13 years of volunteering to pick up trash
(Baonghean) -For the past 13 years, the people of Minh Thanh hamlet in particular and the people of Minh Hop commune, Quy Hop district in general are no longer unfamiliar with the work of Mrs. Tran Thi Hoa - the volunteer who collects trash to clean up the village.
Born and raised in Hung Nguyen district, in 1976, Mrs. Tran Thi Hoa went to Quy Hop to work as a worker at Farm 3/2, until 1985 when she moved to Farm Xuan Thanh and retired in 2011. Being a hard-working person and having a habit of living cleanly, whenever she left the house, she picked up all the trash that people threw on the street.
She shared: “When I see a lot of trash in the village streets and alleys, I just pick it up to clean it up. No one forces me to do it, and many people say I’m stupid. I just think that doing so will keep the environment clean, so that my children and grandchildren can study and live cleanly and happily.”
Just like that, day after day, rain or shine, Mrs. Hoa, with a sack in her hand, still went around every corner of the village to pick up trash. When the sack was full, she took it to a far away place to dump and burn it. She not only picked up trash on the streets of her village, but whenever she went far away and saw trash thrown everywhere, she would pick it up. Passersby or strangers thought Mrs. Hoa was a scrap collector. And the people in the village, from children to the elderly, were all too familiar with the image of a skinny woman, always holding a sack in her hand to do the familiar job of picking up trash to clean the village.
Previously, Minh Thanh village was quite dirty because of littering, but thanks to Ms. Hoa, people no longer litter on the streets. 13 years of volunteering to pick up trash to clean up the village is enough time for everyone in the village to understand and share Ms. Tran Thi Hoa's work. Her actions have made many people more aware of protecting the environment.
Mr. Nguyen Thanh Son - Head of Minh Thanh hamlet, Minh Hop commune said: "In front of her good deeds, in meetings we often raise the spirit of good people for the village to follow, to start the new rural area with many criteria, including the criteria that the surrounding environment needs to be kept clean to ensure the health of the community".
With the motto "Changing awareness from small actions", in environmental sanitation work in particular and building new rural areas in general, we really need examples with small but practical and meaningful actions like Ms. Tran Thi Hoa.
Phan Giang (Quy Hop Station)
