PV:The founding day of the Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneers Team is approaching, can you share about the characteristics of the situation as well as the role and meaningful activities of the Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneers Team of Nghe An province for the homeland in recent times?
Mr. Tran Linh:The Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneers Team was established on May 15, 1941, in Na Ma village, Truong Ha commune, Ha Quang district, Cao Bang province. The Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneers Team is an organization of Vietnamese children founded by President Ho Chi Minh and the Communist Party of Vietnam, managed by the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union. The Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneers Team was established to gather children into a unified organization from the central to local levels under the guidance and management of the Youth Union, educating them in the revolutionary spirit and considering them a revolutionary force. The Team has always been the core organization in children's movements, an educational force inside and outside of school, and a reserve force of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union.
Nghe An currently has nearly 430,000 members, teenagers, and children, operating in 905 Youth Unions across the province. Over the years, the work of caring for and educating teenagers and children has always received attention and organization from all levels of the Youth Union and Young Pioneers in the province in order to better meet the legitimate needs of children, contributing to creating conditions for teenagers and children to be trained and develop comprehensively.
Following 82 years of construction, development and growth, the Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneers Team of Nghe An province has always actively trained and strived to take care of and educate teenagers and children. In recent times, the Provincial Young Pioneers Council has launched many campaigns and movements such as "For beloved juniors"; "Vietnamese children compete to carry out Uncle Ho's 5 teachings"; "Lighting up the dreams of Vietnamese children"... through organizing programs such as "Warm Tet for children", "Full Moon Festival", "Healthy Children's Day - Stepping up to the Union", "Praising ethnic minority youth",... organizing playgrounds and competitions to improve social practice skills for children; paying attention to and building many works and playgrounds for children.
In particular, the "Thousand Good Deeds" movement has encouraged and motivated teenagers and children to strive to study, practice and participate in social activities to become good children, good students, good team members, good children of Uncle Ho. At the same time, it has contributed to improving the quality of activities and building the Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneers' organization stronger and stronger. Last year, out of a total of 23 million good deeds of children nationwide, Nghe An children contributed more than 2 million good deeds accumulated on the "Do Good Deeds" application - an application specifically for children with many integrated features to help them compete to study well, be healthy, read books every day, protect the environment, share love and practice skills. In particular, in the 2021-2022 school year, the provincial Youth Union bases carried out 950 youth projects at the union level and 5,271 youth projects at the branch level.
PV:In the current context, educating and training children in moral qualities, culture, and a healthy lifestyle has become extremely necessary. What is the role of the Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneers in this work and how has that role been implemented in Nghe An?
Mr. Tran Linh:Not only in the current context, but in any era, I believe that educating and training children in moral, cultural and healthy lifestyle qualities is extremely necessary. Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneers Team has the role of educating children in morality, politics, ideology and lifestyle.
In Nghe An province, in recent years, the Youth Union at all levels has promoted the role of educating and training children through organizing activities to better meet their legitimate needs, helping them practice ethics, personality, life skills, communication skills, social skills, contributing to their comprehensive development in morality, intelligence, physique and aesthetics.
Outstanding in the child care and education activities of the Young Pioneers is the innovation of the content and form of the Young Pioneers' activities in a direction suitable to the psychology of the age group, contributing to meeting the needs of learning, playing, entertainment and child care. Many practical movements and activities such as: "Small Plan", "Military Semester", "Red Scarf Chickens" ... have deeply impacted each Young Pioneer, children, educating the spirit of returning to the origin, promoting the good traditions of the nation, homeland and family, helping them form good qualities, personalities and lifestyles. In addition, the Young Pioneers organize the integration of traditional education activities in the children's star activities, Young Pioneers' activities in many new ways, organize the inclusion of traditional education content in the Young Pioneers' publications in the form of books, newspapers, clips to widely distribute to the Young Pioneers ...
Implementing the motto "Learning while playing, playing while learning", the Provincial Youth Union has implemented many highly educational activities, creating useful and healthy playgrounds, encouraging the development of talents, physical strength, intelligence, dynamism and creativity of children, such as the "Youth Informatics Competition", "Creativity with Codekitten", "UPU International Letter Writing Competition", painting competition, etc. At the same time, directing the Youth Union at all levels to promote the movement of physical education and sports, organizing camps for children at the unit.
PV:What activities does the Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneers need to change, improve and develop to better meet the educational and training needs of children in today's changing society?
Mr. Tran Linh:Modern education always wants to create a team of children who have all the elements of quality, capacity, balance between learning and social skills. However, it is necessary to clarify the current state of education in Nghe An province, when the curriculum is too heavy, restricting children and limiting the promotion of participation in extracurricular activities.
