During the social distancing period in Hanoi, a team of teachers and young people spend time cooking and packing around 200 free meals each day to help needy workers survive the COVID-19 pandemic.

Despite the sweaty weather in July, many members of the 'Binh An Tro Lai' (Being Peaceful Again) group focused on doing their own tasks, preparing meals for poor workers in Ha Dong District, around nine kilometers away from central Hanoi.

The menu is different from one day to another thanks to the group’s many members being good at cooking, Do Thi Huong said on behalf of the team.

Although each meal does not cost very much, just VND25,000 (US$1.09), it is the group’s gift of love and sharing with the impoverished people during the ongoing outbreak.

All the meals are prepared and packed in a class where a teacher, who is the group’s member, taught literature before the pandemic.

'Binh An Tro Lai' has teamed up with 'Than Toc Ha Noi,' a delivery team, and the Hanoi youth union to accelerate the delivery process, thus helping the needy be able to get hot meals as soon as possible.

The group was scheduled to give free meals to the needy laborers until August 7 given Hanoi's movement restrictions to stall viral spread.

According to Nguyen Duc Tien, standing deputy secretary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union chapter in Hanoi, youth groups have run the program of giving free meals to the poor since the pandemic broke out early last year.

The program has been accelerated significantly since Hanoi was put under the social distancing rules of Directive No. 16 on July 24 to stall COVID-19 infections.

The volunteer groups tried their best to deliver more meals filled with love to poor patients, temporarily unemployed workers, and needy students who were trapped in the city during the pandemic.

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