Doctors from Dong Do Hospital, TikToker Le Anh Nuoi and other donors provided free health checkups and advice, and medicines for local residents, and presented gifts to 70 households in the commune’s Cap Ven, Huoi Nieng and Huoi Ca hamlets, each including blankets, winter clothes, necessities, rice and noodles. As many as 172 students of Cap Ven and Na Lua school facilities also received gifts and food under the programme, whose funding surpassed 300 million VND (12,369 USD).

The programme also featured art exchanges and zero-dong booths, and offered free haircuts to local students and residents.

The annual programme demonstrates Vietnamese people’s tradition of “the intact leaves protect the tattered ones”, and aims to tighten the solidarity between border guards and local residents.