FPT University’s outreach for health and wellbeing in 2025 was not built around a single audience. Some of it reached the local community and the wider public; some was aimed specifically at people who face extra barriers to health and stability – ethnic-minority boarding students, families in a remote border commune, and the deaf and hard-of-hearing community; and some helped children from different provinces to build a new place to call home after losing their parents.

1. FPT University Supports the Local Community

Much of FPT University’s 2025 outreach was aimed at its own student community and the broader public around its campuses, through public campaigns and the university’s contribution to a national blood-donation fund.

Mental Health, Safety, and Digital Literacy

In March 2025, Multimedia Communications students and faculty of FPT University Ha Noi campus launched “Là Tớ” (It’s Me) – a campaign built around a sharing talkshow and an original music video, to help young people see identity struggles as a normal part of growing up rather than a personal failure. With the slogan “It’s okay – just be yourself!”, this campaign encourages active participation in activities that equip individuals with the knowledge and tools to better understand themselves, while creating opportunities for them to offer mutual encouragement, sharing, and support.

The “It’s Me” campaign encourages young people to understand and feel confident in themselves.

From March to April 2025, the Student Affairs Department of FPT University organized an AI competition named “Code Arena 2025” for students across the Mekong Delta, in which two of the five finalist teams developed health-related tools. Team Kupokatri presented “Skisen”, an AI application that helps identify and analyze signs of dermatological conditions, supporting users in detecting skin problems that allows for timely and appropriate treatment. On the other hand, team Z-One introduced “AICOMM”, an AI-based communication aid for people who are deaf or hard of hearing that uses sign language translation to make their everyday communication easier. Both initiatives that integrate technology into health-care were highly appreciated, helping to strengthen health and well-being for local communities.

Teams with health-related initiatives secured first and third place at Code Arena 2025.

In June 2025, FPT University lecturers and students developed the “SafeEdu” project – an AI-integrated application designed to raise awareness of drug abuse, school violence, and gender-based prejudice among students and the broader community. The app not only provides information on the harmful effects of drugs, but also features an intelligent virtual assistant for quick lookups, Q&A, and reporting suspicious drug-related activities. Visualized charts offer dynamic insights into drug risks to human health, while an achievement system and engaging minigames incentivize learning through challenging interactive tasks. 

The user-friendly interface of the “SafeEdu” app aims to raise awareness about drugs in the school.

Consequently, the app won first prize in the competition’s community project category and was showcased at the 2025 National Gala hosted by the Ministry of Public Security.

The “SafeEdu” project aims to raise students’ awareness of drug abuse, school violence, gender-based prejudice.

Blood Donation and the One-Day Salary Fund

Much of FPT University’s health-related giving flows through the One-Day Salary Fund (FPT for the Community Fund), an annual charitable initiative where FPT personnel collectively donate a single day’s wages to support social causes and community development. In 2025, that pooled VND 78.8 billion, funded 2,910 units of donated blood, and reached more than 94,100 beneficiaries nationwide.

FPT employees are willing to contribute one day’s salary to the community fund and donate blood nationwide.

On the ground, that translated into events such as “Điều Tử Tế Bay Xa” (Kindness Travels Far), a blood donation drive held simultaneously in Ha Noi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City. On 13 March 2025 at FPT University Da Nang campus, there were nearly 500 people registered for blood donation and finally donated 300 units of blood for those in need.

FPTU staff joined hands to donate blood and show their support at “Kindness Travels Far” event.

2. FPT University Supports People with Disabilities and Vulnerable Groups

Other programmes were built specifically for people who face extra barriers to health, education, or communication: ethnic-minority students in remote boarding schools, families in mountainous areas, and the deaf and hard-of-hearing community.

