Overview
From October to November 2020, constant typhoons with heavy rains caused the highest flood levels in the past 100 years, pushing people in the provinces from Ha Tinh to Quang Nam to live with heavy flooding, massive landslides, destroyed infrastructure, damaged houses, and extremely dangerous living conditions. Eight storm disasters killed hundreds of people and left hundreds of thousands of people to barely survive with no food or clean water, no shelter, crops lost, animals drowned and family members missing. In order to urgently assist the suffering communities in the central provinces, especially residents who experienced catastrophic landslides in Nam Tra My district, Quang Nam, VinaCapital Foundation organized the campaign “Our Hearts to Central Vietnam” from October 2020 to January 2021, raising 250,000 USD to implement two phases of relief activities.Phase 1
Organized within 5 days of the first week of the disaster campaign, the “Our Hearts To Central Vietnam” fundraising concert successfully raised 296,670,000 VND with the participation of more than 200 supporters and performances from Singer Phuong Vy, Actor/ Singer Lam Vissay, singer Y Kroc & rapper Benjamin, Korean violinist Jmi Ko, singer Jang Mi and Carol Thao My.
Provided 12,000 people with emergency relief packages of basic food and necessities to ensure survivors’ short-term health until more sustainable assistance arrived. The package’s value was a total of 70,000 USD.
Phase 2
The campaign’s main focuses in Nam Tra My district is the restoration of 10 battered rural commune healthcare centers, the district hospital and 30,000 people who suffer.
Results (Data from June 2021 to October 2021):
- 12,557 beneficiaries from the reconstruction of all destroyed medical facilities.
- 04 mobile healthcare clinics for 3,133 people.
- 33,084 beneficiaries from 11 water filtration systems and 6,660 beneficiaries from new medical equipment for 11 medical facilities.
- Training for local health workers to support the local capacity to diagnose and treat the overwhelming number of ill and injured people in trauma situations.
Program's achievements since establishment
Since 10/2020:
- 12000 people who receive an emergency relief package consisting of food and basic necessities
- 4 medical facilities repaired
- 3133 people in 4 communes received free health examinations
- 11 medical facilities received clean water filtration systems and a standard kit of medical equipment.
Overview
Throughout the outbreaks of Covid-19, VinaCapital Foundation implemented emergency response projects to assist affected beneficiary children and their families, provide critical medical equipment including ventilators, personal protection equipment (PPE) and other needs for Covid-19 treatment hospitals and frontline healthcare workers, especially in Ho Chi Minh City and hard hit surrounding provinces.2020:
“TOGETHER WE SAVE CHILDREN’S HEARTS” ONLINE CAMPAIGN: Supported 44 children with congenital heart defects and 8 families during the first COVID-19 outbreak in Vietnam.
IN HO CHI MINH CITY: Over $115,000 fundraised for protective gear equipment for hospitals
- 40,000 medical masks & 135,000 gloves
- 200 hand sanitizers & 5,000 cloth masks
- 500kg of chloramine B
- 3 ventilators
- 5 tons of rice were distributed over 4 districts.
IN DA NANG CITY: 500 million VND fundraised for protective gear
- 3,000 protective gears & 3,000 face shields
- 12,500 4-layered masks & 500 VN-95 masks
- 300 hand sanitizers
2021:
As the fourth wave of COVID-19 strengthened and the number of newly infected cases increased dramatically, the fundraising campaign “Help Vietnam Breathe – Vì Nhịp Thở Việt Nam” was implemented by the VinaCapital Foundation (VCF) to provide critical medical equipment including ventilators, personal protection equipment (PPE) and other needs for Covid-19 treatment hospitals and frontline healthcare workers, especially in Ho Chi Minh City and hard hit surrounding provinces.
VCF and “Help Vietnam Breathe – Vì Nhịp Thở Việt Nam” collaborated with the Fatherland Front Committee of HCMC and other provincial authorities to distribute the equipment to facilities in most critical need. The campaign was also honored to have the support of famous artists and celebrities all over the country to spread the meaningful message of the program and promote our efforts.
Our Achievements since inception
Our achievements after 5 months:
- 1200000 USD raised
- 57 ventilators delivered
- 1 ECMO Machine
- 10050 sets of PPEs donated to hospitals and medical facilities
- 5393 direct beneficiaries
- 13 handover activities in 6 cities and provinces
