NGOs grant nearly US$2 million to port city Hai Phong

Ten non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from seven countries have agreed to put up nearly US$2 million for the northern port city of Hai Phong.

Their commitments were made during a meeting between the city’s People’s Committee and more than 40 international donors and NGOs on May 13.

At the meeting, the local authorities listed eight major fields which need foreign assistance including agro-forestry-fishery, healthcare, education and vocational training, environmental protection, and science-technology.

Hai Phong has established relations with about 100 foreign NGOs, which have poured tens of million of dollars into the city’s 304 projects on health care, agriculture and rural development, education and vocational training, and humanitarian programmes over the past four years.

In 2008 alone, they spent US$13 million on 98 projects.

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