Apart from studying, members of the Care&Share Club have been actively involved in doing charitable activities to help disadvantaged people across the city.

A club member taking a souvenir photo with a single elderly person at the city’s Centre for Social

The club has a total of 22 members who are pupils from the city-based Le Quy Don Senior High School for the Gifted.

The main activities of the club is organising charity trips, and assisting the school’s Youth Union organisation to develop plans for charities.

In order to raise funds for charity activities, the club members sell their handmade keychains and 'li xi' envelopes on public holidays, including Tet Festival.

Over the past year, the club members became actively involved in collecting used textbooks and notebooks in order to present them to poor pupils on the occasion of the new school year.

In 2018 alone, they donated gifts, each comprising 10 notebooks and learning tools, to 35 poor studious pupils in the city-based Village of Hope. In addition, more than 1,000 books and comics were given to the village’s pupils.

In active response to the ‘Swallow Wings of Love’ programme, the club members, along with 36 other pupils from junior and senior high schools citywide, collected old calendars in a bid to make a total of 105 Braille books for visually impaired pupils across the city.

Besides, 50 Tet gifts, funded by the Campus Vietnam organisation, went to pupils at the city-based Support Centre for Inclusive Education under the help of the club members.

In addition, the club donated milk, diapers and necessities to 37 orphaned and Agent Orange-affected children at the Orphan Care Centre of the municipal Red Cross Society.

Under the ‘Happy Colours’ project last May, the club members visited 170 single elderly people living at the city’s Centre for Social Protection.

Quynh Trang, a club member, said in addition to learning how to give and share love with other people, she had the opportunity to meet many lovely friends and improve her teamwork skills as becoming a member of the Care&Share Club.