| “Vietnam adventure Tour “ - A record number of 1,000 chung (square glutinous rice) cakes will be wrapped and boiled in one big pot this week and delivered directly to underprivileged children on the occasion of the Lunar New Year Festival. |
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Recipients
will include children in orphanages and centres for handicapped
children and children infected with HIV/AIDS or suffering from other
serious diseases.
The cakes will be wrapped by Hanoi children, parents, and students.
The record-setting chung
cake pot is part of the “merciful Tet” programme to be held in Hanoi
from February 5-7 by the Ha Lan media and tourism company with support
from non-governmental organizations in Vietnam, the Hanoi Society for
Preventing and Combating HIV/AIDS, and a number of foreign embassies.
A
“merciful Tet” fair will have 100 pavilions, many of them displaying
products made by orphans and disabled children as well as products made
by craft villages.
Many other cultural activities will occur on
the sidelines of the event, including performing lion dances, composing
parallel sentences, seeing off the Kitchen God, and laying fruit
tables, together with many folk games.
A music gala will take
place on February 7 to raise funds for charity and present gifts to 300
disadvantaged children from Hanoi.
The organizers expect “merciful Tet” to become an annual event for children nationwide. |
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(Source:
VNA) |
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