​On the morning of October 25, 2024, in Bien Hoa city, the Union of Friendship Organizations of Dong Nai province organized the 2024 training course on foreign non-governmental affairs. Attending the course were Ms. Do Thi Kim Dung - Deputy Head of the People's Aid Coordinating Committee, Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations; Ms. Dang Thi Xuan Tham - Standing Member of Dong Nai provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee; Mr. Nguyen Thanh Tri - President of Dong Nai province Union of Friendship Organizations; Mr. Nguyen Van Binh - Deputy Director of Dong Nai province Department of Health and approximately 300 trainees who are officials, civil servants, public employees  working in departmentssectors, agencies, schools in localities, members of friendship associations...

Mr. Nguyen Thanh Tri - President of Dong Nai province Union of Friendship Organizations delivering an opening speech at the 2024 training course on foreign non-governmental affairs

Delivering the opening speech, President of Dong Nai province Union of Friendship Organizations Mr. Nguyen Thanh Tri shared: Dong Nai province Party Committee and People's Committee always pay attention to and identify foreign non-governmental affairs as an important channel of people-to-people diplomacy in implementing the foreign policy and guidelines of our Party and State. Over the past time, Dong Nai province has gradually built a favorable and proactive legal environment in foreign non-governmental affairs. Sofar, Dong Nai province has established cooperative relationships with 62 foreign non-governmental organizations (NGO). During the 2019 – 2025 period, Dong Nai province has received 185 foreign non-governmental grants with a total committed value worth about 17,243,898 USD, equivalent to more than 431 billion dong. NGO projects in the province, including sources of social responsibility implementation of FDI enterprises and businesses participating in supporting medical supplies to prevent and control the Covid - 19 pandemic, have followed the orientation of prior fields and areas of the province, contributing to economic and social development, improving people's lives, supporting the prevention, control, and treatment of Covid -19 in the province. However, awareness of foreign non-governmental affairs samong a part of officials and civil servants in agencies, units and localities in the province is not complete, they are still afraid, simply consider foreign non-governmental affairs as an economic aid. They haven’t yet realized that it connects and boosts the building and establishment of cooperative relationships and friendly solidarity between the People of Dong Nai province and those of other countries.

Ms. Do Thi Kim Dung - Deputy Head of the People's Aid Coordinating Committee, Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations is the trainer of the course

At the training course, the attendees were given an overview of the situation of foreign non-governmental affairs and notable issues in implementing, receiving, managing and using NGO aid sources by Ms. Do Thi Kim Dung - Deputy Head of the People's Aid Coordinating Committee, Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations. She shared that the training course will help the trainees better understand about NGO affairs and the effectiveness of NGO aid, sothat they can apply to practical situations at their localities and working position.

Also on this occasion, the representative of the foreign non-governmental affairs Division - Union of Friendship Organizations of Dong Nai province reported a summary of the results and notable contents of the foreign non-governmental aid mobilization and cooperation promotion in Dong Nai province.