(HBO) -A store offering groceries free of charge was set up in Hoa Binh city, the northern province of the same name, on April 20.
Selling everything for zero dong, Sieu
Thi Hanh Phuc (Happiness
Supermarket)was launched by the provincial People’s Committee, People’s Council together
with local chapter of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union,
provincial Department of Trade and Industry and APEC Group.
Locals
choose products at the "Happiness Supermarket” selling products for zero dong.
The store is open for one month from April 20 to May 20. It will provide necessities for poor and near-poor households and policy beneficiaries,
along with freelance labourers impacted by COVID-19.
The store allows
customers to choose five
products such as rice, sugar, nuts,
spices, salt and cooking oil,
at a total cost of less than
100,000 VND (4.20 USD). Each shopper can come to the store twice a month.
At the store, customers
are requied to wear face
masks, have their temperature taken, wash their hands, stand two metres apart, and
closely follow preventive measures.
A leader of the Hoa Binh city
People’s Committee said with the spirit of taking some if you are in need – savingfor others if you are able to get by – donating if you can, the
committee has called on local firms, organisations and
individuals to donate essential goods at free distribution
points during the social distancing period, with an aim of leaving no one behind in the fight
against the COVID-19 pandemic./.
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