(VOVworld) - The Vietnam Children’s Fund (VCF) reported that last year it raised more than VND95 billion to support 86,300 disadvantaged children and signed funding agreements worth VND111 billion for the coming years.

Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan received benefactors to the Vietnam Children's Fund (Photo: VOV)

This year the Fund aims to mobilize around VND70 billion for 47,000 children with difficulties. Speaking at a meeting with the VCF’s benefactors on Saturday, Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan acknowledged the VCF’s success in mobilizing different resources to support the disadvantaged children. She said currently, there are around 2.6 million children in need. Ms. Doan also expressed her hope that benefactors will continue siding with the VCF to build more schools and help pupils from poor families go to school.