Vietnamese compatriots in the Czech Republic

According to United Nations data, crisis in Ukraine has displaced more than 4.3 million people from the country.

The wave of displacement has led to activities across Europe to help refugees. In particular, the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic has had many meaningful activities. Euronews recently published an article about Noble gesture this.

Vietnamese people in the Czech Republic organize to collect relief goods for Ukrainian refugees in Prague, Czech Republic Facebook group Parenting

Actively helping refugees

One of the organizations active in helping Ukrainian refugees is Parenthood. This is a Vietnamese community in Prague, the Czech capital, created to help Vietnamese people better integrate into life in foreign lands.

“When conflict broke out, we thought we had to do something,” Euronews quoted Nga Dao, a member of Parenthood, as saying.

According to Ms. Nga Dao, Be Parents contacted a number of other organizations to ask if they could help the Ukrainian refugees, then called on the Vietnamese community to donate a truck full of children’s clothes and clothes. women. However, at that time, the relief collection points announced to stop accepting items.

Therefore, the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic decided to open their own relief collection point. Ms. Nga Dao said they had obtained a large amount of food, drinking water, baby strollers, diapers and many other items after asking for donations. “Not only Vietnamese, Czech people also often bring items to our place to support refugees. I am very grateful for this action”, Ms. Nga Dao confided.

Besides, Be Parents also open free Czech language classes for Vietnamese children from Ukraine. Ms. Nga Dao said that the class had already started a few classes and expressed hope that the children would soon catch up with their classmates.

Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said more than 300,000 people had come from Ukraine to the country. According to Euronews, Vietnamese Ambassador to the Czech Republic Thai Xuan Dung last week said that more than 5,000 Vietnamese citizens have also left Ukraine for neighboring countries, of which about 300 have come to the Czech Republic. Dung estimates that about 7,000 Vietnamese were in Ukraine before the conflict broke out.

Ambassador Dung said that the Vietnamese mission had called on the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic to raise more than 20,000 euros (about 496 million VND). Half of this money was sent to the Vietnamese embassies in Poland and Romania to help buy essential items. The rest is donated to local organizations that are supporting Ukrainian refugees such as the Prague Fire and Rescue Service.

The community is growing stronger

According to Ms. Lucie Pštrosová, a spokeswoman for the Institute Education Czech – Vietnamese, a non-profit organization also participates in supporting the Refugees Ukraine, the above activities show that the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic has integrated very well.

A 2019 study found that Ukrainians make up the largest proportion of the expatriate community in the Czech Republic, followed by Slovaks. The Vietnamese are the third largest expat community here, accounting for about 1% of the Czech population.

The Nguyen surname is currently the eighth most common surname in the Czech Republic. Pho has also become a favorite dish of the Czech people.

The relationship of the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic with the locality has also improved a lot during the pandemic Covid-19. In the early months of the outbreak, Vietnamese groups and associations quickly supported the fight against the epidemic, from donating to charities to sewing cloth masks.