Nghe An people contribute food to support quarantine areas and border checkpoints

People of Nghi Long commune (Nghi Loc) contribute necessities to support quarantine areas. Photo: Thanh Phuc

Farmers' Association and Women's Union of Hung Loc Commune (Vinh City)Calling for contributions from female business members, farmers and good businessmen in the area to donate 1,000 medical masks, 25 bottles of 500ml quick hand sanitizer, 20 bottles of 180g Lifeboy hand sanitizer and 300 pairs of medical gloves to the concentrated quarantine area at Nghe An Pedagogical College. At the same time, mobilizing members to support food, food and logistics for the concentrated quarantine area to continue to contribute to the community to overcome the Covid-19 pandemic.

Do Luong District Farmers' Associationcalling on members to support the prevention and fight against Covid-19 in the following forms: Donating money, necessities... Accordingly, Hong Son commune donated 1.6 quintals of rice, 55 kg of vegetables and fruits, nearly 3 million VND in cash; Trang Son commune: 2.5 quintals of rice; Nam Son commune: 2.5 quintals of rice; Town: 1.5 million VND; 60 kg of rice; 1 box of instant noodles; Dang Son commune: 250 soup packages, 20 mosquito nets, 60 small soap packages, 5 boxes of small bottled mineral water and more than 1 million VND in cash; Yen Son commune: 20 kg of rice, 200,000 VND; Van Son commune: 30 kg of rice; Thinh Son commune: 27 kg of rice; Hoa Son commune: 30 kg of rice; Hien Son commune: 400,000 VND...

In Nam Dan district, Nam Xuan Commune Farmers' Association in collaboration with the Commune Women's Union mobilized cadres, farmer members and all people in the whole commune to support materially and spiritually the people in the quarantine area of ​​Military School of Military Region 4. After 1 day of mobilization, 21,490,000 VND, 1.3 tons of rice, 2.4 tons of vegetables and fruits, 535 chicken eggs... and some other necessities were donated.

Organizations and unions such as the Farmers' Association, Women's Association, and Youth Union, in addition to contributing money and goods, also participate in working days to serve people in quarantine areas. Photo: Thanh Phuc

As soon as we heard that nearly 200 people were quarantined at the district's Vocational College,Yen Thanh District Women's Unionmobilized women to donate money and goods to give to people currently quarantined in the district. Specifically, including: 3 quintals of rice, 5 quintals of various vegetables and fruits, 15 boxes of instant noodles, 10 bunches of bananas, 650 chicken eggs; 10 kg of pickled eggplant, 7 kg of garlic... At the same time, mobilized human resources to support quarantine areas to cook meals for people in quarantine.

On March 28-29, Nghi Loc district organized a reception for 521 citizens from Thailand and Laos to quarantine at facility 2, the provincial Ethnic Boarding School located in Nghi An commune. To accompany all levels and sectors in the work of preventing and fighting the Covid-19 epidemic,Nghi Long Commune Farmers' Association (Nghi Loc)Calling on collectives, individuals, cadres, and members of the Farmers' Association in the whole commune to join hands to contribute a small part to fight the epidemic with necessities to serve those in quarantine such as: 2 quintals of rice, 20 liters of fish sauce, hundreds of quintals of green vegetables and 2 million VND in cash...

In the mountainous district of Ky SonAlthough facing many difficulties, farmers in Huu Kiem commune contributed 350 kg of rice to support the quarantine center in Huu Kiem commune.

Thanh Phuc

Tuong Duong District Fatherland Front Committee receives support for Covid-19 prevention and control. Photo: Dinh Tuan

According to data fromVietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Tuong Duong districtprovided, by March 31, Tuong Duong district had received a total of 90,100,000 VND. Of which, agencies, units, organizations and individuals donated cash at the District Fatherland Front Committee of 56,450,000 VND; Directly donated at the quarantine area was 30,800,000 VND; In-kind donations included: masks, hand sanitizer, food, drinking water... about 2,850,000 VND.

In addition, farmers in communes such as Tam Dinh, Tam Quang, Tam Thai... will donate a large number of vegetables, tubers, and fruits produced by the farmers themselves. In addition, in recent days, dozens of local youth union members have volunteered to cook meals to provide for officials on duty at the quarantine area and citizens who are quarantined at the quarantine area in Tuong Duong district.

Dinh Tuan

The Women's Union of Quy Hop district presented gifts to the task force in Chau Ly commune. Photo: Phan Giang

With the spirit of "mutual love" and sharing, members of the Women's Union of communesChau Dinh, Van Loi, Tam Hop, Chau Thai and Quy Hop town (Quy Hop district)have joined hands to support nearly 3 quintals of rice, more than 120 kg of vegetables, tubers, fruits of all kinds, 10 boxes of instant noodles, 10 bunches of bananas... worth nearly 7 million VND, partly meeting the immediate food needs of the quarantine area at Chau Ly Boarding Secondary School. In addition, the District Women's Union has sent 8 cadres and members to serve at the kitchen of the Quy Hop District Military Command to prepare meals for citizens from the epidemic area returning for centralized quarantine and the force participating in serving at the quarantine area at Chau Ly Boarding Secondary School.

