People in Samakkhixay district receiving rice by the Vietnamese unit

PANO – A mission of Economic-Defence Unit 385 of Army Corps 15 visited and handed over more than 1.1 tons of rice to ethnic minority people in Samakkhixay district, Attapeu province, Laos on November 14th and 15th.

The offered rice grown from the unit’s intercropping rice in rubber tree plantations, and the gift contributed to strengthening the solidarity between the two countries.

Previously, the Vietnamese soldiers also provided free health check-ups, medicines and consultations to the district’s inhabitants.

According to a local, in every between-crop period, the Vietnamese army unit has granted rice to needy people in Samakkhixay.

Translated by Van Hieu