“Swallow 2009” Award has entered the stage of community assessment

Ending the 1^st stage, (24.00 of May 22, 2009) the award’s organization board had received 120 candidacy and nomination documents consisting of 63 individual documents and 57 group documents. After the preliminary classification process to reject documents which do not meet the requirements, 92 documents, including 42 individual documents and 50 group documents, has entered the community assessment stage.

During this stage, the documents which have been uploaded to the website will not be allowed to be changed in terms of content. The organization board will continue to receive candidacy or nomination documents for groups and individuals at the website or through the email [email protected]. The documents which meet the requirements in terms of content and forms introduced by the organization board will be uploaded to the website http://vicongdong.vn to participate in the assessment round of the community.

The stage of online community assessment at the website www.vicongdong.vn started from 00.00 of May 25 2009 and will end at 24.00 of June 15, 2009. 20 group documents and 20 individual documents with highest marks will enter the third round.

The criteria for assessing and marking individuals are: community spirit, effective operation and long-term views and orientation

The criteria for assessing and marking groups are: organizational structure, good personnel, effectively deployed projects and activities, prospective action plans for the future (2009 and other following years).

Each criterion will be assessed on the marking scale of 1 – 5. Activated accounts at the website http://vicongdong.vn are obliged to mark all the three criteria for each group or individual so that the result can be recognized, which is the total mark of all the three criteria. The assessment mark for each document is the total marks it get from assessment by accounts at the website.

Mr. Do Huu Hung, Head and Representative of the organization board, said: “Although this is the first time that “Swallow 2009” Award has been organized, the quality of documents are very high. The 50 group documents entering into the 2^nd round consists of documents of almost all typical action groups and associations during the past time, such as Young Vietnamese, Green Wish, Act together, Warm Winter … At the same time, there are also many representative faces in voluntary charitable activities, such as Mr. Nguyen Cong Hung, Mr. Trinh Cong Thanh… The participation of community “knights” and effective action groups in “Swallow 2009” Award will encourage many more organizations and individuals to contribute to the community. The society will have more good examples and the community will have more good actions; that’s what “Swallow 2009” Award wishes to achieve.”

“Swallow 2009” Award was officially launched by FPT Corporation on April 15, 2009 to honour groups and individuals who have had excellent voluntary charitable activities in Vietnam in 2008.

The award has been organized at the website www.vicongdong.vn since April 2009 and will end in June 2009.

Ms. Ngo Phuong Lan – Miss Vietnam Global 2007, President of the Starfish Charity, will be the image representative of this humane award.

TienPhongBank and Vietnam Airlines are the co-sponsors for this award. Tien Phong Newspaper is the information sponsor.

For more information, please contact:

Ms. Hoang Ngoc Quy

“Swallow 2009” Award Communication Board
Tel.: 04.73007300
Fax: 04.37689067
HP: 0974181889
Email: [email protected]

Mr. Le Xuan Khoa
“Swallow 2009” Award Communication Board
Tel.: 04.37687630, ext. 506
Fax: 04.37688411
HP: 0989067941
Email: [email protected]