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Chairman of the Hanoi Labour Federation Nguyen Phi Thuong has asked the city’s trade unions at all levels to take more active measures to help workers overcome the challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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At a meeting of the Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control on August 9, Thuong said that amidst complicated developments of COVID-19 in the city, trade unions should take greater care of workers whose livelihoods are being affected by COVID-19 through the launch of ‘zero-VND’ mini supermarkets and ‘zero VND supermarkets on buses’. Notably, ten days after being launched, the buses have brought essential items to 14,800 pandemic-hit workers in the city. At a time when Hanoi is applying social distancing measures following Prime Minister’s Directive 16, the city’s trade unions at all levels have allocated over VND30 billion and mobilised an additional VND84 billion from social resources to support labourers and those working in the frontline against COVID-19 in the city. * The same day, a delegation of Military Region 9, led by Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the Military Region, Major General Truong Minh Khai, visited and presented 740 gift packages to policy beneficiary families, poor households, and Khmer people in the communes of Vinh Hai and Vinh Hiep in Vinh Chau Town, Soc Trang Province.
Gifts presented to needy people in Vinh Hai Commune, Vinh Chau Town, Soc Trang Province. (Photo: VNA) Each package includes cash, rice, instant noodles, and other necessary goods worth VND1 million in total. In the coming days, the delegation will present similar gift packages worth VND3 billion in total to needy people in the provinces of Tra Vinh, Tien Giang, An Giang, Dong Thap and Soc Trang. * Meanwhile in Binh Thuan Province, the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF)’s Binh Thuan Chapter received donations of food and farm products from the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to support people in the pandemic-hit areas in the locality. The goods, donated by businesses operating in the province, included 12 tonnes of rice, 15,200 packages of instant sausages, 5,100 chicken eggs, 1,000 boxes of dried fish and dried meat, 70 boxes of milk, sugar, cooking oil, fish sauce, fruits and vegetables with a total value of VND500 million.
Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF)’s Binh Thuan Chapter receives donations from the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. (Photo: NDO/Dinh Chau) Chairwoman of the VFF’s Binh Thuan Chapter Bo Thi Xuan Linh expressed her thanks to their donors, pledging to allocate and deliver the gifts workers and households in pandemic-hit areas as soon as possible. * The Ba Ria – Vung Tau provincial authorities have approved an aid package worth VND47.3 billion to support 38,000 workers affected by COVID-19 in the province, following the Government issued Resolution 68/NQ-CP on some policies to support employees and employers hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Relevant agencies have created the best possible conditions and simplified procedures for needy people and small traders to receive the aid. Source: Nhan Dan Online |
