The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City plans to spend some 800 billion VND (34.5 million USD) on gifts to policy beneficiaries and impoverished households in the city as the Lunar New Year (Tet) 2019 nears.
To be more specific, people who rendered service to the nation, heroic Vietnamese mothers, war invalids and sick soldiers will receive presents worth from 1.7 million VND (73.22 USD) to 3.1 million VND (133,53 USD) each.
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Secretary of the municipal Party Committee presents gift to a policy beneficiary family.
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For 26,000 policy beneficiaries, each will receive 1.3 million VND (55.99 USD) in support while the amount for poor and near-poor families is 1.1 million VND (47.38 USD).
In addition, the financial assistance to people who live in social protection centres and the old aged 80 and above is 1.3 million VND each.
According to Director of the municipal Department of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs Le Minh Tan, the city will present Tet gifts to ethnic minority people and religious organizations towards building a city in which no one is left behind.
The municipal People’s Committee has asked districts, agencies and businesses to ensure a warm Tet for local residents, as well as organize cultural, sport and entertainment activities on the occasion.
At least 1.5 million Tet gift packages for underprivileged
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Leading officials visit workers ahead of Tet
Politburo member and permanent member of the Party Central Committee's Secretariat Tran Quoc Vuong on January 6 visited workers at the Ha Phong garments for the export company in the northern province of Bac Giang on the occasion of the coming traditional lunar New Year (Tet), the longest and most important annual festival in Vietnam.
Helping the poor enjoy happy Tet holiday
(BGO) - Through the mobilization of the Fatherland Front Committees at all levels in Bac Giang province, many agencies, units, businesses and benefactors have joined hands to support the construction of hundreds of houses and prepare tens of thousands of gifts for poor households with especially difficult circumstances in order to help them have a warm and happy Tet holiday.
Tet gifts offered to impoverished child patients
President of the Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRCS) Nguyen Thi Xuan Thu on January 5 presented 30 gift packages to poor children who are undergoing treatment at Hanoi-based Viet Duc Hospital ahead of the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.
Source: VNA
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