Lam Dong Red Cross Assists Nearly 7 Million People from 2020 to 2025

Lam Dong Province currently has seven chapters directly under the provincial Red Cross Society, along with 2,978 branches, comprising 111,224 members, 38,892 youths and 14,979 Red Cross volunteers actively engaged across various fields.

During the 2020–2025 period, Red Cross activities and humanitarian movements across the province recorded comprehensive and notable achievements, making significant contributions to social welfare, humanitarian aid and charity. These results have reaffirmed the Society’s core role as a coordinator, connector and driving force in humanitarian efforts.

The total value of emulation movements during the period exceeded VND 1.138 trillion, benefiting more than 6.9 million people. Notably, the campaign “Each Organization and Individual Linked to a Humanitarian Address” supported more than 37,500 humanitarian cases with a total value exceeding VND 62 billion. The “Humanitarian Tet” campaign assisted over 962,000 beneficiaries, with support valued at nearly VND 440 billion, while the Humanitarian Month provided assistance to more than 233,000 people, worth over VND 129 billion.

A wide range of humanitarian programs and models continued to be implemented effectively, including support for poor fishermen, disaster relief, the “Red Cross Rice Jar,” “Piggy Bank Savings,” zero-fee ambulance services, charity kitchens, and nutrition programs for poor and disabled children. Together, these initiatives supported millions of beneficiaries with a total value reaching hundreds of billions of Vietnamese dong.

Community healthcare has remained a priority, with more than one million poor people receiving free medical check-ups, consultations and medicines. The voluntary blood donation movement has been sustained effectively, collecting nearly 120,000 units of blood to meet emergency and treatment needs.

Addressing the conference, Pham Van Duc, Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Lam Dong Province, called on Red Cross chapters at all levels to further innovate their operational approaches, placing people at the center and grassroots communities as the focal point. Humanitarian activities, he emphasized, should be sustainable, providing not only immediate assistance but also opportunities for the poor to improve their livelihoods.

In the coming period, the Lam Dong Provincial Red Cross Society is expected to strengthen the application of information technology in beneficiary management and resource mobilization, ensuring transparency, timeliness and effectiveness. Efforts will also focus on building a strong organizational system and expanding the volunteer network, particularly among youths, schools and businesses. Each Red Cross official should serve as a role model of compassion, while exemplary individuals should be nurtured and replicated to spread humanitarian values and gradually reduce negative social phenomena.

At the conference, one individual was awarded the Prime Minister’s Certificate of Merit for outstanding achievements contributing to the cause of socialist construction and national defense. Fifteen individuals received the commemorative medal “For the Cause of Building and Developing Lam Dong Province” from the Chairman of the Lam Dong Provincial People’s Committee. In addition, one individual and one household were honored with Certificates of Merit for outstanding performance in the emulation movement “For the Poor – Leaving No One Behind” during the 2021–2025 period.

On this occasion, nearly 50 collectives and more than 100 outstanding individuals involved in Red Cross activities, humanitarian movements and charitable work during the 2020–2025 period were commended by the provincial authorities and the Lam Dong Provincial Red Cross Society, contributing to the broader dissemination of patriotic emulation movements.