The mini supermarkets are opened in 20 districts and cities across Ho Chi Minh City, including districts 7, Phu Nhuan, Binh Tan, Hoc Mon and Thu Duc city. These are localities with a large number of workers, laborers with difficulties, many industrial parks, export and processing zones, migrant workers, disadvantaged, poor and near-poor households.
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Needy people join the “Zero VND mini supermarket” program |
Each person can shop essential items, food at the total value of VND 400,000 at the mini supermarkets.
The three-day program is expected to give support to more than 15,000 people in need with the total cost of over VND 9.5 billion, including VND 6 billion from PNJ, VND 1.8 billion from HAWEE, VND 1 billion from Saigon Co.op, and VND 700 million from the city’s Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee.
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Presenting Tet gifts to localities |
PNJ has launched similar programs in different localities nationwide which benefit more than 4,000 households and workers facing difficulties.
The same day, in the morning, the city’s Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee kick-started a meaningful program under the theme “Spring of Solidarity - Tet of Compassion” to ensure a cozy Tet for the needy in the upcoming lunar New Year.
As planned, nearly 79,700 gifts, worth from VND 400,000 to VND 2 million each, drawn from the “For the poor,” “For national sea and islands - For the front-line of the Fatherland” Foundation, the city’s Relief Fund, and contributions by units and enterprises, will be presented. In this festival, the city plans to spend more than VND 43.3 billion to care for needy local people.
Recipients are disadvantaged policy beneficiary families and households, poor and near-poor households, orphans, workers, laborers and families facing difficulties due to the great impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ho Chi Minh City.
Apart from needy local people, gifts will be handed over to on-duty military units in safeguarding national sea, islands and borders and to charitable, humanitarian, and social institutions.
Translated by Song Anh