"One shoulder, two shoulders to keep the house in order"
They are women who unfortunately lost half of their lives. But true to the qualities of Vietnamese women
Overcoming fate to raise successful children
In Yen Hoa block, Ha Huy Tap ward, Vinh city, if you ask about primary school teacher Ho Thi Kim Dinh, everyone will know. Everyone expressed their admiration for this woman who "shoulders two shoulders" as both mother and father, raising her children to be good students and become successful...
In 2002, Mr. Nguyen Thanh Vinh - Ms. Dinh's beloved life partner passed away due to a serious illness; leaving behind his virtuous wife and 3 young children. Ms. Ho Thi Kim Dinh (50 years old) could not help but shed tears: The day he passed away, the oldest child was only 16 years old. The children went to school in the morning and came back in the afternoon to help their mother with housework. The mother and her 4 children depended on the salary of an elementary school teacher. I felt sorry for my children and told myself to be more determined so that they would have a place to depend on. I felt sorry for my mother's hard work, but my children were very good, all had the will to improve and strive to study and practice.
Meeting to honor single women who raise healthy children and teach them to be good children
in Ha Huy Tap ward, Vinh city
Now the eldest daughter is Nguyen Lan Anh, who has been an excellent student throughout her high school years. At the Academy of Finance, Lan Anh is also a good student and won third prize in the "Contest to learn about Ho Chi Minh's thoughts on financial work" organized by the Ministry of Finance.
Today, Lan Anh is a young officer of Viettel Group. Her second son, Nguyen Ngoc Toan, was always an excellent student at the city and provincial levels with many first, second and third prizes. In 2009, Toan participated in the National Student Olympiad and won a first and third prize. Currently, Toan is studying in the Talented Engineer class, Faculty of Information Technology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology... Not wanting to lose to his sister or brother, the youngest son, Nguyen Phuoc Loc, was a student at Dang Thai Mai School, Phan Boi Chau Specialized School. Loc was a "fighting cock" who brought home dozens of first and second prizes for excellent students at the city, provincial and national levels.
In 2009, Loc was awarded a Certificate of Merit by the People's Committee of Nghe An province for being the top student in college and university entrance exams, and was admitted to the Party by the Party Cell of Phan Boi Chau Specialized School. With excellent academic results at the first year of Foreign Trade University, Loc was sent by the State to study abroad in New Zealand.
Not only the shining example of teacher Ho Thi Kim Dinh, but in Ha Huy Tap ward, there are also many women and single mothers who have overcome difficulties to raise healthy children and teach their children to be well-behaved, such as: Ms. Cao Thi The, who raised 3 children to study at university alone, she herself participated in mass organization activities in the block, for many consecutive years achieved the title of Good at public affairs, good at housework, and was awarded certificates of merit by the province and the Central Government; Ms. Nguyen Thi Minh, whose husband passed away, struggled to raise 5 children to adulthood, and took care of her youngest child who was disabled due to the effects of Agent Orange; Ms. Nguyen Thi Hien, a freelance worker, raised her children to be good students...
Honoring heroic mothers
As a woman, who doesn't want to have a happy home with a husband and wife, so that whether hungry or full, they can shoulder the burden and raise their children together. However, due to many different circumstances and reasons, some women have unfortunately become single women. Ms. Hoang Thi Le, block 9, Ha Huy Tap ward confided: Sacrificing for their children is the greatest motivation for single mothers to have the strength to overcome all difficulties, prejudices, and complexes, to rise up and change their lives... they always firmly believe in a bright tomorrow.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Que, Minh Son commune, Do Luong district (single mother raising 2 children, both of whom are now state officials). There are many movements and models of the province and the Provincial Women's Union that have been built to help disadvantaged women develop their economy and achieve practical results such as: the movements "Rice savings jar", "Savings tube"...
Many districts, cities and towns have established suitable and highly educational clubs such as "grandmothers", "kind daughters-in-law", "single women", "women's group without 4 no's", "shield" club, "women developing economy", family shelters for HIV/AIDS prevention"... In addition, the Women's Union at all levels of Nghe An province has mobilized nearly 2,000 billion VND, thousands of working days, and other material values to build hundreds of new shelters of love, repair hundreds of houses for poor, single and disabled women.
Continuing the glorious historical tradition of generations of women, worthy of being the women's force in Uncle Ho's homeland, many single women in Nghe An province, with their determination, love for life, have overcome poverty and social inferiority, changed their fate, changed the view of society, raised and educated their children well, and actively contributed to the innovation of their homeland, the cause of building and defending the Fatherland. They are heroic women and mothers.
Thanh Chung
