Priest Paul Nguyễn Ngô Đình, Head of Dinh My Catholic Parish in An Giang province’s Thoai Son district has been open and close to parishioners, practically encouraging them to overcome hardship and improve their family incomes.
The priest has also established and maintained the Dinh My parish’s funds for social charities supporting disadvantaged people and education promotion helping children at schools. With these funds, the Catholic dignitary monthly provides 10kg of rice to each of 20 poor families in the locality, and notebooks to children and pupils of the parish from the kindergarten to high school education.
This year, Priest Paul Nguyễn Ngô Đình presented 1,700 notebooks to 116 children and will have gifts for encouraging children’s efforts in school education.
In addition, the Catholic parish has successfully raised a fund worth VND 285 million for building three local bridges of Ap Chien Luoc, Ca Rang 2 and Sinh Phan in My Phu village in Dinh My commune.
His warm heart and contributions have practical contributed to foster mutual assistance and solidarity in Dinh My parish.
Acknowledging his outstanding contributions for socio-economic development in the 2015-2020 period, the district authorities of Thoai Son has presented a certificate of recommendation to Priest Paul Nguyễn Ngô Đình.
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