Hanoi has raised more than VND45 billion (USDabout 2 million) for its Children’s Fund over the past six years, as heard at a meeting on October 6th to review the Fund operations from 2009-2015, Vietnam News Agency reported.

Hanoi raises USD2 mln for children’s fund in six years. (Source: VNA)

Local children, especially those from difficult backgrounds, were taken into better care through various childcare and scholarship projects aided by the Fund.

Every year, the Fund presented gifts to impoverished children, children with disabilities and orphans during Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday, Mid-Autumn festival and International Children Day (June 1st) and worked with local hospitals to give free surgeries to poor children who were born with heart and eye defects, harelips and cleft palates.

It has raised over VND8 billion (about USD356,000) in the first nine months of the year, including VND2 billion in cash (USD89,000), according to Vietnam News Agency./.

( Compiled by VNF )