On this occasion, the delegation and the provincial leaders handed over 200 Tet gifts to policy households and Agent Orange (AO) victims in the communes of Phuc Ninh, Thang Quan, Tu Quan, Lang Quan (Yen Son district) and Xuan Quang (Chiem Hoa district).
The same day, the branch of the Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank (MB) in the Central Region launched a program to offer Tet gifts to war veterans and sick soldiers at the Convalescent Center for National Contributors in Quang Nam province and to 50 blind students at Nguyen Dinh Chieu Special School in Da Nang City.
The chain of command of Division 9 of Military Corps 4 offering New Year gifts to a policy family.
Accordingly, besides gifts, the bank also presented each blind student VND one million. Previously, the bank presented gifts, totally worth over VND 50 million, to war veterans, who had undertaken international missions in Cambodia, and several policy families in Binh Duong commune, Thang Binh district, Quang Nam province.
* The Hai Duong provincial Military Command has just handed over three houses and essential commodities to non-commissioned First Lieutenant Nguyen Duc Da from the Military Command of Nam Sach district; Hoang Ngoc Thanh, former Political Commissar of the Military Command of Cam Binh district and war martyr's mother Nguyen Thi Khen in Dong Lac commune, Chi Linh town.
* The Gia Lai provincial Labor Union has just held a program themed "Tet (Lunar New Year) gathering 2017" and handed over gifts, worth VND 235 million to 316 needy laborers and 40 students who are children of disadvantaged workers and staff in the locality.
* The Economic Defense Group 778 of Military Region 7 of the Vietnam People's Army in association with local authorities held a program themed "Xuan Bien Gioi" (Spring in border area) in 2017 in Bu Khon hamlet, Dak O commune, Bu Gia Map district, Binh Phuoc province. Apart from meaningful activities, such as folk games, cultural and art exchanges, sport competitions, the unit also gave 100 gifts, worth from VND 300,000 to VND 500,000 each, to households of S'tieng minority ethnic group and national contributors in Bu Gia Map district.
* The chain of command of Division 9 of Military Corps 4 offered Tet gifts, worth roughly VND 1 billion, to policy families and needy households in their stationed area. Additionally, they sent troops to help locals clean up living environment and roads in Cu Chi district, Ho Chi Minh City.
* The Youth Union of the Tay Ninh provincial Military Command in association with the provincial Youth Union and the local MB branch handed over 100 gifts to people in the communes of Long Chu and Long Phuoc, Ben Cau district.
* On January 19 and 20, Corps 15 and Sa Loong Border Station in association with local units organized a program entitled "Green Chung cakes - a happy Tet for civilians and troops" for people in Sa Loong border commune of Ngoc Hoi district, Kon Tum province.
Various activities, within the framework of the program such as a Chung cake wrapping contest, a competition for apricot flower decoration, and others, lured hundreds of locals and troops. On this occasion, the organizing board offered 300 gifts and 300 pairs of Chung cake to ethnic minority people in the area.
Translated by Trung Thanh