The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations has called oninternational organisations to provide emergency aid to storm victims inthe central region.

At a press briefing in Hanoi on October7, the Union announced the results of its fact finding trip to thetwo hardest hit flood provinces of Quang Tri and Quang Binh. It saidlocal people now badly need food, medicines, essential home appliances,seedlings and breeding animals as well as school goods for children.

The organisation also asked for assistance in repairing houses and schools, and building more flood shelters in the region.

Meanwhile, localities nationwide continue to join hands to help the storm victims.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front’s Dong Thap province chapter launched afund raising movement on October 7 and immediately received over 1.4billion VND (65,800 USD) from businesses, organisation and individualsat the launching ceremony.

Earlier, the chapter donated 500 million VND from its own budget.

Thecentral province of Phu Yen province raised 1.1 billion VND,while the northern province of Hung Yen donated more than 800million VND from donations and the provincial budget.

On October7, a delegation of the Golden Heart Houndation under the VietnamGeneral Confederation of Labour handed over relief aid, including 2.5tonnes of rice, 7,000 notebooks and schooling aid and 120 million VND tostorm victims in Ky Ha commune, Ky Anh district, Ha Tinh province.

TyphoonWutip, the 10th to have hit Vietnam so far this year, has causedlosses totalling 11 trillion VND (517 million USD) for central coastalprovinces.

Quang Binh was the hardest hit with losses topping 8trillion VND, followed by Nghe An with 1.3 trillion VND, Ha Tinh with1.17 trillion VND, Thua Thien-Hue with over 300 billion VND, and ThanhHoa with 140 billion VND.

By October 5, the storm had killed 14 people and injured 225 others, while two people were still missing.-VNA