Gifts for flood victims and poor people
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| Donations raised from a U2U & Friends friendly football tournament in Đà Nẵng city will be presented to families of the dead from flooding in the central region, national athletes with disabilities, facilities for an ethnic group boarding school and underprivileged university students. Photo courtesy of JFC Đà Nẵng |
ĐÀ NẴNG — A donation, raised from U2U & Friends friendly football tournament in the central city, will be presented to families of the dead from flooding in the central region, national athletes with disabilities, facilities for an ethnic group boarding school and underprivileged university students in Quảng Trị, Thừa Thiên Huế and Quảng Nam provinces.
The tournament organising committee said the VNĐ120 million (US$4,800) donation was contributed from Việt Nam’s Unicorn Ultra block chain platform, Đà Nẵng Journalist Football club and Sơn Trà district at the football tourney.
It said the donation would go toward six families of flood victims, six disabled sportspersons with good results in the Hangzhou Asian Para Games, equipment for a school board in Nam Giang district of Quảng Nam Province, and scholarships for two poor students at Duy Tân Đà Nẵng University.
This is part of a series charity programmes worth more than $280,000 donated from community, businesses and football tournaments to support flood victims and poor people in central Việt Nam in 2016-23.
The football tourney’s organisers said the donation will soon be handed over to families and poor people. VNS
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