Provincial Women's Union commends 42 typical collectives and individuals in environmental protection

Leaders of the Provincial Women's Union commended typical collectives in environmental protection work. Photo: Contributor

On the morning of May 30, the Provincial Women's Union held a conference to summarize 4 years of implementing the project "Propaganda and mobilization of rural women to participate in environmental protection, contributing to the construction of new rural areas in the province in the period of 2018 - 2021"; commending 42 typical collectives and individuals in environmental protection.

Project "Propaganda and mobilization of rural women to participate in environmental protection, contributing to"New rural construction in the province in the period of 2018 - 2021" was approved by the Provincial People's Committee in Decision No. 1241/QD-UBND, dated April 6, 2018.

Based on the project, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Women's Union develops an implementation plan for the entire period and each specific year to direct all levels of the union to implement with practical, focused and key contents and activities suitable for each locality and unit.

Comrade Nguyen Thi Quynh Hoa - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, President of the Provincial Women's Union awarded Certificates of Merit to typical collectives. Photo: Contributor

Notable activities include communication, raising knowledge and awareness of environmental protection for officials, members, women and people.

In 4 years, the association at all levels has organized 1,065 training courses on environmental protection, economical and efficient use of energy; organized 395 forums, competitions, seminars, and propaganda activities on environmental protection at provincial and district levels.

Typical examples include the exchange of “Excellent propagandists on environmental protection work”; the contest “Women participating in environmental protection”, “Excellent propagandists on environmental protection work”; the launch of “Women with environmental protection”…

Comrade Le Thi Huong Giang - Vice President of the Provincial Women's Union awarded Certificates of Merit to typical collectives. Photo: Contributor

Every year, on the occasion of World Environment Day; National Week on Clean Water and Environmental Sanitation, in conjunction with communication activities for women to join hands to protect the environment, reduce plastic waste and nylon bags; all levels of the provincial Women's Union organize campaigns to collect waste and protect the environment.

Along with the above activities, the association at all levels has also built and expanded many meaningful models, projects and tasks; linked the implementation of the project with the campaign "Building a family of 5 no's, 3 clean's", building new rural areas and civilized urban areas in localities.

The most effective and widespread models are "Clean house, clean alley, clean environment"; "Turning waste into useful products"; "Turning waste into breeding stock"; "Turning waste into useful work"; "Classifying waste at source"; "Women self-managing green, clean, beautiful rural roads"; "Producing safe vegetables"; "Clean house, beautiful garden", "Model clean house, beautiful garden"; "Women self-managing the environment" group...

Comrade Hoang Thi Thanh Minh - Vice President of the Provincial Women's Union awarded certificates of merit to exemplary individuals. Photo: Contributor

The association at all levels has also actively implemented the program "One tree for each member, one tree project for each association" and as a result, more than 1 million trees have been planted, including 365,981 perennial trees. Over 5.3 billion VND has been mobilized to build 4,369 flower and tree roads led by the association at all levels with a length of 10,026 km and more than 1 million trees and flowers of all kinds.

Based on the assessment of the achieved results and lessons learned, the Provincial Women's Union continues to set one of the key tasks and the hallmark of Nghe An's union work, which is environmental protection, to continue to strengthen propaganda, improve knowledge, awareness and action among union officials at all levels, union members and women in the province regarding environmental protection, continuing to contribute to creating a positive change in this work throughout the province.

On this occasion, the Provincial Women's Union commended 21 collectives and 21 individuals with many achievements in implementing the project "Propaganda and mobilizing rural women to participate in environmental protection, contributing to the construction of new rural areas in the province in the period of 2018 - 2021" in particular and environmental protection work in general.

Model "Turning waste into useful things" in Thanh Chuong district. Photo: Contributor