During his meeting on Tuesday with local relevant agencies, municipal People’s Committee Vice Chairman Dang Viet Dung highly praised them for their great efforts in attracting and effectively implementing non-governmental organisation (NGO)-funded projects in the city.  This has helped the city fulfil its targets for ensuring social welfare.

Vice Chairman Dung urged the relevant agencies to make greater efforts to simplify administrative procedures and effectively implement the NGO-funded projects.  The intention is to more effectively use donations from foreign individuals and organisations in order to fulfil the city’s targets of socio-economic development and social welfare.

The MRI scanner donated to the Da Nang General Hospital

To date, a total of 152 foreign NGOs, international organisations and foreign businesses have been involved in charity aid in the city.

In 2015, over 90 humanitarian programmes and projects were deployed in the city, in total involving more than 189 billion VND donated by international organisations and foreign NGOs. 

The programmes and projects mainly involved such aspects as healthcare, education, climate change adaptation, rural area upgrading, and helping local disabled people.  Amongst them were the ‘100 Resilient Cities’ (100RC) programme funded by the US Rockefeller Foundation, and a programme to bring English volunteer neonatal nurses to the city’s Maternity and Paediatrics Hospital.  This was funded by Newborns Vietnam, a UK registered charity dedicated to reducing neonatal mortality in the South East Asia region.  Recently, the Singaporean billionaire Harold Chan Soo York donated a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner, worth 33 billion VND, to the Da Nang General Hospital.

In 2016, the city is appealing for international organisations and foreign NGOs to donate between 90 and 100 billion VND to help the city implement its social welfare programmes.