Gift presented to AO victims’ family in Gia Lap commune, Gia Vien district, Ninh Binh province.

Nhan Dan – The Nam Dinh Association of the Agent Organe (AO) Victims has held a conference to praise over 200 outstanding dioxin/AO victims who have not resigned themselves to their disadvantaged fate, striving to better themselves in their lives, winning over the AO-related diseases and taking an active part in social work and development of household economy and making a contribution to poverty reduction and hunger elimination, thus wining the people’s trust and love.

On this occasion, a lot of organisations and individuals in the province supported VND 180 million in total to look after and help the dioxin/AO victims.

* On the evening of August 9, in Kon Tum city, the Kon Tum provincial Association of the AO Victims in co-ordination with the provincial Journalists’ Association held a exchange night themed ‘Common Sense and Responsibility’ with the aim of continuing to call on the charity organisations and kind-hearted individuals to share with the AO victims in the province.

* Arts exchange programmes have also been organised in Hai Duong and Can Tho provinces to raise funds for the AO victims.

The associations of the AO victims at all levels in Lang Son province have raised money and presented over 123,000 gifts worth over VND 3.5 billion for the AO victims the province.

From August 4 – 9, the Dong Nai provincial Association of the AO Victims in co-ordination with the offices of labour, war invalids and social affairs of districts, towns and citites in the province presented over 1,000 gifts to the dioxin/AO victims.

* The Quang Ngai provincial Association of the Dioxin/AO Victims sent its missions to visit and present gifts to seven families of the AO victims in extreme difficulties in Mo Duc and Duc Pho districts.

In addition, the association has helped build 33 ‘great national unity’ houses for the AO victims with a total value of VND 530 million funded by kind-hearted enterprises, organisations and individuals.

Currently, there remains over 17,000 AO victims in 13 districts and cities in the province, including over 1,800 children with inborn deformities.