The Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) in coordination with the International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and Vietnam
Multimedia Corporation (VMC) will buy 400 tonnes of rice and 1,000 cows
to present to central flood victims.
In October
alone, the VRC organised four relief aid missions with almost 12 billion
VND and 150 tonnes of goods to flood victims in the central provinces
of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Nghe An, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue, who
suffered from two consecutive floods in the month.
Meanwhile, the VRC at local level mobilised more than 8 billion VND for the same purpose.
Domestic and international individuals and organisations donated 9.2
billion VND while more than 11 billion VND was collected through phone
message services.
International organisations, the IFRC and foreign countries’ Red Cross have committed to providing 21.7 billion VND.
The VRC also plans to help build 500 houses, each worth 30 million
VND, and send 7,000 boxes of goods for central flood victims.
For the same purpose, the staff of the Vietnamese embassy and trade
mission, the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) bureau, Vietnam Airlines and
overseas Vietnamese in the UK donated more than 5,200 GBP on Oct.
29.
Since October, the overseas Vietnamese community
in the UK has donated more than 9,300 GBP to the homeland’s central
flood victims.
The Vietnamese embassy in the UK
will send the donation to the victims through relevant agencies, said
Vietnamese charge d’affaires Tao Thanh Huong.
Meanwhile, overseas Vietnamese and Vietnamese embassy staff in the
Ukraine have sent 35,842 USD to the homeland’s central flood-hit
provinces.
In addition, the Vingroup in Ukraine and Vietnam have donated 5 billion VND.
On Oct. 30, the Vietnam Youth and Students Association in Japan (VYSA)
organised a festival to raise money for its Gold Heart Fund to assist
poor students and central flood victims in the homeland.
The VYSA has earmarked 25 million VND from its fund to send relief aid
to central flood victims, apart from a campaign launched from Oct.
10-Nov. 7 for the same purpose among Vietnamese students in Japan .
The VYSA’s fund also mobilised 404,628 JPY (around 100 million VND) to central flood victims in the homeland in 2009.
In the meantime, heavy rains occurred again in the central region,
with the hardest hit provinces being Khanh Hoa, Phu Yen and Ninh Thuan.
The latest floods have killed six by late November 2, while four have
gone missing.
The North-South main route, the
Highway 1A, and the railway route were inundated in some sections,
resulting in traffic blockade./.
