(VOVworld) – Activities have been organized across Vietnam for children to welcome Mid-Autumn festival. The annual charitable ‘Fairy moon’, the seventh of its kind, aims to raise money to pay for surgery for ten children born with heart disease and honor individuals and organizations to help disadvantaged children over the past years.
A special art show took place in Hanoi's Children Palace.
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Under this year’s plan, 50 scholarships were granted and thousands of gifts to poor children, Agent Orange/ Dioxin victims and child patients to cheer them up on the occasion of the full moon festival, a major event for Vietnamese children.
2014 full moon festival, the first of this kind held by Hai Duong provincial Youth Union (Photo: haiduongnews)
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Deputy Minister of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs Nguyen Trong Dam said: “The program is of humane reflecting the society’s love and responsibility to disadvantage children. I hope businesses, organizations, and benefactors both at home and abroad will continue to accompany the program so that poor children across the country can have a better life.”
Da Nang’s Association of Agent Orange Dioxin victims has cooperated with Ba Da Pagoda to present 150 gifts and nearly 2,400 USD for AO victims in Thanh Khe district to help them have a joyful full moon festival. Venerable Thich Thong Dao who chairs the Ba Da Pagoda said: “Our pagoda has held many charitable activities in 2014 Mid-Autumn Festival. Apart from 700 gifts for unfortunate children, houses of gratitude have been built. Though the gifts are not big, they’ve partly relieved their disadvantages.”
In Quang Ngai, 1,000 sets of gifts worth almost 9,500 USD have been given to ill-fated and handicapped children in coastal villages. Five hundred moon cakes have been presented to poor child patients in Quang Ngai General Hospital, Phu Hoa Orphanage, Pho Quang Pagoda, and districts in mountain district of Son Tay.
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| A competition in Da Nang to encourage children to make lanterns featuring Vietnamese sea and islands (Photo: Tran Le Lam/VNA) |
Various activities have been underway in Ho Chi Minh City for the city’s underprivileged children. At the area to memorize Hung Kings, 500 children living in difficult circumstances in a number of districts in the city participated in the 2014 Full Moon Night where they played folk games, enjoyed traditional art performances, and joined a competition to pile lanterns into Vietnamese navy ships and Truong Sa milestone. Nguyen Hoang Vy, the leader of the 1stprize group, shared her feeling: “I feel honored to give my little strength to soldiers stationed in islands to fight for the national peace. I’m grateful to Hung Kings who founded the country for us to have joyful Mid-Autumn festivals like today.”
Similar meaningful activities also took place in Binh Phuoc and Soc Trang province.