Therefore, the Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneers Team needs to strengthen flexible coordination between educational units to operate a system to care for children so that they can both study well and practice diligently. In addition, it is necessary to pay attention to organizing activities and competitions related to the fields of science - technology, information technology, foreign languages, and digital transformation for children; in particular, in addition to paying attention to physical health, it is necessary to pay attention to children's mental health so that children can develop most comprehensively.
PV:Nghe An is a province with a large mountainous area, so in recent times, how has the Young Pioneer Council paid special attention to children in remote areas and ethnic minority areas?
Mr. Tran Linh:Nghe An has a total of 421 Youth Unions in 11 mountainous districts and towns of the province. In recent times, together with the Party Committee, government and political and social organizations, the Youth Union Councils at all levels in the province have had many programs and activities to accompany and share with the children here.
Many units have established volunteer youth teams to help the people, organizing meaningful activities such as: Giving gifts to poor students, families in difficult circumstances; building playgrounds for people and union members, youth; examining, consulting and distributing free medicine to children. At the same time, supporting the construction of playgrounds for children, supporting learning facilities and libraries as well as teaching equipment at disadvantaged schools.
For example, the Provincial Youth Union organized the "Knowledge Connection" Program - supporting computers to equip IT rooms for children in mountainous areas, including donating 50 computers to support IT room equipment for Nam Nhoong Primary and Secondary School, Que Phong District and Mon Son Primary School, Con Cuong District; Supporting 20 online learning devices for students in difficult circumstances, with a total value of nearly 150 million VND so that they can have better learning conditions.
At the same time, last year, the Council of the Young Pioneers coordinated with central and local units to organize the program "Spring on the border - Tet warmly welcoming the army and people"; presented 300 gifts to ethnic minority people and youth in difficult circumstances, started construction of 2 "Happy Houses", presented 1,000 warm clothes to students, presented 10 chicken farming models to people in difficult circumstances, and started construction of the project "Gymnasium and sports ground for youth and children". The total value of the projects and gifts in the program is nearly 1.5 billion VND.
PV:Faced with the increasingly innovative demands of society, what meaningful activities do the Youth Unions at all levels have to support the improvement of foreign language skills and international integration for children in the province?
Mr. Tran Linh:Foreign languages and international integration are two parallel factors that the Youth Union - Association - Young Pioneers at all levels in the province focus on implementing. Each subject will have different spaces, environments, and opportunities to express themselves. For children, the Provincial Young Pioneers Council always closely follows the direction and orientation of the Central Young Pioneers Council in implementing foreign language proficiency competitions, debate competitions such as the English Olympic, the "Vietnamese Children Reaching Out to the World" Program. In addition, the Provincial Young Pioneers Council participates in contributing ideas to the Department of Education and Training of Nghe An province in enhancing English, bringing English programs into preschool education. The Provincial Young Pioneers Council has also connected with key resources such as English centers with the desire to create an environment for foreign language training from a young age, allowing children to talk and exchange freely in foreign languages. With a long-term vision, we hope that children in Nghe An province in particular and children across the country in general will be confident, comprehensive, and reach out to be on par with international friends.
Most recently, on May 5, 2023, the Central Council of the Young Pioneers organized the Semi-final round of the "Vietnamese Children - Reaching out to the World" playground in Nghe An province, with the participation of 12 teams from the North Central provinces, of which Nghe An had 8 teams participating. This activity contributed to affirming the role of the Young Pioneers organization in improving foreign language skills and international integration for children in Nghe An province in particular and the whole country in general.
PV:On the occasion of the founding anniversary of the Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneers Team, what meaningful response activities do the bases in the province have?
Mr. Tran Linh:Towards the 82nd anniversary of the founding of the Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneers Team, the Provincial Young Pioneers Council issued Official Dispatch No. 57-CV/HDĐ dated April 28, 2023 directing the Young Pioneers Councils of districts, cities and towns to organize activities to celebrate the 82nd anniversary of the founding of the Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneers Team. In particular, directing units to promote propaganda work, organize source activities, visit red addresses, Team activities with the theme "Proud of our Team's tradition", deploy and build works and tasks "For beloved juniors", renovate the work "My class hangs Uncle Ho's picture", deploy activities to commend excellent team members, good children of Uncle Ho... Compared to previous years, this year there is a new content, which is: Directing 100% of the District-level Team Councils to build a model or solution to improve digital capacity for children associated with the 2023 working theme "Digital transformation of Union activities".
PV:Thanks for the chat!