The 4th Congress of Delegates of Nghe An Retired Teachers Association, term 2022 - 2027 was a great success.

Attending the congress was Mr. Pho Xuan Phuong - Vice President and General Secretary of the Central Association of Retired Teachers.
On the side of Nghe An province, there were comrade Nguyen Thi Kim Chi - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Provincial Agencies; comrades of the Provincial Party Executive Committee: Bui Dinh Long - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Thai Van Thanh - Director of the Department of Education and Training; leaders of the Department of Education and Training through the periods. Attending the congress were 105 teachers who were former teachers, representing more than 20,100 members of the Association of Former Teachers in the whole province.

Delegates perform the flag-saluting ceremony. Photo: My Ha

Nghe An Retired Teachers Association was officially established in 2007. After 15 years, from 8 district-level associations, there are now 21 district-level associations and 2 affiliated associations, 420 communes, wards and towns have organized associations with 399 grassroots Retired Teachers Associations.

During the last term, the Nghe An Association of Former Teachers has promoted its role and capacity, contributing to the construction of the local political system. Associations at all levels have paid attention and actively contributed to taking care of the spiritual and material life of its members. In particular, commune-level associations have had many solutions to increase the Gratitude Fund to 6.77 billion VND; 575 members have borrowed capital from the fund with an amount of 4.78 billion VND.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Bui Dinh Long gave a speech directing the congress. Photo: My Ha

Implementing the coordination program between the Association of Former Teachers and the Education sector from the province down to the grassroots level, the association at all levels has carried out many activities to help students such as opening free tutoring classes, giving gifts to support poor students, contributing money to the Scholarship Fund, etc.

Currently, more than 3,670 members are participating in Party, government and mass organization work at the grassroots and sub-grassroots levels - this is the practical contribution of former teachers to the work of building the political system in localities.

Mr. Nguyen Xuan Phuong - Vice President and General Secretary of the Central Association of Retired Teachers presented the Emulation Flag to the Provincial Association of Retired Teachers. Photo: My Ha

From the achieved results, in the 2022 - 2027 term, the Nghe An Retired Teachers Association sets out the direction of "Solidarity, intelligence, setting an example, responsibility"; taking advantage of the leadership, direction and support of the Party Committee, the government, and the association's management agencies; strongly promoting the role and position of the association and the fine traditions of teachers; stepping up propaganda, education and building a strong association; protecting the legitimate rights and interests and contributing to taking care of the lives of members, connecting members with the association; continuing to contribute intelligence and experience to contribute to building the education career in Nghe An; being exemplary and responsible in participating in local social work and in the community to contribute to building an increasingly strong political system.

Speaking at the congress, comrade Bui Dinh Long - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee acknowledged and highly appreciated the efforts of the officials and members of the Provincial Retired Teachers' Association.

Over the years, along with the organizational development, the Nghe An Retired Teachers Association has promoted its role as a social-professional organization, with many activities contributing to protecting the legitimate rights and interests of its members; mobilizing members to promote the patriotic and revolutionary traditions, intellectual capacity and good qualities of teachers, continuing to contribute to the implementation of the education and training development strategy of the province.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Bui Dinh Long presented a banner from the Provincial People's Committee to the Provincial Association of Former Teachers. Photo: My Ha

Awarding Certificates of Merit from the Central Association of Retired Teachers to outstanding groups and individuals. Photo: My Ha

Promoting the achieved results, in the next term, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Bui Dinh Long suggested that it is necessary to bring the Association's activities into depth and quality according to the direction set out by the Congress; Associations at all levels need to discuss and carefully select the content and methods of activities to be appropriate and practical...

In addition, the Association at all levels needs to continue to pay attention and take better care of the spiritual and material lives of its members. Party committees and authorities at all levels need to thoroughly understand and fully recognize the significance and importance of the Association of Retired Teachers to regularly encourage, motivate and create favorable conditions for the Association to operate effectively.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Bui Dinh Long presented Certificates of Merit of the Provincial People's Committee to outstanding collectives and individuals. Photo: My Ha

For the Education and Training sector, it is necessary to develop a coordination program and create conditions for the Association to operate more regularly and specifically, to be able to "order" scientific research topics, social criticism on some complex issues, new issues of the sector... so that the activities of the Education and Training sector can develop more and more strongly, and successfully complete the tasks of the Association.

The Congress elected 29 delegates to the Executive Committee of the Nghe An Retired Teachers Association for the 2022-2027 term. Mr. Dau Van Dinh was re-elected as Chairman of the Provincial Retired Teachers Association.

At the congress, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee presentedAssociation of Former TeachersThe provincial People's Committee's banner with the words "5 years of solidarity, dedication, and intelligence contributing to the construction and development of education in Nghe An province (2017-2022)".

The Executive Committee of the Provincial Association of Retired Teachers, term 2022 - 2027, was introduced to the congress. Photo: My Ha

On this occasion, the Central Committee of the Association of Former Teachers also presented the Emulation Flag for Excellent Unit to the Association of Former Teachers of Nghe An province. In addition, 15 Certificates of Merit were presented to groups and individuals for their achievements in building the association.

The Provincial People's Committee and the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee also awarded Certificates of Merit to many outstanding collectives and individuals during the term./.