Not resigned to poverty

(Baonghean) - Coming to the mountainous area of ​​Yen Thanh district, we were impressed with war invalid Nguyen Van Thuan, in hamlet 14B, My Thanh commune. He is not only good at economics but also many times volunteered to donate land to pave the way for new rural construction...

In 1978, Mr. Nguyen Van Thuan returned to his hometown after being demobilized with many injuries. Not wanting to become a burden to his family, the 4/4 disabled veteran tried to find every way to make a living. After many struggles, with the mechanical skills he learned in the army, Mr. Thuan opened a mechanical repair shop to serve the people in the area. At first, he only repaired household appliances, such as batteries, pot stickers, pot stickers... After a while, his skills became more solid and he gained more experience, he also took on repairing electric bicycles, motorbikes and replacing auto parts...

Mr. Thuan works at his family's mechanical repair shop.

He himself researched and invented plows, animal feed processing machines, vegetable cutters, grass cutters, banana cutters, reducing time and costs for his hometown people. Currently, the vegetable, root, fruit and bone grinders he produced have been trusted by kindergartens in the district and exported to some communes in Do Luong and Dien Chau districts. Not only enriching himself, Mr. Thuan also trained and created jobs for 6 workers in the commune with salaries from 2 to 4 million VND/person/month. He opened his own mechanical workshop for his three sons to do business. Mr. Nguyen Van Tu (Mr. Thuan's son) who lives separately in Hamlet 8, My Thanh Commune said: "Thanks to my father's vocational training, I have now opened my own workshop, my business is quite good, I have also created jobs for 2 workers with an income of nearly 3 million VND/person/month".

Not only is he good at economics, Mr. Thuan is also a typical example in the new rural construction movement of My Thanh commune. In 2011, when the commune had a policy of clearing land to open inter-commune and inter-village roads to build new rural areas, he was one of the first to donate land to the commune. In 2012, he volunteered to donate more land, remove the fence, and dismantle his own shop to make a road. Talking about donating land, Mr. Thuan shared: "When the commune had a policy of calling on people to donate land, I thought that as a soldier of Uncle Ho, I had to be an exemplary leader, so I donated 250 square meters of land, dismantled the booth, and the wall surrounding the house. If the commune continues to call, my family will continue to donate land to open roads."

Enriching himself and his family, providing vocational training for children in the commune and willing to donate land to pave the way for new rural construction, war invalid Nguyen Van Thuan learned from Uncle Ho through concrete actions, contributing to the poverty reduction movement at the grassroots level.

Quynh Trang (Yen Thanh Station)