VND 1 Billion Given to Ho Chi Minh City Dioxin Victims as of Lunar New Year

The gifts included cash and Tet presents worth VND 300 million in total. In Cu Chi and Can Gio districts where the largest number of poor victims live, 561 presents were given.

ItaExpress was informed that the total donation has reached VND 1 billion (of which Tan Tao Investment-Industry Corporation donated VND 500 million) to finance health care services, medical treatment, building of compassion houses (VND 208 million); investment capital for doing business (VND 100 million); 32 scholarships to families with descendants of victims in difficult situations or in ethnic minority areas; and VND 645,369,400 presented at the mid-autumn Festival and the Lunar New Year 2008 for providing health care and gifts to agent orange/dioxin victims.

On January 25, 2008, Ms. Dinh Thi My Dung, Vice-Head of Administrative & Personnel Department of Tan Tao Investment-Industry Corporation, Ms. Le Thi Ngot, Standing Vice-President of the Association, and Mr. Pham Thanh Tong, Head of Policy Organization at the Department of Agent Orange/Dioxin Association, in coordination with the standing committee of Cu Chi district Red Cross Association, visited and offered the Tet presents and bestowed three compassion houses to dioxin victims in Cu Chi district. The houses, each worth VND 15 million, were handed over to the families of Ms. Nguyen Thi Thuy, Nguyen Thi Oi, and Nguyen Thi Loan in Phu Trung, Binh Ha Dong and Thai My hamlets.

Ms. Dinh Thi My Dung and Ms. Le Thi Ngot offer the Tet presents to Huynh Thanh Thao, a dioxin victim.

Huynh Thanh Thao, on behalf of dioxin victims in Cu Chi district, expresses her gratitude to theAssociation and Tan Tao Group	Cu Chi tunnel includes 2000 dioxin/agent orange victims (accounts for 50% of dioxin victims in the whole city)
Mrs My Dung offers presents to dioxin victims	Granting the decision to offer the compassion house.
As of the Lunar New Year, the family owns a new house beside the old one	Mrs Le Thi Ngot and Mrs. My Dung unveil the certifying board of Mrs. Nguyen Thi Thuy ‘s compassion house.

The representatives of the Group, the Association, the Authority and the local people share the happiness of owning a new house with the family of Mrs. Nguyen Thi Oi.