The award is in recognition of Bob Roberts’ great contributions to promoting humanitarian activities in Vietnam as well as boosting the friendship between Vietnam and the US, Hong said at the granting ceremony in Hanoi.He expressed his hope that the GVI Chairman will continue support for Vietnam’s in the time ahead.Bob Roberts, also Senior Pastor of the US Northwood Church, has raised US$3.5 million for disadvantaged communities in Vietnam since 1995 though GVI programmes in the areas of health care and education.He and his organisation have dispatched more than 2,000 American volunteers to Vietnam to engage in community support activities as a contribution to promoting the Southeast Asian nation’s image to the US.