As recovery efforts intensify, businesses, volunteers and residents are providing vital support to frontline workers and affected households.
In Quy Nhon, Quy Nhon laundry production & general trading Co., Ltd. launched a program offering a 50% discount on personal laundry services for power workers, officers, soldiers and reinforcement teams.
The price was reduced to 7,500 VND (about USD 0.30) per kilogram, with pick-up and delivery. Director Dinh Quang Phuong said the company processes laundry for 91 team members daily and ensures next-day delivery despite rising volumes.
Hotels are also joining relief efforts. At the Osaka Hotel in Quy Nhon Ward, response teams from Da Nang Power Company, Da Nang Green Park Company and units from the province’s western region have been provided rooms at discounted rates.
Owner Tran Thi Thu Huong said she cut room prices by 40% and increased food and breakfast allowances, noting that workers often returned late at night, covered in mud.
Amid electricity shortages in rural communes, Xep Accessories Company in Quy Nhon Ward has sourced rechargeable products from powered areas to resell at low prices, covering only transportation costs.
On November 10, the company donated 315 rechargeable lamps and 200 other rechargeable items, valued at 30 million VND (about USD 1,200), to local residents. It also urged people to sell unused devices, which the business would buy, repair and redistribute at low cost or donate to vulnerable households in need of long-lasting power.
Residents have also contributed individual acts of kindness. On November 9, Tran Phuong Trinh of Vo Dinh Tu Street used her own funds to prepare 250 loaves of bread and 250 cartons of milk for frontline workers. She said many workers had not returned home despite their own families suffering storm damage, describing their exhaustion as “heartbreaking”.
Volunteer groups mobilized widespread cleanup operations as well. On November 10, hundreds of youth union members, officials and students from the communes of Xuan An, De Gi, Hoai Nhon and Tam Quan, along with organizations from Quy Nhon and Quy Nhon Nam, cleaned storm-affected beaches.
At Thien Chanh Beach alone, 550 officials and union members, 1,400 students, and 80 staff, teachers and parents from Tam Quan Bac Secondary School joined efforts to restore the environment.
Nguyen Thi Le Thao, Secretary of the Youth Union of the Department of Industry and Trade, said her unit coordinated with the Youth Union of Quy Hoa National Leprosy-Dermatology Hospital and the Binh Dinh Green Coordination Group to mobilize 70 volunteers for a week-long cleanup campaign along Quy Nhon’s central beach.
