The event was to expand coordination between VRCS and enterprises at home and abroad while calling for their responsibility in implementing charity activities, particularly their participation in previous projects on social affairs launched by the Vietnamese Government.
At the conference, delegates reviewed outcomes of the humanitarian assistance programs in Vietnam over the past five years and mapped out the 2019-2022 plan.
Over the past years, VRCS has actively mobilized the whole community to participate in social programs. Particularly, it launched mobilephone texting programs in support of needy people and disadvantaged groups, raised fund for charity via signing collaboration agreements with organizations and enterprises, developed networks of sponsors for red-cross groups, called for international sources, and applied information technology to mobilizing resources.
Speaking at the event, Ms. Truong Thi Mai, Politburo member, member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat and head of the Party Central Committee’s Mass Mobilization Commission, highly applauded the efforts of the three organizations, namely VRCS, VCCI, and the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations (VUFO) in raising funds for humanitarian assistance activities in Vietnam. She hoped that they would promote their collaboration after the conference.
In addition, the senior Party official suggested that each organization should pay more attention to building a concrete plan, define their priorities, and work out good approaches to effectively implementing humanitarian assistance programs.
During the event, 12 agencies and organizations signed coordination agreements with the Vietnam Red Cross Society.
Also, 13 organizations and enterprises at home and abroad pledged to donate more than VND 185 billion in total to humanitarian activities in Vietnam in the time to come.
Translated by Trung Thanh