Mong villagers contributed materials and labor to build shelters and quarantine areas.
(Baonghean.vn) - In recent days, Mong people in Huoi Son village, Tam Hop border commune, Tuong Duong district have voluntarily contributed bamboo, palm leaves, etc. to build shelters, set up quarantine areas, and prepare plans to welcome their children from the epidemic area back to their locality.
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Tam Hop border commune is home to mainly ethnic minorities including Mong, Tay Poong, Thai. Tam Hop commune has 5 villages with 522 households and 2,485 people, including 158 poor households and 60 near-poor households. The whole commune manages 14,828km of border with Laos. Huoi Son village is a pure Mong ethnic village. People here live mainly on livestock and farming. Due to difficult economic life, many people have had to leave the village to go to the southern provinces to make a living. Photo: Dinh Tuan |
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To ensure epidemic prevention and control, all citizens returning from epidemic areas must be quarantined according to regulations. However, due to lack of infrastructure, the number of citizens expected to return to the locality is quite large. Meanwhile, the locality cannot currently requisition schools to serve as quarantine areas because students have returned to class. Faced with this reality, the Tam Hop border commune mobilized people from Huoi Son village to contribute materials and workdays to build shelters and establish a centralized quarantine area. Photo: Dinh Tuan |
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| Mr. Le Hong Thai, Secretary of the Tam Hop Commune Party Committee, said: “According to the report of the Community Covid Team, Huoi Son village, there are currently about 80 people in the village working far away, but there are about 50 citizens who wish to return to their hometown to avoid the epidemic during this period. To welcome people, the commune has proactively prepared plans to concentrate quarantine areas suitable to the actual conditions of the locality. The policy was put forward and received great support from the people, so after only 2 days, the people of Huoi Son village voluntarily contributed bamboo, reed, palm leaves... and gathered them all at the location chosen as the quarantine area”. Photo: Dinh Tuan |
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| In addition to the people of Huoi Son village, the construction of the shelter also involved officers and soldiers of Tam Hop Border Guard Station and members of the Steering Committee for Epidemic Prevention and Control of Tam Hop commune. All of them worked very urgently to complete the project soon. Photo: Dinh Tuan |
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| Mr. Xong Ba Ly, Secretary of the Party Cell of Huoi Son village, said: "As soon as the policy of building shelters and establishing quarantine areas was announced, all households in the village participated enthusiastically. Many households do not have children returning this time but still voluntarily contributed materials and labor." |
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| Taking advantage of locally available materials to build quarantine areas is a good and creative way to proactively prevent and fight the epidemic in the border commune of Tam Hop. Photo: Dinh Tuan |
