The 3rd Congress of the Youth Union of Nam Dan district

(Baonghean.vn) - On the morning of July 23, Nam Dan district held the 3rd Congress of the Youth Union, term 2014-2019.

Attending and directing the meeting were comrades: Thai Thanh Quy, Provincial Party Committee member, District Party Committee Secretary; Thai Van Nong, Chairman of the District People's Committee; Nguyen Dinh Hung, Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Youth Union; comrades in the Standing Committee of the Vietnam Youth Union of Nghe An province, the Standing Committee of the Youth Union of neighboring districts, the Standing Committee of Nam Dan District Party Committee, leaders of the district's agencies, branches, unions and 102 delegates representing more than 7,200 members in the whole district.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy, Secretary of Nam Dan District Party Committee, gave a speech directing the Congress.

During the past term, the Youth Union of Nam Dan district called on sponsors to organize 4 rounds of awarding scholarships "Lighting up the dreams of Nam Dan youth" to 125 members and youths; organized 236 environmental promotion rounds, undertook 146 "Youth Roads" with nameplates; members and youths also contributed more than 50,000 working days, gave 750 gifts, worth nearly 40 million VND to families in especially difficult circumstances; Nam Dan youth always actively participated in flood prevention, called for house building, provided food, supported money and supplies with nearly 4 billion VND to people during annual storms and floods.

The club organized 5 medical examinations and provided medicine to more than 2,500 poor households and policy families. In addition, the district youth chaired and coordinated 6 voluntary blood donation sessions, with 950 youth members participating in donating more than 600 units of blood. Implementing the campaign "Youth establish a career, get rich legitimately", 128 training sessions and transfer of science and technology were organized with nearly 4,000 youth participating. By the end of the term, the whole district had 163 economic models owned by youth in production, business, and farm development with an annual income of 50 million VND or more. Over the past five years, the entire association has raised more than 620 million VND and organized 6 trips to visit and give gifts to soldiers at Border Guard Station 539, sent more than 100 million VND to the province in the program "Contributing stones to build Truong Sa", and supported 100 million VND for the fisheries control force, coast guard, etc.

In the 2014-2019 term, with the slogan: "Promoting the strength of youth, solidarity, creativity to build a rich and civilized homeland of Nam Dan", Nam Dan youth are determined to achieve 11 basic targets. In particular, the goal by the end of the term is to recruit 1,500 new members, coordinate to build 1-2 charity houses for former Youth Volunteers, policy families with difficult circumstances, mobilize to build the "Border and Island Love" Fund to 500 million VND, increase the trust source of the Social Policy Bank to 25 billion VND, continue to build the Youth Start-up Fund by the end of 2019 to reach 400 million VND, strive to build an excellent district Youth Union for 5 consecutive years, 20% of the Union bases achieve provincial level excellence, 50% achieve district level excellence.

With the spirit of solidarity and high consensus, the Congress unanimously elected 29 members to the new term Committee of the Vietnam Youth Union of the district. Mr. Phan Van Canh was elected to hold the position of Chairman of the Youth Union of Nam Dan district (term 2014 - 2019). The Congress also elected 6 official delegates to attend the higher-level Congress.

News and photos:Thanh Binh

(Hoang Tru 1 - Kim Lien - Nam Dan)