The secret of skillful mass mobilization of the "2 in 1" female secretary

Carrying both shoulders

Born in 1990, Vu Thi Huyen has held many positions, starting from the Youth Union movement at the grassroots level. Before being the Secretary of the Youth Union of Nghia Thuan commune and Secretary of the Party Cell of Hamlet 3, Nghia Thuan commune (Thai Hoa town), Huyen was the Secretary of the Youth Union of the hamlet, then Head of the Front Work Committee of Hamlet 5B, Nghia Thuan commune. Later, Hamlet 5B and Hamlet 3 merged into Hamlet 3, with 407 households, the hamlet with the largest population in Nghia Thuan commune.

Secretary of the Youth Union of Nghia Thuan commune Vu Thi Huyen (far right) guides union members in preparing activities for the great solidarity day.

A petite and agile girl, in her role as Head of the Front Work Committee, Vu Thi Huyen advised the Party Committee to direct departments, branches and organizations to adhere to the Party Committee's Resolution and the instructions of the higher-level Front, mobilizing people to participate in many agricultural extension training courses such as disseminating livestock and veterinary techniques, fruit tree planting techniques, learning scientific and technical advances to apply to intensive farming. From there, promoting the shift in crop and livestock structure to help the household economic movement develop. Organizations have stood up to make loan applications for members and union members to borrow from the Policy Bank to invest in livestock and poultry farming. And many households have earned high profits, raising their family economic income to a new level, such as Mr. Nguyen Van Dung's household and Mr. Cao Van Hiep's household.

From those practical results, people are more enthusiastic about the contents that the Party cell has implemented, many households have started to build economic development models such as raising goats, raising cows, carpentry, aluminum and glass, small-scale trading, or exporting labor...

The people's lives gradually became better. As a result, the cultural, artistic and educational promotion movements were also enthusiastically responded to by the people. Therefore, when the Party Committee and the Youth Union mobilized people to contribute money and property to build new rural roads, in a short time the hamlet completed 450m of concrete road with a total cost of nearly 70 million VND. In addition, the canal was dredged, a 400m long internal road was built, a stage was built, and the Cultural House was renovated with a total cost of nearly 100 million VND.

All of these were contributed and supported by the people. In addition to material things, the people also supported the hamlet with 29 stone benches and 2 sets of loudspeakers to serve the hamlet's cultural activities. Many inner-hamlet roads were also planted with flowers and swept clean by union members, youth, and people...

The executive committee of Hamlet 3, Nghia Thuan, met with the people. Photo: Hoai Thu

Before Vu Thi Huyen took on the role of Secretary of the Commune Youth Union, she was the Secretary of the Youth Union of Hamlet 3. According to the introduction of the Party Secretary of the Commune Phan Van Chung, the Youth Union of Hamlet 3 at that time was always "the leading flag in the Youth Union work of Nghia Thuan Commune, one of the strong and exemplary Youth Unions for many years, and was recognized by the higher-level Youth Union as the Youth Union that has completed its tasks excellently for 5 consecutive years". Growing up from the enthusiastic and passionate contributions of the Youth Union, the girl Vu Thi Huyen is now the Secretary of the Party Cell of Hamlet 3 of Nghia Thuan Commune. However, as the head of Hamlet 3 Nguyen Phong Luu said, "people rarely distinguish between Ms. Huyen as the Secretary of the Youth Union or the Secretary of the Party Cell. They only look at the movement activities and actual results to trust and support. One shouldering two shoulders but supporting each other to do better and better".

Fostering solidarity between religions

After the merger, Hamlet 3 of Nghia Thuan commune was jokingly called "super hamlet" by the people because it had more than 400 households, of which about 50% were Catholic households, including Hamlet Chief Nguyen Phong Luu. Mr. Luu has been the hamlet chief for more than 20 years. For Party cell secretary Vu Thi Huyen, he considers her both a colleague and a family member because "uncle and niece always have high unity in work, because every effort and every work carried out leads to the goal of solidarity and happiness", Mr. Nguyen Phong Luu happily said.

