(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./.
In the afternoon of December 17, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism organized a summary and awarding ceremony for the Online Competition on preventing and controlling the Family Violence in 2024.
Implementing the Resolution of the 17th Provincial Party Congress to reach a health insurance coverage rate of 95% or more of the population, the Women's Union at all provincial levels has deployed the creative models and methods and effectively replicated them. These activities not only contribute to completing the social security goals, but they also spread the spirit of solidarity and sharing in the community.
Hoa Binh is carried out investment projects to upgrade three district medical centres in Lac Son and Yen Thuy districts and Hoa Binh city. The projects are funded by the central budget under the Economic and Social Recovery and Development Programme, aiming to improve healthcare services. The goal is to gradually develop a system of modern and quality district-level healthcare facilities.
To improve the cultural and spiritual life of the elderly, the associations for the elderly at various levels in Hoa Binh province have created many interesting and meaningful activities, attracting the participation of a large number of old people. These activities provide opportunities for them to improve both their physical and mental health, enabling them to live happily and healthily.
The pilot programme for sending Vietnamese workers to the Republic of Korea (RoK) for seasonal agricultural jobs continues under a collaboration between localities of the two countries, running for five years from January 1, 2022.
Staff of the Red Cross Society of Hoa Binh province were deeply moved by a meaningful and humanitarian act by Mr Vu Huu Lung, 86, in Hoa Binh city, to donate his corneas, which brought hopes to those yearning for the light. Before passing away, Lung left behind a noble wish to donate all of his organs, including his corneas, to help patients suffering from blindness and those in need of organ transplants to revive their lives.
