Religious organizations send support packages to people affected by Covid-19 pandemic

08/02/2021

In the context of current Covid-19 pandemic spread in Ninh Thuan province, the Representative Committee under the Evangelical Church of Vietnam (South) in the province has successfully launched fund-raisings for assisting households affected by the pandemic in the locality.  

From the raised fund, the provincial Evangelical Representative Committee has sent 334 support packages containing rice, noodle, cooking oil and cash, etc., worth 120 million VND, to disadvantaged households in the province.

Foreign workers in Nha Trang city affected by Covid-19 receive support package

The Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS)’s charity board in Ho Chi Minh city has distributed 300 sets of daily necessities including rice, noodle and cooking oil, worth over 100 million VND in total, to 300 foreign workers in Khanh Hoa province’s Nha Trang city. 

Meanwhile, since the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic in Ho Chi Minh city, the VBS’s cultural affairs board in the city and Khanh An monastery has donated 125 tons of rice, 10,000 boxes of noodles and 18 tons of vegetables to the city’s 18 districts.

The VBS cultural affairs board in Ho Chi Minh city brings rice and vegetables to people in District 1

In supporting people affected by Covid-19 pandemic in Hau Giang province, the Hoa Hao Buddhist Church’s representative committee in the province has presented 2,860 sets of necessities, each valued at 200,000 VND, to poor households; donated 48 million VND to poor patients; maintained a monthly donation of rice to 28 households with special difficulties; presented 20 million VND to the Covid-19 prevention work in the locality.

Hoa Hao Buddhist Church executive board in Hoa Binh commune delivers rice to disadvantaged household

The Hoa Hao Buddhist Church’s executive board in Hoa Binh commune, An Giang province’s Cho Moi district in collaboration with the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee in the commune has handed over 1,700 kg of rice to poor and near-poor households in the locality during the imposed social distancing, with a total value of over 20 million VND. To ensure prevention and control measures against the Covid-19, the Hoa Hao Buddhist executive board in commune has delivered rice to homes of households.