Vu Thi Huyen and representatives of organizations visited and presented gifts to martyr mother Pham Thi Vinh, who is over 90 years old this year. Photo: Hoai Thu

He took us to visit the church grounds not far from the house of Hamlet Chief Nguyen Phong Luu. At this time, the villagers had just harvested the crop, so the large yard of Tan Cat Parish Church was covered with golden rice. Mr. Luu further introduced that this space, in addition to being a place for religious activities, is also a place for many activities that attract a large number of people to gather. In addition, Hamlet 3 has another place that also connects the people, which is the hamlet cultural house, which has long been a meeting place, a place for sports matches, art performances, and activities of organizations in the spirit of solidarity and sharing.

Vu Thi Huyen said that, with the special nature of the area, in order to unite the people, whether Catholic or non-Catholic, it requires cadres, whether they are Party Committee members or hamlet executive committee members, to work from the heart and based on democracy and solidarity. Therefore, in addition to the orientation of propagating the implementation of the Party's guidelines, policies, and laws of the State, there is also the goal of mobilizing parishioners to live a good life, uphold their religion - respect God, and love the country. And the "secret" to doing this, according to Vu Thi Huyen, is enthusiasm, working impartially, objectively, and putting the interests of the collective and the people above all. Therefore, all movements implemented, whether from the Party Committee or the Youth Union, all originate from this goal. Thanks to that, this place has successfully built the model of "Tan Cat Parish, peaceful, free of crime and social evils" for many years, helping households in the Catholic area to have peace of mind to live a good life, uphold their religion. This model has mobilized many groups of both religious and non-religious people to participate, assigning each other to patrol, guard, denounce crimes and promptly support and detect individuals who show signs of violating security and order.

"2 in 1" female secretary Vu Thi Huyen participates in local union activities. Photo: Hoai Thu

The "companions" in village and hamlet affairs of female Party cell secretary Vu Thi Huyen, in addition to the experienced hamlet chief Nguyen Phong Luu, are also former cadres, retired party members, and cadres of the People's Committee of Nghia Thuan commune, especially the Party cell secretary Phan Van Chung, who also participates in activities at Hamlet 3 Party cell. Vu Thi Huyen happily said that this is also one of the "secrets" that helps a young party member like her boldly take on the duties of the head of the Party committee and cell. Youth is full of dynamism and enthusiasm, but experience in operating and leading the Party cell really needs the help and support of the seniors so that Huyen can be more confident in carrying out the assigned responsibilities.

Along with that support, Secretary of the Commune Party Committee Phan Van Chung said that for many years, the Youth Union movement of Nghia Thuan commune has always been at the top of the town with many activities close to reality, highly effective in attracting union members and young people. Those were the campaigns responding to the call of the Commune Fatherland Front Committee to support the Covid-19 Prevention and Control Fund, Hamlet 3 alone donated nearly 26 million VND, the most in the commune. In addition, Hamlet 3 is also a locality that strictly implements regulations on social distancing, whether it is salary or teaching, people always remind each other to try together for the safety of the whole community. The parishioners were very supportive, not going to church but performing the Eucharistic visitation ritual through the electronic information portal of Vinh Diocese, or through phone applications such as Zalo, Facebook, etc. The people here also supported money and effort to complete the road section from area 1 to Nghia Loc commune, 70m long, 7m wide, worth 70 million VND; along with the support of the Commune People's Committee, 30 tons of cement helped build an additional volleyball court in residential area No. 1 and many other items with a total amount of nearly 250 million VND.

A corner of Nghia Thuan commune. Photo: Hoai Thu

Although she is the only individual from Thai Hoa town to be honored by the Provincial Party Committee's Mass Mobilization Committee as a typical example of skillful mass mobilization at the provincial level in 2020, Vu Thi Huyen is always modest: "At work, if I see any problems or need help, I immediately ask the relevant people. I cannot complete the task well alone. My success is also thanks to the collective support, the understanding and support of my family." Perhaps thanks to that, the "2 in 1" female secretary in the Northwestern town has done well in her role as both the leader of the Youth Union and the head of the Party Committee, gradually affirming her own capacity and enthusiasm in building local movements.