Over the past years, local Buddhists proactively joint social movements for supporting the disadvantaged such as building charity houses, presenting scholarships to poor pupils, providing free meals to the poor, etc.

Since its establishment, the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha Chapter in the province has made social and charitable contributions valued at 600 billion VND. In particular, from 2013 to now, local Buddhists have spent nearly 400 billion VND on social charities.

Catholic communities in the province have so far made practical contributions for new-style rural development in the province including building bridges, making and repairing rural roads, dredging canals, donating land to build public facilities, and providing assistance in education and healthcare, etc.

In 2018, local Catholics have contributed about 230 million VND for improving local transport systems and spent nearly 4 billion VND on social charities.

For the past years, the Ante-Creation Caodai Church has run six traditional clinics for offering free health-check, distributed free packs of traditional medicines to patients, presented books to poor pupils, as well as provided free meals at Ben Luc hospital.

Hoa Hao Buddhism in Long An province have run charity kitchens at hospitals, built and repaired charity houses and rural roads, presented books to poor pupils and provided free health-check to the poor, etc with the total contribution valued at tens of billions VND over the past years.

Regarding to the Covid-19 pandemic, local religious organizations have strictly observed preventive measures and contributed over 400 million VND to the fund set up for the Covid-19 epidemic fighting work.

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