Deputy Foreign Minister Dang Minh Khoi on April 27 handed over gifts in cash and kind donated by Vietnamese citizens living Thailand and the Republic of Korea to the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) to support the country’s battle against the novel coronavirus.

Handing over the gifts donated by Vietnamese nationals living in Thailand
to VFF Central Committee President Tran Thanh Man (Photo:VFF)

At the handover ceremony, Khoi, who is also Chairman of the State Committee on Overseas Vietnamese Affairs, said despite difficulties in their host countries, Vietnamese citizens have joined hands in launching fund-raising  campaigns to help their compatriots combat the disease in the homeland. 

He announced that the General Association of Vietnamese people in Thailand and the Vietnam Business Association in the Republic of Korea (VIBAK) had raised VND638 million and VND66 million for the battle. 

In addition, he said the Vietnamese communities in Hungary, Thailand, China, the US, Laos, Cambodia, the Republic of Korea, Poland, the Czech Republic, Britain, Germany and France, have also offered medical supplies such as cloth face masks, clothes, food, protective masks, and gloves to administrations, hospitals and Vietnamese nationals in need in their host countries.

VFF Central Committee President Tran Thanh Man thanked Vietnamese citizens abroad for their heartfelt support to the homeland and said the money and medical supplies will be delivered to those in need in an open and transparent manner.