Hygiene and Clean Water for Communities in Need

FPT University’s community also channels support through “Quỹ Hy Vọng” (the Hope Fund), a charitable fund run in partnership with FPT Corporation and VnExpress. In April 2025, the fund began a new phase of its sanitation and clean-water programme in Bo Trach district, Quang Binh province, building 20 hygiene facilities and a bathhouse with clean-water access for roughly 7,500 students and teachers, including at Bo Trach Ethnic Boarding High School, where students had previously bathed in a river.

Representatives of Opella Vietnam and the Hope Foundation signed an sponsorship agreement on the Hygiene and Clean Water project in 2025.

Across three years of similar projects in Vietnam’s northwest and central provinces, teachers report a measurable difference: 94% saw fewer gastrointestinal illnesses among students, and 91% saw improved attendance, after the facilities were built. Until April 2025, 173 sanitation and bathing facilities have been constructed, alongside awareness-raising on school hygiene and gender issues activities that have provided better living conditions for students and teachers in rural areas.

Restrooms built to Ministry of Education and Training standards in Yen Bai province with support from FPT.

“Mắt Thấy Tay Nghe”: Sign Language and the Deaf Community

In March 2025, at FPT University Can Tho campus, Multimedia Communications students ran “Mắt Thấy Tay Nghe” (Eyes See, Hands Hear) – a campaign with the highlight of “Phiên Chợ Không Lời” (Silent Market) where participants communicated exclusively using sign language. Driven by a desire to create positive social impact, the student team identified a lack of accessible content and communication opportunities for the deaf and hard-of-hearing population, in order to raise awareness among students about the use of sign language and to promote respect for deaf culture.

The “Eyes See, Hands Hear” project promotes the using of sign language and support for the deaf community.

In parallel, the campaign partnered with the Can Tho Deaf Club to ensure professional accuracy and wider community reach and held a sign-language workshop – later featured on Can Tho City Television. Besides, team members also explored the use of AI to eliminate communication barriers between the hearing-impaired and hearing individuals.

The “Eyes See, Hands Hear” project was broadcast on Can Tho City Television, a major local TV channel.

Free Health Check-ups in a Border Commune

In early 2026, the One-Day Salary Fund financed free health check-ups, medicine, and school equipment for more than 530 students in Thuong Trach, a rural commune on the border area of Quang Tri province, delivered together with the local health authorities. This effort not only ensures timely health check-ups and care for the children but also contributes to raising awareness about school health protection in remote and isolated areas of Vietnam.

FPT collaborates to provide free medical check-ups and medicine to about 530 students in border area.

3. FPT University Supports Children Orphaned by COVID-19 from Different Places 

“Hand in Hand to Go Global” is an English-teaching and mentorship project built around a group of children who did not choose to leave their home provinces but had to due to losing both parents to COVID-19, and who are now learning to call Da Nang home instead. Brought together from many different parts of Vietnam, they share what many displaced communities need most: a stable place to belong, and people willing to walk alongside them while they rebuild that sense of belonging. The project exists to be that steady presence, one classroom and one relationship at a time.

FPTU students taught English and provided emotional support to orphan children at Hope School.

FPT University Da Nang campus runs the project directly: student volunteers, mentors, and faculty teach English lessons on a regular basis and stay involved well beyond the classroom, offering steady companionship and emotional support as the children settle into their new city. The relationship runs both ways – the children gain language skills and consistent support, while FPT University students gain real teaching practice and stronger communication skills. In 2025, the project engaged 770 student turns of participation from FPT University Da Nang, reaching around 110 children from different provinces over the phase of the year.

In 2025, the “Hand in Hand to Go Global” project reached out 110 children to build a place to call “home”.

Conclusion

Seen together, FPT University’s 2025 outreach did not treat the local community as one audience. It showed up as public campaigns for students and the wider public, as clean water, medical care, and communication access for groups who need targeted support or face disadvantaged barriers, and as an ongoing mentorship relationship with children who had to build a new sense of home after losing everything familiar. That range – reaching different people from different places in different ways – is what keeps the university’s outreach connected to the actual needs of the communities it serves, rather than a single programme repeated every year.