Meals of Hope – Decent food for those needed due to COVID-19

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Despite Vietnam’s initial success in the efforts to control the first three outbreaks in 2020 and early 2021, the country has recently been hit hard by the fourth wave of the COVID-19[1] pandemic since April 27^th 2021:  37 out of 63 provinces and municipalities in Vietnam has been heavily affected by the pandemic, of which Ho Chi Minh City, Bac Giang and Bac Ninh Provinces are the three biggest clusters. The numbers of positive cases are 288, 2,678 and 951 respectively, which has resulted in 10 million people being kept in social distancing in Ho Chi Minh city and hundreds of thousands of people quarantining at home or at centralized quarantine areas in Bac Giang and Bac Ninh.

As of June 14^th, 2021, there were 10,337 confirmed cases with 58 deaths of COVID-19 in Vietnam, which was more than double the previous number of confirmed cases in the previous three waves combined. Especially, with the newfound dangerous variant, which is highly transmissible, it is still uncertain how long until the impact of this wave lingers.

It is certain that the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted people from all walks of life in Vietnam in different ways. People are losing their jobs and unable to earn income to support themselves and their families. Mobility is strictly restricted, making more and more people, children, elders, health care workers getting more difficult to access to decent food on daily basis.

In response to these dire circumstances and in hope of assisting the people in need during these difficult times, the Meals of Hope – Decent food for those needed due to COVID-19 initiative aims to support the most needy groups in Bac Ninh, Bac Giang and Ho Chi Minh City with one-month worth of food and nutrition needs.

 

With your kind contribution, AFV will provide meals for 15 days to 6,300 people and children affected by the COVID-19 pandemic: Deliver 1,500 composed boxes of quality food items to approximately 6,300 people in 1,500 affected households. Each box will include basic food items such as rice, meat, egg, vegetable, fish sauce, and cooking oil. The items will provide to each person in a household of four around 15 nutritious meals for 15 days, which makes up to a total of 94,500 meals. The size and composition of the food boxes is tailored to local preferences, demographic profiles, existing level of malnutrition and diseases.

 

Dear friends,

If you care about your beloved’s safety, do something about it. Let’s join hands to act together, so that people, children in the frontline will be able to make us all safe.

Every single $1 matters for AFV to bring meals to the table of the ones most in need across our country. Joining hands with us TODAY!

 

Bank account information: 

Account name: Quỹ Hỗ trợ chương trình, dự án an sinh xã hội Việt Nam

Account number: 002 1 000 368 863 (VND)

Bank name: Ngân hàng Ngoại thương Việt Nam – Chi nhánh Hà Nội – Phòng giao dịch số 3

 

Please follow this syntax when entering the content of the bank transfer so we can track your order appropriately:

Name<_>Mobile phone number<_>AFVMealsofHope

 Example: Kpor 0982224567 AFVMealsofHope

 

For further assistance, please kindly contact us via our hotlines:

1800 6677

033 479 6557

Or email: Vongtaybeban@afv.vn

 

THANK YOU

 

[1]The Coronavirus (COVID-19) first outbreak was in December 2019, and the first confirmed case in Vietnam was on January 23^rd, 2020. It was later declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11^th, 2020.