Over years, Ninh Hoa Town Red Cross has made constant effort to care for the disadvantaged and agent orange victims, contributing to ensuring social security...
Over years, Ninh Hoa Town Red Cross has made constant effort to care for the disadvantaged and Agent Orange victims, contributing to ensuring social security. The Red Cross Society is among the 3 leading agencies in charity work.
Many activities for the needy
Thanks to the proposal of Ninh Hoa Town Red Cross, Dang Thi Mong Thu, a poor family of Ninh Hiep Ward was offered a housing grant from the provincial campaign “Each organization or individual is attached with one humanitarian address” to build a new house in 2021. The assisstance provided her family a safe place to live in and brought them more strength to overcome their difficult circumstances in life and make greater effort to get out of poverty.
 House hand-over ceremony to Dang Thi Mong Thu's family.
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Besides Dang Thi Mong Thu, thanks to the consultancy of Ninh Hoa Town Red Cross, 36 poor families were offered housing grants from the campaign funding in 2021. The Town Red Cross also built charity kitchens, locations for donating and receiving used clothes together with free automatic water boilers. The charity kitchens operate 4 times a month in the morning at weekend, serving 100 - 300 food portions to poor patients and their families; the blind and poor workers in the town.
Tran Minh Ngoc, Ninh Tay Commune, a care-giver at Ninh Hoa General Hospital said, “Ninh Hoa Town Red Cross has organized many charity activities. Besides serving free food, Ninh Hoa Town Red Cross has also offered hot and cold drinking water in order to share difficulties with the vulnerable.”
Fulfilling charity work
Confirming its main role in social support, over the past years, Ninh Hoa Town Red Cross staff, members and volunteers have mobilized donations from individuals and organizations inside and outside the town. In 2021 and 9 months of 2022, the Town Red Cross and its affiliations mobilized donations of VND11.9 billion worth of gifts and cash to help the vulnerable. The Red Cross Society provided emergency assistance worth over VND600 million for more than 100 victims of accidents, drowning and serious patients; sponsored 4 orphans in Ninh Hiep Ward; and suggested a list of 178 addresses in need of help.
Under the direction of the Town Party Committee, local agencies have supported humanitarian addresses with a total amount of VND256 million; provided livelihood, breeding cows, repaired houses, etc with the amount of VND547 million. Implementing the program "Lunar New Year for the poor and Agent Orange victims", the Town Red Cross and 27 afflictions launched and received more than 14,870 gifts worth VND5.3 billion from benefactors at home and abroad...
Besides, the Red Ross Society took 2,000 patients to Ho Chi Minh City for free eye surgery with a total funding of more than VND7 billion. In response to the Charity Month (May), the society mobilized more than 5,000 gifts worth more than VND2 billion for the vulnerable in the town. With the charity kitchens and automatic water boilers, the society served more than 3,000 loaves of bread with ham and more than 10,000 porridge portions to the needy; mobilized blood donation with 1,700 units of blood collected.
In the coming time, Ninh Hoa Town Red Cross will focus on promoting long-term charity activities; expand the charity hospital model to communes and wards to help more people in need, according to Le Thanh Ninh, Vice-Chairman of Ninh Hoa Town Red Cross.
C.Dan
Translated by N.T
