Youth Union of Nghe An Provincial Social Security Agency: Volunteering for social security

Giving charity meals to seriously ill patients at Nghe An Oncology Hospital. Photo: Phan Lien

Volunteer shockfor community life

During the past term, with the spirit of volunteering for the community, the Youth Union members and youth of the Branch have fully and enthusiastically participated in all activities of returning to the source, social activities organized by the higher-level Youth Union such as: Organizing incense offering and flower offering to heroic martyrs; visiting and giving gifts to families of martyrs and veterans; organizing visits and giving gifts to families in difficult circumstances on holidays and Tet... Peak volunteer activities such as "Spring Volunteer", "Youth Month", "Summer Youth Volunteer Campaign", "Warm Border Tet", "Red Drops of Nghe An" launched by the Central Youth Union and the Provincial Youth Union were also enthusiastically supported by the Youth Union members and youth of the Branch. Warm winter coats, thousands of notebooks and school bags were given by the Youth Union members to people in the border areas of the Fatherland with the wish to bring warm springs to the people; Hundreds of blood units donated by the enthusiastic hearts of union members and young people working in social security have contributed to lighting up the faith and hope of those in need of support.

During the past term, with the spirit of volunteering for the community, the Youth Union members and youths of the Branch fully and enthusiastically participated in all activities related to the source and social activities.

In addition to the common activities of the province's youth, the Youth Union members of the Social Insurance Branch of Nghe An province have built a volunteer plan for the community with many meaningful activities. The Youth Union members have sponsored Lo Manh Cuong, a 2A student at Huu Kiem Primary School, Ky Son District, until he completes his high school program. The Youth Union has contacted the school and family where he studies and lives to agree on the content of assistance; regularly keeps in touch, coordinates to grasp the situation of the living, studying and playing conditions of the child; visits, encourages, gives books, notebooks, clothes, school bags to the child on the occasion of the new school year; supports 1 scholarship worth 200,000 VND/month to help the child and his family overcome difficulties and improve living and studying conditions.

In particular, in the 2019-2020 school year, the Youth Union also organized a program to propagate health insurance policies for students, and presented health insurance cards to students in difficult circumstances at Nghi Phu Secondary School (Vinh City). The source of funds for card giving was taken from the overtime funds of all union members during the peak month of propagating social insurance and health insurance policies.

Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Social Insurance Youth Union, Comrade Vo Thi Thu Hien shared: “The volunteer activities for the community of the Provincial Social Insurance Youth Union in the past time have been implemented with the consensus and high determination of all members in the Youth Union. The timely encouragement, support and guidance of the Party Committee and the Youth Union at higher levels have become the driving force for the Youth Union members of the Provincial Social Insurance Youth Union to promote their pioneering spirit and enhance their responsibility in all fields”.

Always strive and be creative for social security mission

As cadres and union members performing social security tasks in the province, union members of the Provincial Social Insurance Union always clearly identify their responsibilities for the common tasks of the whole industry.

With the increasing workload and increasing pressure, in addition to regularly working at night and overtime to ensure timely and correct settlement of social insurance, health insurance and unemployment insurance policies for policy participants and beneficiaries; the Social Insurance Youth Union of Nghe An province has launched the movement "Voluntary Saturday to resolve administrative procedures for the people"; mobilized union members and young volunteers to take the lead in reviewing and supplementing health insurance card information for subjects, upgrading software and converting data of the industry's professional software. Union members have made proposals and initiatives to do a good job of advising and directing to help leaders issue work programs; actively creating and advising on innovation in content and methods of activities; applying information technology and social networks in the process of performing tasks. Many initiatives, topics and creative products of union members have been applied in practice, contributing significantly to the implementation of the agency's tasks. Among them, the software "Checking the health insurance payment line on mobile devices" by member Pham Van Toan - Information Technology Department was recognized by Vietnam Social Security as an industry-level initiative, won the Third Prize in the "Science and Technology Innovation for Nghe An Youth 2016" contest and the topic "Supporting businesses to register for social insurance for the first time along with businesses preparing documents for business registration or business establishment decisions" by member Trinh Thi Huong - Revenue Management Department was recognized by Vietnam Social Security as an industry-level scientific initiative.

Directly disseminating and consulting on social insurance and health insurance policies for small traders in markets in the city: Photo: Phan Lien

During the 2017 - 2019 term, the Provincial Social Insurance Youth Union has truly promoted its pioneering role in information and communication work to bring the Party and State's policies to the masses. With the spirit of "Where there is a need, there is youth, where there is difficulty, there is youth", every July (since 2018) - the peak month for propagating social insurance and health insurance policies under the direction of the Provincial People's Committee, the Provincial Social Insurance Youth Union members and youth in green volunteer shirts have organized groups to directly propagate to people at markets in the city, at the Employment Service Center, at pension and social insurance benefit payment points. In particular, during the peak month of 2019, the Provincial Social Insurance Youth Union members together with the Provincial and City Post Offices carried out mobile propaganda on main roads with loudspeakers and propaganda slogans; Mobile propaganda teams went to every alley, knocked on every door, and checked every street corner to bring social insurance and health insurance policies to the people in the harsh fire of the Central region.

The Youth Union members have also effectively used the Website and social networks in propaganda, information and ideological orientation for youth; maintained the registration of writing news and articles for the Nghe An Provincial Social Insurance Website and the Facebook page of the Provincial Social Insurance Youth Union, contributing to timely information and ideological orientation for union members and youth and contributing to orienting public opinion.

With the efforts in the 2017 - 2019 term, 100% of union members completed their professional tasks well, many union members were awarded Certificates of Merit by the Provincial Agencies' Union for their outstanding achievements in the annual Union and Youth Movement activities; 4 union members were honored as advanced models in studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style in the 2016 - 2017 period (out of a total of 11 honored comrades); The Provincial Social Insurance Union was awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Provincial Union for its outstanding achievements in the volunteer movement in 2018...

Comrade Le Truong Giang - Party Secretary, Director of the Provincial Social Insurance highly appreciated the contributions of the Provincial Social Insurance Youth Union in the past term. He affirmed: “The Provincial Social Insurance Youth Union has become a strong arm of the Provincial Social Insurance Party Committee, making an important contribution to the completion of the targets of the whole industry. In the coming term, each individual Youth Union member needs to make efforts to unite to build the Provincial Social Insurance Youth Union into an outstanding and typical Youth Union in the Youth Union of the Agencies of Nghe An province; linking Youth Union activities with professional work; promoting the pioneering and proactive spirit in ensuring social security, contributing to the successful implementation of the political tasks of the industry”.

To achieve the goals and tasks for the 2020 - 2022 term, the action slogan of the Provincial Social Insurance Youth Union is: "Social Insurance Youth Union members of Nghe An province are friendly, responsible, proactive, creative, and united; promoting the 25-year tradition of building and growing, contributing to ensuring social security, building a modern and professional social insurance industry, for the satisfaction of people and businesses".