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Volunteers participate in running at the launching ceremony of the Campaign "Millions of Compassionate Steps - Continuing the Golden History" in response to Humanitarian Month 2025 and the Met Fair Run - Dinh Boi Festival in Huu Lung Town 2025

Millions of steps of kindness is a running and walking campaign launched by the Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRC) on the web/mobile/app vRace platform. Participants can run and walk freely anywhere, at any time, just record the distance on smart mobile devices. This not only helps to improve their health but also creates funds to support people in difficult circumstances with 1,000 VND/km to support the Humanitarian Fund of the Vietnam Red Cross Society.

Ms. Nong Bich Thuan, President of the Provincial Red Cross Association, said: The campaign "Million steps of kindness" is organized to promote the spirit of health training, positive lifestyle, community solidarity, and together foster the patriotic tradition of the nation. For Lang Son province, the Provincial Red Cross Association has soon issued a plan to implement the campaign in October 2024; assigned implementation targets to units (each district strives to achieve over 7,000 km) and organized a launching ceremony to respond to the campaign in January 2025.

In 2025, the "Million Steps of Kindness" Campaign launched by the Central Committee of the Vietnam Red Cross Society will take place from November 23, 2024 to April 28, 2025. The kick-off phase will take place from November 23, 2024 to February 2, 2025; the breakthrough phase will take place from February 3 to March 9, 2025 and the finishing phase will take place from March 10 to April 28, 2025. The campaign aims to attract 200,000 people to participate in sports (walking or jogging and recording achievements via the VRace application) to reach 5 million km, corresponding to a fundraising budget of 5 billion VND. This resource will be used by the Central Committee of the Vietnam Red Cross Society to organize humanitarian assistance activities nationwide.

Along with strong propaganda activities about the campaign on social networking sites (Zalo, Facebook ...), creating videos , graphics to guide cadres, members, volunteers and people to install the application, participate in the campaign ..., some localities also flexibly integrate propaganda and launch with community activities and local festivals. For example, in Huu Lung district, in early February 2025, the district Red Cross Association coordinated with the People's Committee of Huu Lung town and the Dong Que Running Club to organize the launching ceremony of the Campaign "Millions of steps of charity - Continuing the golden history" in response to the Humanitarian Month 2025 and the Met Fair Run - Huu Lung Town Swimming Festival 2025, attracting more than 200 participants.

Along with that, the Provincial Red Cross Association promptly recognized and commended individuals and groups that were active and had high achievements in the campaign. In 2024, the Provincial Red Cross Association honored and awarded certificates of recognition to 7 groups and 7 individuals with outstanding achievements in the "Million Steps of Kindness" Campaign.

Thereby, the campaign has increasingly spread, attracting a large number of people in the province to participate in health training and contribute part of their efforts and volunteer programs towards people in difficult circumstances. According to statistics from the Provincial Red Cross Association, after the end of the campaign, the whole province had 24 teams with more than 5,340 volunteers participating in running (an increase of more than 2,340 volunteers compared to 2024), walking over 345,250 km (an increase of more than 290,000 km compared to 2024), ranking top 4 nationwide.

Mr. Hoang Truong Thi, Chairman of the Van Quan District Red Cross Association - the leading unit of the campaign in the province, said: In order for the campaign to spread more and more, in addition to promoting propaganda, we also advised the District People's Committee to issue documents on assigning targets to units in the district and regularly coordinate to inspect and urge the implementation. After the end of the campaign, most units achieved and exceeded the assigned targets. The whole district had more than 1,380 participants registered to run and walk through the vRace application and walked and ran more than 104,670 km.

In particular, with the distance achieved, participants have mobilized and mobilized nearly 350 million VND from accompanying businesses to organize and implement charity activities, helping people in difficult circumstances across the country.

Ms. Le Thi Hoa, a volunteer from Huu Hung district, said: Responding to the "Million Steps of Kindness" campaign, every day, I spend some time in the early morning or late afternoon to run and encourage my relatives and friends to join. After finishing the campaign, I ran more than 1,670 km. I am very happy because my daily work brings "double benefits", both protecting my health and sharing with people in difficult and less fortunate circumstances in society.

It can be seen that the campaign "Million steps of kindness" has increasingly spread, not only contributing to building the habit of regular exercise and health training for people in the area but also promoting a positive lifestyle and community cohesion. Every step, every small action has a noble humanitarian meaning, bringing hope to the disadvantaged who need the sharing of the community.

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