Disadvantaged workers in HCM City receive Tết gifts in 2019. — VNA/VNS Photo Thanh Vũ HCM CITY — With the aim of bringing a happy Tết to everyone, many cities and provinces in the southern region are making efforts to take better care of residents, especially the disadvantaged, during the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday. HCM City plans to spend about VNĐ818 billion (US$35.3 million) to give Tết gifts to those in need, a year-on-year increase of 60 billion ($2.6 million). Trần Ngọc Sơn, vice director of the city’s Department of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs, said this year there has been an increase in the number of recipients compared to last year. Gifts valued at VNĐ3.1 million ($134) each will be presented to 537 Vietnamese heroic mothers, war invalids and revolutionary activists in resistance wars who were affected by chemical toxins. More than 1,230 wounded or ill soldiers, and individuals who have been awarded “Hero of the People’s Armed Forces” and “Labour Hero” titles will receive Tết gifts worth VNĐ1.7 million ($73) each. State employees in the administrative sector from the municipal level to ward and town levels will receive gifts worth VNĐ1.4 million ($60) each. About 306,000 gifts worth VNĐ1.3 million ($56) each will be presented to other beneficiaries of State policies. Gifts worth VNĐ1.25 million ($54) each will… Read full this story
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