A bright spot in union activities at a school

Take care of everythingrepresenting union members, workers and students

Thanh Chuong 3 High School is located in Cat Ngan area, west of Thanh Chuong district with enrollment area of ​​more than 10 communes. In 2009, according to the resettlement project of Ban Ve Hydropower Plant, the enrollment area of ​​the school had more students from Thanh Son commune - a commune from La village, Ve village (Thai ethnic group), Xop Pot village - Kim Da (Khmu ethnic group) of Tuong Duong district transferred to study. Of the 10 communes in the enrollment area of ​​the school, 3 are located in the border area, including Hanh Lam, Thanh Duc, Thanh Son. This is an area with a large area and complex terrain, especially difficult socio-economic conditions, students from poor and near-poor households account for a fairly high proportion. In order to take good care of the teaching staff, the union workers have advised on organizing many meaningful activities.

Thanh Chuong 3 High School campus. Photo: DVCC

On the occasion of October 20 every year, the Executive CommitteeGrassroots unionProactively advise the Party Committee, coordinate with the School Board of Directors to develop and implement a plan to organize medical examinations for staff, teachers, and workers, to check their health, screen for some diseases for timely treatment to protect the health of union members and students in the unit. Through medical examination and screening, some union members and workers were diagnosed with diseases and were enthusiastically advised on treatment by the hospital's medical team. This helps union members and workers feel more secure in their teaching work, investing in increasingly higher quality expertise.

For students, right from the beginning of the school year, the union coordinated with the District Health Center to conduct health check-ups for all students; Coordinated with the Department of Population, Thanh Chuong District Health Center, Nghe An Provincial Youth Union to examine and provide free reproductive health consultation for adolescents and young people. Applying this program has saved costs and provided widespread examination and consultation, avoiding the lack of understanding about health and gender. In addition, the Union proactively guided a group of students to build a website on sex education and the product won third prize at the Nghe An province's youth and children's creativity contest in 2022.

With many meaningful activities, Thanh Chuong 3 High School's Trade Union is regularly commended and recognized by the higher-level Trade Union. Photo: DVCC

Every year, the union organizes volleyball, badminton, and table tennis tournaments between union groups to improve health and create a vibrant and joyful competitive atmosphere in schools, and organizes cultural and sports exchanges with other units to build relationships, improve health, and support each other when needed. Activities such as gratitude, organizing Mid-Autumn Festival for children, giving gifts to encourage children with good academic performance, meeting "in-laws", and exchanging with other units are also highlights in the movement of union activities in recent years...

In addition, the school's Union always closely follows the masses to grasp each person's situation in order to promptly encourage and help, together with the school to encourage union members materially and spiritually such as: Organizing visits and encouraging union members in difficult circumstances, sick, union members' families having funerals or happy events, always being present promptly, helping wholeheartedly, leaving a deep impression in the hearts of everyone, in the hearts of teachers and staff families.

Collective kitchen - Happy project

With a large area, steep hills and mountains, and very long distances (the farthest point is approximately 20km), the way to school for teachers and students, especially teachers and students in border communes, is very difficult and arduous. Some students have to rent a house to study, while the majority have to stay at school at noon to continue studying in the afternoon. This reality leads to many students having to pack rice, sit in the corner of the classroom or under a tree to have a makeshift lunch while waiting for the afternoon class. Students with better conditions go to restaurants with expensive meals but do not ensure food safety and hygiene. This situation also leads to the consequence that many students take advantage of their lunch break to hang around restaurants to play games, easily falling into social evils or affecting their health in epidemic conditions, negatively affecting their health, intelligence, living habits, and even their personality.

Five old houses were renovated into a spacious communal kitchen for staff, teachers, workers and students of the school. Photo: Tran Van

Worried about that problem, the school's Union consulted with the school.kitchen constructionto serve teachers and students at the school, ensuring the health and safety of students and teachers while demonstrating a sense of responsibility, love for students and concern for colleagues. After only a short time, more than 300 million VND was mobilized to repaint and build 5 old houses into a clean and beautiful dining room, which can serve 100 students and teachers at the same time.

Setting up a kitchen is difficult, but operating it is even more difficult. In order to have meals that ensure nutritional quality, in addition to growing and providing vegetables on site, the school union has sought many practical solutions, focusing on mobilizing social resources, calling on businesses, parents, philanthropists and alumni to support rice, food, gas, etc.

Youth Union takes care of vegetable garden to serve the collective kitchen. Photo: DVCC

Thanks to the good socialization work, seeing the role of the kitchen for students and the transparency in the use of socialized capital, parents and benefactors also supported, purchased and contributed many valuable items to the school such as: Industrial water purifier worth 22 million, industrial stove worth 30 million, cupboards, water heaters, electric fans... In the operation of the kitchen, many parents directly supported fresh food every day. Even Mr. Le Van Lam - the school security guard also spent a small part of his salary to donate rice cookers and electric fans.

The kitchen facilities are gifts from individuals and organizations that have joined hands to build; The rice source for meals is brought by the hearts of "love is sharing"; The source of clean vegetables is from the planting and fertilization of the Youth Union; Meals are organized by the coordination of the Trade Union and the Youth Union, creating cozy, friendly, comfortable and happy meals between teachers and students, students and students. The construction, maintenance of the kitchen, management and organization of meals at school have spread throughout the school a sense of responsibility, love, science and discipline. From that kitchen, there has been a change in all aspects of awareness, learning efficiency, discipline, improving physical and mental health, arousing compassion, spreading a beautiful lifestyle, creating a friendly atmosphere in the spirit of "every day at school is a happy day", the school has truly become a home for both teachers and students. This is the basis for creating consensus in all other activities, creating many subsequent successes in mobilizing funding for learning equipment for students, programs to support poor students to overcome difficulties in studying, and support families in difficult circumstances.

Food sources for the kitchen are regularly contributed by units, organizations and individuals. Photo: DVCC

Talking about his experience in union activities, Mr. Nguyen Nhat Duc - ChairmanUnionThanh Chuong 3 High School shared: “The school Party Committee, especially the school principal, has paid great attention to, supported and trusted the trade union organization, creating all conditions for the trade union to operate. The trade union cadres are dynamic and creative, always taking the lead in all activities of the school, demonstrating exemplary behavior in all activities, always worrying about every difficulty and finding a separate path for the unit. In particular, there must be unity and public consensus so that all union members can discuss democratically, participate in building agency regulations, internal spending regulations, emulation and reward regulations and regulations on issues related to the life and work of union members. Thereby, cadres, teachers and workers will clearly see the rights and obligations of each member in the unit in order to build a developed and stable unit, while helping labor relations and the pedagogical environment in the unit become more friendly and open”.

The kitchen is a meaningful project that brings joy to both teachers and students of Thanh Chuong 3 High School. Photo: DVCC

Assessing the activities of the School Union, comrade Dang Van Hai - ChairmanEducation Industry Unionaffirms: “Thanh Chuong 3 High School is a mountainous unit with many material difficulties, but the school's union is always innovative, creative, and promotes its role and responsibility to create many good models and meaningful activities. The school's union has truly become a bridge between the union and the profession, between teachers and students, between teachers and workers, between parents and the school, between benefactors and difficult circumstances, between hearts and minds, creating a warm relationship between teachers and students, between people and colleagues”.