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Submitted by maithuy on Fri, 06/17/2011 - 17:18
A thousand people will join a 42 day walk through Vietnam from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, from July 2 to August 12 to aid victims of Agent Orange/dioxin and poor students, and help rebuild schools.

The participants, who were chosen from 10,000 entries and trained for four months prior to the event, will walk over 1,560km through 16 cities and provinces supported along the way by 100,000 other volunteers.

Le Thanh Nam, General Director of the Trans-Viet Journey project, said the event marks the 100th anniversary of the day President Ho Chi Minh leaving Vietnam to seek ways for national salvation (June 5, 1911), the 50th anniversary of AO defoliants being sprayed on Vietnam by the US, and to respond to the United Nations “Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020”.

The third annual walk plans to mobilise one million SMSs to support AO/dioxin victims, grant over 1,000 gifts and scholarships to poor students, and hold eight musical galas to raise funds for the poor, as well as rebuild and upgrade eight schools and organise 32 programmes to popularise using computers in communities.

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