Farmers in Central Highlands Da Lat Town harvest vegetables and send them to HCMC since the food supply in the city has been disrupted due to the Covid lockdown. Every day dozens of farmers in fact send vegetables to the southern city for free.

A 100-year-old woman in the central Thanh Hoa Province sends packages of rice and fish to people in HCMC. Long has done a number of paintings of Saigon amid its current lockdown in the last few weeks, sold them and used the money to support poor people amid the pandemic. He also plans to organize an exhibition when the pandemic is over. As of Saturday, HCMC has recorded 115,812 Covid cases in the current outbreak.

People in the central Binh Dinh Province inscribe words of love on squashes before sending them to Saigon.

A Quang Tri woman takes her pig to the local people’s committee to donate to Saigon. She does not have much money and so wants to show her solidarity with Saigonese by gifting the pig, which can be cooked for many people, she said.

A food stall on Nguyen Binh Khiem Street in HCMC’s District 1. Poor people can come here and eat for free.

Long has also done paintings of migrant workers, many of them have lost their jobs due to Covid and decided to go back to their hometowns with whatever they have. In this painting, workers eat food provided by some police officers in the central Binh Dinh Province en route to their hometown.

A tour guide says farewell to Saigon while returning to her hometown in the central Thua Thien Hue Province after months of unemployment. Long heard the story from a student and decided to paint this.

A nine-day-old baby travels with his parents from the Binh Duong Province near HCMC to the central Nghe An Province. They were taken home by some kind-hearted people from Da Nang City as their motorbike broke down.