According to the report presented at the meeting, in the first six month, the Provincial Red Cross helped and granted gifts to 19,960 beneficiaries with the total value of over VND3,562 million; inaugurated and put into use 45 houses of gratitude and Red Cross houses, worth VND450 million. The Provincial Red Cross is now building 80 Red Cross houses worth VND1,520 million in four districts and city. Besides, the Provincial Red Cross coordinated with the Vietnamese Fatherland Front of Quang Binh province to collect money to help flood-prone and earthquake victims with the total donation of VND929 million. On the other hand, the Provincial Red Cross directed the Red Cross Society at all levels to well implement the project on hygiene education and school nutrition; the community-based disaster prevention project; the water and environmental sanitation project…

Over the past 10 year of implementing and building, the Agent Orange Victim's Fund and the Red Cross Society at all levels collected VND2,247,320,000, of which VND664,320,000 funded by districts and city; VND1 billion sponsored by the Central Committee of Vietnam Red Cross and more than VND504 million mobilized by the people in the whole province.

The Agent Orange Victim's Fund helped AO victims examine and treat diseases, issue medicine free, provide wheelchairs, build houses of gratitude and Red Cross houses, allocate capital for breeding, visit and grant gifts. With these meaningful activities, the Agent Orange Victim's Fund contributed to helping the victim's family overcome the difficulties in their life and escape the poverty.

On this occasion, the meeting also agreed the contents and deployed the campaign "each organisation, each individual helps one humanitarian address" launched by the Central Committee of Vietnam Red Cross till 2010.

By N.Y