11/13 targets exceeded the plan in the 2023 Summer Youth Volunteer Campaign

Bring youth to build the homeland

Last summer, 141 households of the Khmu ethnic group in Coi village, Luong Minh commune, Tuong Duong district received new joy when they received gifts from local Youth Union organizations in coordination with the "Green Summer" volunteer team of the National Economics University.project "Lighting up the country roads"with a total value of nearly 31 million VND. The road leading to the village center, nearly 1 km long, is now illuminated by 30 sturdy lampposts, thanks to which, the village scene is less lonely when night falls. People are also more secure when traveling on the road, the risk of accidents has been significantly reduced.

Also in Luong Minh commune, the joy from the youth volunteer projects was clearly spread in Cham Puong village, when 4 orphaned sisters: Luong Thi Thao (born 2008), Luong Cang Tuong (born 2009), Luong Thanh Nong (born 2011) and Luong An Do (born 2013) were supported by the "blue shirt" brothers and sisters with 120 million VND to build a "Roof of Gratitude". From now on, the children no longer have to worry about living in a house that is about to collapse. Even happier, when the house was completed before the new school year, giving them peace of mind to continue their studies.

In Tuong Duong district, the youth union members and police officers have accompanied the police to transport materials and build houses for 15 households receiving housing support from the Ministry of Public Security; donated 2 volleyball courts and 1 community playground for children, handled 19 black spots of waste, repaired 10 km of roads, contributing to changing the appearance of many villages in the district.

For Thai Hoa town,Summer Youth Volunteer CampaignRecently, the youth project "Qr Code Check in Thai Hoa in me" aims to convey information about the 15-year history of formation and development of Thai Hoa town, providing red addresses, tourism services, destinations, restaurants, and hotels in the town. Digital transformation is also clearly demonstrated through the work of preventing drowning and traffic accidents with an automatic solar-powered broadcasting system. Digital cultural houses and model cultural houses are also deployed by the youth force in coordination with local Party committees and authorities in 15 blocks and hamlets.

The strong spread of the Summer Youth Volunteer Campaign has truly become a meaningful environment for union members and youths across the province to train, mature and contribute to building their homeland. Especially, in remote areas, areas with difficult economic conditions, and border areas, the youth of the whole province have focused on implementing well the activities to support the construction of cultural institutions, infrastructure, and deploy the construction of youth projects and social security activities.

At the end of the campaign, the youth of the whole province supported the construction of 20 new houses of charity, gratitude, and red scarf houses; supported 27,500 children in difficult circumstances. At the same time, 52 km (104%) of rural roads were repaired and 34 km (170%) were rebuilt; 25 community cultural houses were repaired; 20 children's playgrounds were handed over and summer activities, summer cultural teaching, and free swimming lessons were organized for ethnic minority children.

Regarding digital transformation, the youth union members have made a breakthrough in the "High-point emulation campaign to implement the Government's Project 06 in Nghe An province" of the Provincial Youth Union Standing Committee with the theme“Nghe An youth green electronic identification accounts”.More than 6,000 union members and youths from volunteer teams have conducted propaganda, mobilized, and supported people to register and activate electronic identification accounts on the VneID application, serving the settlement of administrative procedures, civil transactions, and the contents of Project 06 in localities and units.

After launching a high-level emulation campaign to focus on the grassroots level and cover the entire electronic identification account, Nghe An youth has supported the activation of tens of thousands of accounts. In addition, the youth of the whole province has supported the improvement of digital capacity for 20,300 youths and people.

Effectively deploy 1 program and 4 key campaigns

Last July, hundreds of people in Quynh Lam commune, Quynh Luu district were directly examined, consulted and given free medicine by the young doctors and nurses of Quynh Luu district's "Young Doctors" Club in a thoughtful and dedicated manner. Present early at the program, Ms. Nguyen Thi Nguyet (born in 1954) said that for many years, her blood pressure had not been stable, however, for many reasons, she had not been able to get examined. Therefore, when she heard the announcement that the District Youth Union and the "Young Doctors" Club would organize free examinations and medicine, she registered to participate. Now that she understands her condition, she will try to follow the doctor's advice to take better care of her health.

Not only in Quynh Luu, in the whole province, more than 3,500 people in difficult circumstances, policy beneficiaries, wounded soldiers, sick soldiers, and people with meritorious services to the revolution were cared for, looked after, and given free medical examinations in the past 3 months of the summer. That is one of the outstanding results of the "Pink Holiday" Volunteer Campaign of Nghe An youth.

With the motto of action "Taking expertise as volunteering, using expertise to serve the community", 85 "Pink Holiday" volunteer teams have attracted more than 3,550 union members and youths in the whole province to participate. Outstanding activities have been deployed such as training on science and technology transfer in the agricultural sector; implementing "Volunteer Saturday to support people in performing online public services"; coordinating the organization of the "Giot Hong Xu Nghe" blood donation festival, mobilizing 1,278 units of blood; organizing the "Bowl of love porridge" and "Bowl of love porridge" programs to support thousands of poor patients in the province.

The "Pink Holiday" volunteer campaign is one of the four branch campaigns of the Summer Youth Volunteer Campaign - 2023, accordingly, the remaining three branch campaigns: "Green Summer", "Red Flamboyant", "Green March" were also deployed synchronously and created a clear impression. In particular, in the "Green March" Campaign, the green of the soldier's uniform and the green of the volunteer's uniform of the youth of the whole province have accompanied and stood side by side to deploy many good models and effective methods, contributing to maintaining national defense and security, consolidating the great solidarity of the people in the border areas of the province.

Looking back at the 3-month journey of the Summer Youth Volunteer Campaign - 2023, Nghe An has successfully completed 13 key targets set out. Of which, 11 targets exceeded the plan. That clearly demonstrates the readiness of Nghe An youth in implementing meaningful projects and tasks towards the community - society, determined to join hands and contribute to a successful volunteer campaign as affirmed by Secretary of the Provincial Youth Union Le Van Luong at the Launching Ceremony of the Summer Youth Volunteer Campaign this year.

Some targets exceeded the plan set in the 2023 Summer Youth Volunteer Campaign:

- Organize for204.650Number of union members and youth participating in volunteer activities organized by the Union and Association. Achieved 205%.

- The whole province supports new construction20house of charity,House of gratitude, red scarf house, boarding house, reached 250%.

- New planting186,500trees, reaching 124%.

- Repair52km (104%), renewed34km of rural roads (170%).

- Support27.500children in difficult circumstances, reaching 110%.

- Organization of admission11.050new members (110.5%); Introduction6,130Outstanding members for the Party to consider admission (reaching 122.6%).