HEDO, a domestic non-governmental organisation, received the Labour Order, third class, while Director Trinh Ngoc Trinh was awarded the Labour Order, second class, by the State President for their outstanding contributions to developing education and improving health for people in Vietnam over the past 20 years.

Speaking at the ceremony, Trinh said that HEDO has carried out over 200 programmes and projects, benefiting people in mountainous areas of 43 cities and provinces across the country.

Those projects have helped build centres for illiteracy and provide equipment for vocational training centres and scholarships for students and teachers in mountainous areas to study in major education centres in the country and abroad.

Besides, HEDO has supported farmers in those areas in applying science and technology to production.