Solidarity, creativity, and arousing women's aspirations to rise up

Reporter:Dear comrade! It is known that during the 2016 - 2021 term, the Women's Union from the provincial to grassroots levels has made many innovations in content and methods of operation towards the grassroots level, towards members and women. Could you please tell us about some outstanding results?

Comrade Nguyen Thi Quynh Hoa:On the basis of closely following the functions and tasks of the Women's Union, the socio-economic development goals of the locality, taking care of the legitimate and legal rights and interests of members and women; with the motto "Where there are women, there are Women's Union activities", in the 2016 - 2021 term, Women's Unions at all levels in the province have implemented many emulation movements, campaigns and key tasks, breakthroughs. The results of the Union's activities and women's movements during the term have actively contributed to the common political tasks of the province, each sector, locality and unit.

Typically, the movement "Women actively study, work creatively, build happy families" has been concretized by the Women's Union at all levels through practical and creative movements and activities such as: "Women join hands to protect the environment, build new rural areas"; "Fighting against plastic waste"; "Tet banh chung warms the hearts of women in difficulty"; "Warm winter for poor women"; "Turning scrap into useful work"; "90 actions for women and children"; "Accompanying disadvantaged women 90+1"; "Executive Committee + 1 for poor women"; "Helping children go to school"...

The work of mobilizing and supporting women to build happy families, focusing on the campaign "Building a family of 5 no's, 3 clean's" has been widely deployed with many specific and practical contents, tasks and projects. As a result, in 05 years, 3,115 projects and tasks have been implemented; there are 56 models of clean houses and beautiful gardens; 738 5 no's and 3 clean's branches; 1,560 flower-filled roads, model roads, 5,410 households have been helped by the Association to achieve 8 criteria, contributing to the results of building new rural areas and civilized urban areas in the whole province with 280 communes and 05 district-level units meeting new rural standards.

Activities to support women in creative start-ups, economic development, and sustainable poverty reduction have seen many innovations and improvements. In 5 years, the Women's Union at all levels has coordinated with functional sectors to propagate and mobilize the establishment of 213 cooperative groups, joint groups, and 11 cooperatives managed and operated by women, attracting 1,946 start-up and business ideas to participate, of which 23 ideas won prizes in the contest organized by the Central Committee of the Vietnam Women's Union, the Provincial People's Committee, and the Provincial Women's Union. The Women's Union at all levels has helped 2,393 poor households headed by women escape poverty.

During the term, the Union at all levels also paid attention to caring for, innovating and being creative in performing the function of representing and protecting the legitimate and legal rights and interests of women; participating in Party building and government building. The focus is on promoting social supervision and criticism activities, advising and proposing policies related to the legitimate and legal rights and interests of women, children, families and gender equality... Over the past 5 years, the Union at all levels has organized 2,563 supervisions; advised and proposed 17 projects; provided comments and criticism on 2,578 documents and policies related to the legitimate and legal rights and interests of women, children, families and gender equality; organized 249 direct dialogues between the Union leaders, leaders of local Party committees and authorities with union members and women.