By November 24, more than 1.05 million citizens and nearly 61,000 businesses had made donations via the relief committee. Contributions both in cash and in kind already transferred to it amounted to nearly VND 945.82 billion in value.

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Officials and employees of the Party Committee of Central Party Agencies donate to support people affected by storms and floods.

Meanwhile, the entire VFF network nationwide has received more than VND 3.2 trillion in financial aid for people to overcome the disaster aftermath.

The Central Relief Committee has so far disbursed nine rounds of relief worth over VND 678.18 billion in total, targeting 23 provinces and cities in the northern and central regions.

Localities and collectives have directly delivered VND 118.5 billion in assistance to affected provinces and cities. Vingroup, via its Thien Tam Fund, had disbursed more than VND 350 billion as of November 21, equivalent to 70% of its 500 billion VND Phase-1 relief package.

On November 25, representatives of the VFF Central Committee received contributions from various units, including the Party Central Committee's Commission for Information, Education and Mass Mobilization (VND 450 million), the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment (VND 1.3 billion), Diana Unicharm JSC (VND 1 billion), Vietnam Airlines Corporation (VND 1 billion), Phuong Dong Investment One-Member Company Limited (VND 1 billion), and University of Transport Technology (VND 300 million), among many others.

Since October, VFF committees across the 34 provinces and cities have launched fundraising campaigns in response to the call of the VFF Presidium, mobilizing on-site support and directly transferring assistance to affected localities.

Source: VNA