Overseas Vietnamese in Holland give help to Durian-stricken victims

VNGOVNet – The representatives of the Association of Vietnamese People in the Hague and the Vietnamese community in Ousdenbosch, the Netherlands, asked on December 15 the Vietnamese Embassy to transfer €1,655 (equivalent to VND35 million) through the Committee for Overseas Vietnamese to the victims of Typhoon Durian in some provinces in South Vietnam.

December 21, 2006 9:12 AM GMT+7

They also gave some suggestions to make the raising of support for their calamity-stricken fellow countrymen at home more effective. Over the past months, Vietnamese people residing and working in the Netherlands have contributed over €4,500 (or nearly VND100 million) to calamity-stricken victims at home.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Holland Hà Huy Thông expressed his gratitude to the good sentiment and kindness of the Vietnamese community in the Netherlands towards typhoon-hit people at home and his hope that charity activities like this will be further developed.

By Xuân Hồng

(Source: MOFA)