This is the third year that VietNamNet has presented this award to honor the actions and projects of individuals and organizations that have spread humanitarian values in the community.

The three winners, voted by readers, are: Mr. Thai Ngo Hieu - a brave firefighter who plunged into the sea to save four drowning people; Mr. Ho Hoang Liem - a young man who has worked hard to show movies to children in mountainous areas for more than 12 years; and Mr. Le Quang Hieu, one of the three founders of the OpenStack Vietnam Cloud Computing Community.

The brave fireman

With more than 10 years of experience, Captain Thai Ngo Hieu, born in 1989, officer of the Trang Bom Firefighting and Rescue Team of Dong Nai Provincial Police has participated in dozens of dangerous rescue cases in the southern province of Dong Nai.

On April 10, at the beach of Ba Ria - Vung Tau, when he saw four people struggling in the sea, Captain Hieu quickly jumped down to rescue them. His brave action was awarded the Medal of Courage by President Nguyen Xuan Phuc. Hieu was promoted beyond rank by the Minister of Public Security, General To Lam.

The teacher and relative of mountainous children 

Mr. Ho Hoang Liem, 33, in Son Tra district, Da Nang city is the head of the Nu Cuoi Hong (Pink Smile) group. Over the past 12 years, Liem and his team members have worked hard to "carry" electricity and movies to students in mountainous areas;  organize the “winter coat program”, in which nearly 10,000 coats were provided to children in mountainous areas; help people in flood and storm hit areas; and  organize operations for children with cleft lip and cleft palate.

Liem hopes that in 2023, he and his team will bring more smiles to upland children.

The man who wants to put Vietnam's name on the world technology map

Le Quang Hieu is one of the three founders of the OpenStack Vietnam Cloud Computing Community, who was selected by the OpenStack World Foundation to be its representative in Vietnam. He is the leader of Vietnam's largest cloud computing solution vCloud.

After a time working for Fujitsu Vietnam, Hieu felt sad when he saw the absence of Vietnam on the cloud map. This prompted him to do something to elevate Vietnam's cloud computing on the world map. In 2018, Hieu returned to Viettel to contribute to building a strong corporation. He is a pioneer in making cloud computing a successful technology trend in Vietnam.

PV