With the motto "Connecting hearts - Sharing love", the ‘Hoa Uu Dam’ Volunteer Club in Da Nang has implemented numerous charitable activities and meaningful humanitarian deeds, bringing joy and happiness to poor families, patients, lonely elderly, disadvantaged individuals, and those facing difficulties within the community.

Ms. Nguyen Minh Xuan Thao, from the Hoa Uu Dam Volunteer Club, distributed meals to urban environmental workers during night shifts on the streets of Da Nang

Established in 2013, the ‘Hoa Uu Dam’ Volunteer Club has attracted nearly 50 volunteers from various professions and age groups.

The Hoa Uu Dam Club is renowned not only for its charitable activities in most hospitals within the city to support poor patients and those in difficult circumstances, but also for supporting essential supplies for highland students, distributing warm clothes through the "Warm Winter with Kids" programme, caring for orphans, organising Mid-Autumn Festival gifts for children in shelters, providing gifts and necessities to people in highland areas through the "Warm Tet in Highlands" programme, and conducting charity fairs.

As the founder of the club, Ms. Nguyen Thuy Hong My Le Dung shares the desire to assist the disadvantaged and vulnerable in society, accompany young children on their journeys to overcome educational and life challenges, and ensure that poor labourers have hearty meals. All members of the club contribute to the community with love and sharing, following the principle that "happiness is multiplied when shared", thereby contributing to social peace.

The club not only carries out charitable activities in Da Nang but also in difficult mountainous areas of Quang Nam, Kon Tum, Quang Ngai, Quang Tri and Ha Tinh provinces.

To ensure funding for charitable activities, along with contributions from its members, the club appeals to the public for support to aid the sick, implement support programmes for patients and the disadvantaged, provide shelters for children and elderly care facilities, financial aid, food supplies, necessary items, support heart surgeries, eye surgeries, build nursing homes, public playgrounds, provide transportation to school, and organize annual programmes such as "Warm Winter", "Visiting the Lonely Elderly".

As shared by Ms. Nguyen Thi Minh Anh, a member of the Hoa Uu Dam Club, the club members are deeply committed to their work. They usually mobilise resources and go directly to deliver love, conveying the sincere intentions of kind-hearted people and benefactors to those in need.

In recent years, on the 25^th of each month, Hoa Uu Dam Club members usually deliver meals consisting of bread and boxed milk to urban environmental workers cleaning the city streets or to poor labourers collecting recyclables. Each distribution supports over 100 individuals. Ms Anh expressed that they bring not just bread and milk but also many messages like 'Sharing love to receive love.'

At the same time, on Hung Vuong Street, Ms Nguyen Minh Xuan Thao also delivered the last batch of gifts to a female urban environmental worker. Meanwhile, Mr Tran Van Ngoc completed meaningful work by sincerely sending gifts to an elderly lottery ticket seller at the corner of Le Duan Street.

After three hours wandering through various streets in districts of Son Tra, Ngu Hanh Son, Hai Chau and Thanh Khe to distribute all meals to beneficiaries, club members bid farewell to each other around 10:00 pm. Everyone's faces showed happiness for bringing warm human sharing to a city worth living in.

Reporting by MINH ANH – Translating by T.VY