(VOVworld) – President Truong Tan Sang, Honorary President of the Vietnam Red Cross Society, has praised the organization’s performance in the first 6 months of the year.

During this period, the organization mobilized 75 million USD to support nearly 13,000 disadvantaged people nationwide. President Truong Tan Sang said that the organization’s programs to support people in border areas have helped to reduce local poverty and safeguard national sovereignty. He asked the organization to support fishermen and marine police and fisheries resources surveillance forces amid complications in the East Sea and work on measures to improve its performance in the coming years.