Themed "Pioneering, Creativity – Leading Change", the gala involved 500 Red Cross members and volunteers from across Vietnam and representatives from 11 Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies abroad.

Delegates met and talked to outstanding members of the movement "Good people, good deeds, working together to build a compassionate community" and other movements related to environmental protection, natural disaster and epidemic response, humanitarian blood donation, and social assistance activities.

Lang Son, Quang Tri, and Lam Dong province introduced their humanitarian models, such as Lam Dong’s charity kitchen model and its "loving vegetarian noodles".

Nguyen Khac Xuan of Lang Son province’s Red Cross Society said, "The model connects members with benefactors. A bowl of our vegetarian noodles costs 1.2 dollars, but the people who come to eat the noodles often pay from 5 to 25 dollars. We’ve collected enough money to help more than 100 people a month."

The gala night is a forum for connecting Vietnamese volunteers with volunteers from other countries.

Nattorn Sornvai, a senior officer for Red Cross Youth Volunteer Activities in Southeast Asia and a member of the Cambodia-Laos-Thailand-Vietnam delegation, said,  “It takes over time for them to build skills and this will be one of the opportunities for them to come abroad, learn the skills, build connections, and go back and develop in their own country.”

“Everything about it, not just physical borderlines but also if you think about the camp’s outcomes when they go back, with the network in the Facebook, in the Instagram, in the TikTok, they'll be friends. The connection is born already within this youth camp,” said Nattorn.

The 6th National Red Cross Youth and Volunteer Camp, themed "Green Volunteering – for a safe and humane community",  concluded on Thursday.