,100 humanitarian addresses

 

In 2021, Covid-19 pandemic impacted and slowed down the progress of humanitarian assistance. Based on the actual situations of localities, the steering board has promptly given humanitarian relief to the needy. In the year 2020-2021, the steering board at all levels provided aid totaling more than VND28.6 billion for 1,454 people and communities in need of support. Particularly, the provincial steering board supported 788 vulnerable people and communities with a total cost of VND26.5 billion; the steering board at district and town level helped 666 others with a total aid of more than VND2 billion.

 

 

 

 

In 2022, the provincial steering board has strived to manage and provide aid totaling VND3.3 billion for at least to 1,100 places. The aid include VND990 million funded by the Provincial Steering Board for 330 vulnerable people and communities. The district-level Steering Board supported 770 others in Nha Trang, Cam Ranh, Ninh Hoa (VND396 million); Cam Lam, Dien Khanh, Van Ninh (VND264 million); Khanh Son, Khanh Vinh (VND165 million).

 

Besides, the steering board has set a target to complete building a "humanitarian address e-bank" connecting the portal of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Red Cross and the provincial portal to regularly review and update donations and those in need.

 

Several measures taken

 

To promote the campaign, the Steering Committees at all levels will closely coordinate with local agencies and authorities to boost propaganda to attract more and more organizations and individuals to get involved in humanitarian assistance in diverse and appropriate ways, creating stable resources in the implementation of the campaign. Besides, the steering committee at all levels will also coordinate with local authorities to continue surveying humanitarian addresses pursuant to the process guided by the Vietnam Red Cross Central Committee and at the request of donors; regularly build a "Humanitarian address e-bank"; completing management records of humanitarian addresses and guiding documents for the synchronous and consistent implementation of the campaign in the province.

 

According to Le Van Hoa, Chairman of Khanh Hoa Red Cross, the standing agency of he Steering Board, the humanitarian assistance must be effective and practical in a sustainable way. Therefore, the steering board must choose the form of assistance based on the needs and aspirations of the needy and at the requests of organizations and individuals registering for providing assistance; and raise public awareness and provide appropriate skills for vulnerable people and communities to overcome challenges and thrive;  periodically assess the needs and review the requests of donors to make appropriate adjustments, ensuring that assistance is regular and effective, reaching those who need it the most. The Party Committees at all levels and local authorities, the Fatherland Front Committee and its member organizations, businesses, benefactors, etc., are to register for humanitarian support based on the recommendation by the Steering Board at all levels.

 

In the spirit of mutual support to ensure appropriate assistance reaches those in need, the steering board will boost the cooperation with agencies, organizations, businesses and individual sponsors to seek resources in support of the campaign; striving to mobilize at least 50% of the leaders of the Party Committee, government and agencies registering to join providing assistance for 1 person or community together with regular propaganda on mass media to promote the campaign and raise community involvement in the humanitarian work, reaching out to those in need.

 

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M.H

Translated by N.T