Huynh Thi Thu Huyen, 39, residing in Da Nang’s Hai Chau District is known for her tireless charitable activities over the past 7 years.

Mrs Huyen (2nd left) and her club members in a volunteer trip to northwestern provinces

The Da Nang native woman has started to get involved in charitable work since raising funds for a free medical examination and treatment programme in 2012. After that, she realised that there were a lot of people in need of help. Then, she has call on her friends and relatives to cook and provide free meals for hospital patients in need.

With the active support from her friends and family members, Mrs Huyen has established the ‘Uoc Mo Xanh’ (Blue Dream) Club with like-minded members.

Since her charity club was set up, Mrs Huyen has won the trust of many philanthropists at both home and abroad. She has become a bridge connecting generous donors from both home and abroad with disadvantaged people in the city.

Mrs Huyen (left) receiving used books and clothes from a philanthropist

Every month, the kind-hearted woman and her club members give free portions of rice soup to poor patients in the city-based hospitals, the elderly in centres for social protection, and AO-affected people in the Care Centre for AO Victims.

Several times a year, Mrs Huyen visits and presents gifts to poor people in the provinces of Quang Nam, Kom Tum and Quang Tri, and in other mountainous areas in northern provinces. Besides, she has become actively involved in giving means of livelihood to the poor across the city.

Mrs Huyen at her ‘Blue Dream’ coffee shop

In early 2019, Mrs Huyen built the ‘Blue Dream’ coffee shop with the aim of raising funds for her charitable activities. Accordingly, she deducts 1,000 VND from the actual price of each of cups of coffee to the Club's charity funds.