November 22, 2017 | 21:10 (GMT+7)
Meeting spotlights contribution of Vietnam Red Cross Society
The Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRCS) has worked to spread humanitarian spirit in society, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said.
Deputy PM Vu Duc Dam and other delegates viewing the VRCS's activities. Photo: VGP
He addressed a meeting in Hanoi on November 22 to
mark the VRCS’s 60-year membership in the International Federation of Red Cross
and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) (November 4, 1957) and its 71st founding
anniversary (November 23, 1946).
He said the association has become
familiar to people from all walks of life through its engagements in
humanitarian aid, climate change adaptation, and poverty alleviation.
The Government and Party assign the
Vietnam Red Cross to make contributions to the IFRC and expect the
collaboration to grow stronger, the official stressed.
As of June 2017, the VRCS had nearly
8.5 million members and volunteers working across 17,000 chapters.
Between 2012 and 2017, it has run
various humanitarian programs, including sending gifts to the poor on the Lunar
New Year holiday, giving cows to 21,600 needy households, and providing free
health treatment and medicine for 1.4 million people.
In the past five years, it received
an average funding of more than 9.5 trillion VND (418 million USD), while
implementing 20 foreign-funded projects worth over 510 billion VND (22.44
million USD), per year.
Source: VNA