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The Agent Orange (AO) Fund of the Viet Nam Red Cross Society has over the past nine years raised more than 152 billion VND (9.5 million USD) to support AO victims throughout the country.
A portion of the funds was doled out to provide 425,000 beneficiaries with micro-business start up capital, health care services, corrective surgery, wheelchairs, vocational training, allowances and scholarships, said Tran Duc Phan, managing director of the fund, at a press briefing in Ha Noi on August 9.
From 2002-2005, the government allocated close to 9 billion VND (roughly 562,000 USD) for surgeries and rehabilitation treatment for AO victims in the southwestern province of Tay Ninh and the Central Highlands, Phan said, adding that the figure will rise to 16.3 billion VND between the 2006-2010 period.
He added that many foreign organisations have played an important role in delivering services to the suffers. They include the Ford Foundation, the Norwegian Agency for Cooperation and Development, the Belgium-Viet Nam Friendship Association, the US Fund for Reconciliation and Development, and Red Cross Societies from the US, Norway, Germany, Denmark, the UK and Spain.
Phan said the Viet Nam Red Cross Society is also organising a photo and writing contest to depict the lives of those affected with various related diseases from AO to mark this year’s Day of AO Victims, which falls on August 10.
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