The direction of enrichment of Yen Dai parish
(Baonghean)Yen Dai Parish (Nghi Phu) is located at the intersection of the city's major traffic routes, a meeting place for visitors from all over the world, so it is quite bustling in the growing pace of Vinh city. The parishioners are dynamic, creative, hard-working, hundreds of households have risen to become rich by their own labor...
Yen Dai Parish is located in Nghi Phu Commune - Vinh City, with 1,259 parishioners and 4,949 people, mainly concentrated in hamlets 1 to 10, accounting for 32.9% of households and 35.3% of the total population of the commune. The parish has 3 sub-parishes. Dong Kien Parish has a multi-storey catechism school. The parish and the 2 sub-parishes Dong Tan and Dong Yen have quite spacious rooms, and there are 3 charity childcare centers.
In the renovation process, with the care and attention of the Bishop's Office, the Party, the local government, and the great solidarity of the Fatherland Front at all levels, the active activities of the parish pastoral council; Yen Dai parish is increasingly developing in all aspects, the parishioners trust and enthusiastically implement the Party's policies and guidelines, striving to eliminate hunger and reduce poverty, and become rich legitimately.
Making ham has become the main occupation of Mr. Tan's family in hamlet 7, Nghi Phu.
Hamlet 7 is a Catholic hamlet, with the family of Mr. Tan and Ms. Phuc famous for making ham. To make a living for the family of 4 in the condition of no more agricultural land, the whole family is busy from morning to night making ham. On holidays, they hire 3 more workers to have enough goods to supply the market. Every day, Mr. Tan and Ms. Phuc wrap 300 - 400 hams, then go to import goods and buy raw materials. Life is getting better and better thanks to their diligence. Ms. Phuc said that making ham from a side job has become the main job to support the whole family. The family of Mr. Tuyet and Ms. Lien in Hamlet 7 also built a spacious 2-storey house from making ham. In hamlet 8, many households have also become rich from their professions, such as Mr. Phien and Ms. Hai's family who trade in scrap, Mrs. Tam and Mr. Chien's family who trade in beef, Mrs. Van who makes famous delicious ham... From a very difficult life due to the narrowing of agricultural land, Nghi Phu parishioners have developed their side job into their main job. In winter as well as summer, the whole village gets up early, some wrap ham, some boil it, some make cakes, some incubate bean sprouts, some grind flour, some butcher beef, pork... Nghi Phu market is full of cakes, meat, ham, and sausages, and the prices are the cheapest, so it attracts a lot of people in the city to buy. Many families have opened construction complexes, mechanical processing, grocery stores, lodging businesses, agricultural processing, construction machinery repair, car repair, aluminum doors, glass doors...
Although facing many difficulties in life, the family of parishioner Nguyen Van Quyen in hamlet 8 still tries to raise 2 children to go to university. With a loan from the student program, along with a bicycle shop, the family has focused on investing in one child studying at the Polytechnic University and the other at the Aviation Academy. In social activities, as Vice Chairman of the front in charge of religion in the commune, Mr. Quyen always encourages parishioners to live a "good life and good religion", to build a cultural hamlet, and to focus on business and economic development. Mr. Quyen said: Yen Dai parish now has 15 families with cars for freight transport, 4 families with cars for taxi service, 1 household with a passenger van, many households doing ornamental plants business, civil carpentry, hundreds of households opening kiosks to sell goods in markets and on the streets... 119 poor households have borrowed over 1.2 billion VND from the Policy Bank to eliminate hunger and reduce poverty, 124 households have borrowed nearly 2.2 billion VND to send their children to university...
With their hands and minds, Yen Dai parishioners are dynamic, creative, and do not mind hard work to ensure their lives and strive to eliminate hunger and reduce poverty for their families. Thanks to that, the number of poor households is decreasing. In 2007, there were 188 poor households, in 2012 there were 79 poor households, a decrease of 109 households. High-rise buildings are springing up more and more, the village roads and alleys are clean and beautiful. Everyone in the parish is promoting the tradition of helping each other, promoting the love that God has taught, fighting against social evils and striving to gradually urbanize the village with specific conventions such as: village roads must have drainage ditches, wide enough for cars to enter, 100% garbage collection...
Chau Lan
