Warm sharing to ease difficulties for vulnerable groups during pandemic

These days, many kind-hearted people have joined hands with the State and the community to help ease difficulties for vulnerable groups stricken by COVID-19.

The Happy Supermarket opens in Hanoi on April 13, offering necessities at zero VND to the disadvantaged to help ease their difficulties during the COVID-19 epidemic. (Photo: NDO/Ngoc Ha)
The Happy Supermarket opens in Hanoi on April 13, offering necessities at zero VND to the disadvantaged to help ease their difficulties during the COVID-19 epidemic. (Photo: NDO/Ngoc Ha)

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In Hanoi, from April 13, the poor, the homeless and the disadvantaged who are in difficult circumstances can come to the “Zero VND Happy Supermarket" at the back of the Grand Plaza building (No. 117 Tran Duy Hung Street) to purchase necessities, such as rice, sugar, peanuts, fish sauce, cooking oil and medicine, free of charge. (Photo: NDO/Ngoc Ha)

Each of them may choose for themselves the five most essential products in a package worth a total value of VND100,000. (Photo: NDO/Ngoc Ha)

The Hanoi’s supermarket is one of a chain of eight supermarkets across the country (in Hanoi, Lang Son, Bac Giang, Bac Ninh, Hai Duong, Thai Nguyen, Hue and Phu Yen), sponsored by the Apec Group and the Khai Tri Fund, aiming to support the community in fighting the COVID-19 epidemic. The donors have invested VND6 billion in purchasing necessities and installing shelves at the special supermarkets. (Photo: NDO/Ngoc Ha)

Each person can make a purchase up to twice a week, with five most essential products each. The supermarket is open from 8 am to 5 pm, every Monday to Friday. (Photo: NDO/Ngoc Ha)

Explaining the name "Happy Supermarket", Pham Duy Hung, Deputy General Director of Apec Group, said: "The COVID-19 epidemic has caused severe social impacts, but it also gives us meaningful messages, helping us to be deeply aware of how happy we are and how each action at the moment means to the disadvantaged." (Photo: NDO/Ngoc Ha)

“For those of us who are in difficult circumstances, these days we have much more difficult problems. Fortunately, there are kind people to help us overcome this difficulty. I am extremely grateful,” Tran Thi Hoan, who came to collect her necessities, said emotionally. (Photo: NDO/Ngoc Ha)

The sign left outside the supermarket reads: "If you're having difficulty, get what you need. If you're okay, please give the chance to others who are disadvantaged." (Photo: NDO/Ngoc Ha)

Also in Hanoi, youngsters under the capital city’s Youth Union are volunteering to offer thousands of free meals to disadvantaged students, workers and locals across Hanoi streets. In this file photo, Hanoi Youth Union members are giving food and necessities to those in need in the Van Phu urban area in Ha Dong District. (Photo: NDO/Ngoc Vy)

Other mobile volunteers are also giving food portions directly to disadvantaged migration students who couldn't return to their hometown during the epidemic. (Photo: NDO/Ngoc Vy)

In the southern province of Tay Ninh, the same model has been deployed by the provincial Youth Union, distributing thousands of “zero VND” meals to the disadvantaged and poor households. (Photo: NDO/Minh Anh)

Tay Ninh Youth Union members preparing free meals…. (Photo: NDO/Minh Anh)

…and distributing to those in need. (Photo: NDO/Minh Anh)

Over the last two weeks, local enterprises and donors in Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province have been offering free necessities for local residents who are struggling amid the epidemic. (Photo: NDO/Nguyen Nam)

The simple gifts, usually a few breads with sausages, chung cakes, drinking water bottles and a few kilograms of rice, are expected to help the poor deal with their daily difficulties during the prevalence of COVID-19. (Photo: NDO/Nguyen Nam)

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