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For many of us, it has been hard to hold back tears while watching or reading about what Japan has been undergoing after the devastating earthquake and tsunami.
What can we do to alleviate and share the pain with our Asian friends?
A girl in Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Thanh District could only cry all night after knowing that the tidal wave had washed off a house where she had lived for long with a hospitable and kind family.
Just three weeks earlier, an elderly woman from a remote town in eastern Japan had come to HCM City to ask Tuoi Tre to help her contact M. H., that very girl.
The woman said: “I love her like my child and, through her, love Vietnam deeply.”
That town has now been devastated by the tsunami. And that gentle Japanese woman has not been contactable since the disaster.
“Japan, try!” is the cry of grief-stricken readers who have been emailing to Tuoi Tre with their prayers and exhortations that we can and should do something to help the Japanese.
The websites of many Vietnamese students in Japan say “Everyone can help with their effort or money. Whatever help they can by everyone will be very useful.”
It has continued to spread on Facebook, Twitter, and YM.
The list of donors in Vietnam is growing longer by the day.
In HCM City, without waiting for appeals, readers have begun to come to Tuoi Tre to contribute what little money they can for Japanese victims.
We are sure you agree the amount is not of consequence; what matters is your compassion and willingness to help the Japanese people, many of whom opened their hearts to help Vietnamese victims of floods in the central region in the past.
We hope that with our small contributions together with those of the rest of the world, the Japanese can quickly get over their losses and sufferings.
We earnestly hope something even worse does not occur – a nuclear disaster.
From today Tuoi Tre will receive donations from its readers to fund relief and rehabilitation efforts in Japan. We appeal to you to contribute generously.
Readers who want to give contributions to Japan disaster victims may contact Tuoi Tre Editorial Office at 60A Hoang Van Thu, Ward 9, Phu Nhuan District, Ho Chi Minh City – Tel: (08) 39971010 / 0918033133 – or Tuoi Tre representative offices in other localities.
Contributions may also be made via bank transfer to Tuoi Tre:
- Vietnam Bank for Industry and Trade (Vietinbank), Ho Chi Minh City Branch No. III – Accounts: 102010000118248 (for dong)
- Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank), Ho Chi Minh City Branch – Accounts: 007.137.0195.845 (for US dollar) and 007.114.0373.054 (for euro)
Source: tuoitrenews
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