VBS presents 700 gift packets to fishermen in Ha Tinh province

05/27/2016

On occasion of the Buddha Birthday 2016 – B.E. 2560, a delegation led by Most Venerable Head of the VBS Central Committee for Buddhist Propagation Thích Bảo Nghiêm paid a charity visit to fishermen in Ky Loi commune, Ha Tinh province’s Ky Anh town on May 24.

The charity program was organized in collaboration with Phap Hoa ashrams in Hanoi and Ha Tinh provincial VBS Executive Committee.

The delegation presented 700 packets of gifts worth nearly 400 million VND, including rice and household appliances, to fishermen in hamlets of  Hai Phong 1, Hai Phong 2, Hai Thanh, Tan Phuc Thanh 2 and Tan Phuc Thanh 3 in Ky Loi commune for sharing difficulties with fishermen after recent mass fish deaths as well as encouraging fishermen to continue fishing offshore, contributing to protect sovereignty of the country’s islands.

Tung Chi – Ha Tinh provincial Committee for Religious Affairs