Due to the negative impact of the current COVID-19 wave, this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on September 21, in Da Nang is not as bustling as in the pre-pandemic years. In order to bring the special festival full of love and joy for local kids amid COVID-19, the municipal Youth Union has organised door-to-door delivery of gifts to children and many other highly meaningful activities for them.

Deputy Secretary of the Da Nang Youth Union Nguyen Ba Duan (right) presents Mid-Autumn Festival gifts to disadvantaged children

Deputy Secretary of the municipal Youth Union Nguyen Ba Duan said, in order to bring something joyful to children amid COVID-19, his agency and the municipal chapter of the Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneers Organisation cooperated with the municipal Association of Charities and Children's Rights Protection to organize the programme entitled ‘Mid-Autumn Festival for Children’.

Under the programme, gifts containing cash, facemasks, antiseptic water and milk worth a total value of VND90 million to 300 children from poverty-stricken families and their parents being workers in industrial parks

In addition, the municipal chapter of the Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneers Organisation and the Da Nang Children's Palace jointly award the children's playing area worth VND100 million and gifts worth VND15 million to 30 disadvantaged children in Lien Chieu District.

In order to ensure healthy entertainment for children and meet the city's pandemic prevention and control requirements, program "Full Moon Festival", launched by the Da Nang Children's Palace will be aired at 7:30pm on Tuesday on its facebook page.

Sinde September 16 to now, 2,788 gifts valued at a sum of over VND1 billion have been given out to needy kids citywide, in addition to programes highlighting counseling services on psychology, health and nutrition for young people during home learning, educating children on social practice skills and injury prevention skills, as well as the launching of many suitable online playgrounds for children to enjoy the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Members from the Lien Chieu District Youth Union chapter join the making lanterns from such recycled items as beer cans and plastic bottles as gifts for children on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival. According to Secretary of the Mid-Autumn Festival Youth Union of Lien Chieu District Huynh Thanh Binh, due to the complicated developments of COVID-19, the door-to-door delivery of Mid-Autumn gifts to children is launched.

Each gift consists of one lantern like this and VND 400,000 in cash.

The Youth Union chapter of Binh Hien Ward, Hai Chau District, organises the home delivery of Mid-Autumn Festival gifts to children in difficult circumstances.

The Youth Union chapter of Binh Hien Ward presents gifts to 55 children in an aim of giving them a joyful atmosphere on their special occasion.

Acting as ‘Chu Cuoi’ (Moon boy), Vo Xuan Than, a Youth Union member in Chinh Gian Ward, Thanh Khe District (left ) is one of the 15 delivery men, locally known as ‘shippers’, who task themselves with giving gifts to 130 disadvantaged children in the ward.

Youth Union members in Thanh Binh Ward, Hai Chau District,getting dressed in the costumes of Chu Cuoi and Hang Nga, the legendary duo who floated away with a cinnamon tree during a storm, all the way up to the moon, give Mid-Autumn gifts to children in the ward.

Wearing a protective costume with a lion's head, a local volunteer group’s members present gifts and perform lion dance for children living in alley No. 135 Ton Dan street, Hoa An Ward, Cam Le District.

Reporting by XUAN SON – Translating by A.T