Nghe An Red Cross Society: Improving the effectiveness of disaster response

(Baonghean) - In the 2010 - 2015 term, with great efforts of the agency under the leadership of the Party cell, Nghe An Provincial Red Cross Society has excellently completed its political and professional tasks.

The Association has done well in charity and humanitarian work such as: health care, blood donation, distribution of wheelchairs, rocking chairs, and prosthetic limbs for disadvantaged disabled people in the districts; opening dozens of training classes on first aid for traffic accidents and voluntary blood donation; coordinating medical examinations and providing free medicine to tens of thousands of poor people, disabled people, and Agent Orange victims; eye surgery for 1,625 people; successfully organizing the Spring Festival, Red Journey, and Blood Donor Honor Day in Vinh City, thereby mobilizing and receiving 52,232 units of blood for the hospital.

In addition to the above activities, the Association has effectively implemented the “Cow Bank” project for poor districts. With 767 initial breeding cows, the Association has developed 345 more, and to date, 142 households have benefited from this project; at the same time, it continues to maintain and develop cooperative projects to care for and protect mangrove forests, and lend capital to poor households, etc.

During the past term, the Association mobilized and called for over 37 billion VND to build 65 houses of gratitude, Red Cross houses and 50 storm-proof houses; donated 123,746 Tet gifts for the poor and victims of Agent Orange; provided emergency relief to over 20,000 beneficiaries; maintained and established 11 new charity kitchens throughout the province, provided free porridge for poor patients; widely deployed the campaign, supported beneficiaries to strive to integrate into the community...

Vinh University students respond to the Spring Pink Festival. Photo: N.Hai

To have resources for the above activities, on the one hand, the Association mobilized and advised the province to organize the program "Nghe An's Gratitude" to call for support from philanthropists, businesses, agencies, organizations, and individuals nationwide to support the poor and disadvantaged areas; through this program, units and individuals inside and outside the province donated over 21 billion VND.

In addition, the Association coordinates with the province's mass media agencies to implement the program "humanitarian bridge", "humanitarian bridge"... to introduce and share humanitarian addresses in need of help so that benefactors can approach and help them improve their lives. From this bridge, in less than 5 years, the addresses have received more than 3 billion VND in support.

The Provincial Red Cross Society gives gifts to poor and disabled households in Dien Ngoc commune (Dien Chau). Photo: Nguyen Hai

The Nghe An Provincial Red Cross Society Party Cell is a grassroots party organization under the Provincial Agencies Party Committee. The Party Cell has 12 party members out of a total of 17 cadres, civil servants and public employees. In order to improve the effectiveness of professional work, the Party Cell regularly focuses on leading administrative reforms, improving working methods and procedures; proposing specific measures in work implementation, caring for the lives of party members, cadres, civil servants and employees; ensuring good security and order in agencies and units...

The Party cell has done a particularly good job in political and ideological work for party members; trained and improved professional qualifications, fostered political theory for party members and focused on party development. During its term, the Party cell sent 1 cadre to study for a master's degree in China under the Government's Project 165 and 1 cadre to study at university; sent 5 cadres and party members to attend state management training courses, 5 cadres to study politics; admitted 5 new party members... For 3 consecutive years (2011 - 2014), the Party cell was classified as clean and strong; in 2014, the Association was awarded the Third Class Labor Medal by the President and many individuals were commended by the Government and the Provincial People's Committee for their outstanding achievements...

Entering the new term 2015 - 2020, the Provincial Red Cross Party Cell has set out the general direction of continuing to innovate the leadership method, fighting strength of the Party Cell, improving the quality of Party members; strengthening political and ideological education for cadres and Party members, promoting democracy, internal solidarity, focusing on leading the agency to excellently complete political tasks, promoting administrative reform and implementing democratic regulations; improving the quality of consulting, directing, and organizing the implementation of goals and targets set by resolutions of Party Congresses at all levels. Building a clean and strong Party Cell, associated with building a strong agency.

To realize the above tasks, the Party Cell will focus on leading the development and implementation, completing assigned tasks well; strengthening the direction of resource mobilization, social work - prevention, response to disasters, propaganda - training; voluntary blood donation - primary health care. On the one hand, promoting the responsibility of the Party Cell Secretary, unit leaders through the action theme "Improving the leadership, direction, management and operation capacity of unit heads, creating positive changes in the entire organization system of the Association"; on the other hand, continuing administrative reform, innovating working methods and styles; strengthening administrative discipline and order; uniting to build the agency and making the results of the Association's tasks increasingly stronger; deserves to be an active advisory body for the province in mobilizing social resources, proactively preventing and effectively responding to disasters and natural disasters, minimizing the negative impacts caused by climate change on people's lives.

Nguyen Phung Vinh

(Secretary of the Provincial Red Cross Association Party Cell)