Northwest Women Entrepreneurs Association - Quy Hop branchalso supported this quarantine area with 500kg of rice, 30 boxes of instant noodles, 13 boxes of mineral water, 10 boxes of fresh milk and 5kg of dried shrimp with a total value of nearly 14.5 million VND. Thanh Cong Cooperative alone supported 15.4 million VND in cash.

Phan Giang

These past days,in Thanh Chuong districtA centralized quarantine area has been set up in Dai Dong commune and many quarantine checkpoints along the Vietnam-Laos border communes.

The Dai Dong commune quarantine area has received and quarantined 126 people to prevent the Covid-19 epidemic. The facilities and quarantine implementation here are in accordance with the instructions of the Ministry of Health. The lives of people in the quarantine area are relatively good; everyone lives normally and is in stable health.

A lot of squash is gathered to be transported to the concentration area. Photo: Huy Thu

Along the border, border posts in Ngoc Lam, Phuc Son... have coordinated with border communes to set up quarantine checkpoints in Thanh Son, Ngoc Lam, Hanh Lam, Thanh Duc... to strictly control the number of people entering and exiting border communes, especially those returning from Laos, to control and prevent the Covid-19 epidemic.

In the spirit of mutual love, to share difficulties with the forces on duty at the quarantine area, the quarantine checkpoints as well as the people living in the quarantine area, Thanh Chuong people joined hands to donate material support.

The town's Youth Union and Thanh Chuong Volunteer Club presented the donated materials to Thanh Chuong District Military Command. Photo: Huy Thu

Depending on the conditions of each family and group, people contributed green squash, pickled cucumbers, rice, cash, etc. After a day of launching, on the afternoon of March 31, the town's Youth Union and Thanh Chuong Volunteer Club collected a certain amount of materials and transferred them to Thanh Chuong District Military Command: 102 jars of pickled cucumbers, 160kg of squash, 123kg of rice, 10kg of fruit and other items.

At border quarantine checkpoints, local people also actively joined hands to donate materials to support the joint military and civilian forces on duty there.

At the Thanh Son commune quarantine checkpoint on March 31, more than 20 groups and individuals came to support through the Thanh Son commune Youth Union, the most touching of which was Mr. Nguyen Trong Son, residing in Hamlet 5, Hanh Lam commune. He is disabled, lost a leg due to a work accident and has to use crutches and limp, but he still came to the Thanh Son quarantine checkpoint to give gifts of support.

Mr. Nguyen Trong Son, a disabled resident of Hanh Lam commune, came to the Thanh Son commune quarantine checkpoint to give support gifts. Photo: Huy Thu

At the same time, another noble gesture in Thanh Xuan commune was Mr. Nguyen Canh Hoan, a farmer in Xuan Lan hamlet, who went to the Thanh Xuan Commune People's Committee office to join hands to support the Thanh Xuan commune Covid-19 pandemic prevention fund with the amount of 5,000,000 VND.

Huy Thu

In Yen Thanh district,On March 27 and 29, the Yen Thanh District Vocational Technical College Quarantine Center received 189 people for quarantine: the first batch received 86 people, the second batch received 81 people, the third batch received 23 people with on-site task force including 5 doctors, 7 police officers and 13 soldiers.

In recent days, organizations, unions, volunteer groups and people in the district, children far from home have joined hands to fight the epidemic with practical actions to support quarantine areas: The Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee mobilized the whole population to support epidemic prevention, the district youth union coordinated with the youth union of communes to distribute medical masks, the district women's union joined hands with the military command to provide logistics services...

A volunteer group of school officials on behalf of individuals sent donations to the quarantine area. Photo: Duong Hien

Duong Hien

Women's Union of Nghia Dan districtpropagated and mobilized members to support 665 kg of rice, 33 boxes of instant noodles, 27 liters of cooking oil, many vegetables and other items such as MSG, seasoning powder, 50 pairs of gloves, 5 bottles of sanitizer, 39 bars of soap... to serve logistics for concentrated quarantine areas.

Nghia Dan Women's Union supports necessities for the quarantine area at Nghia Mai Secondary School for Ethnic Minorities. Photo: Duc Anh

In addition, the Association also established 3 volunteer teams at quarantine points, coordinated logistics preparations for people in centralized quarantine, established 23 propaganda teams to distribute leaflets in the community, with more than 17,000 leaflets, 6,000 masks, 300 antibacterial soap bars distributed free of charge to people in the area.

Also in Nghia Dan, Duong Duc Trung (9 years old),Students of class 3C, Nghia Dan town Primary School went to the Nghia Dan district Fatherland Front Committee to donate 1 million VND to join hands in preventing the Covid-19 epidemic.

Student Duong Duc Trung donates money to the Fatherland Front of Nghia Dan town. Photo: Duc Anh

The above donation amount was saved by me by "raising piggy bank" from lucky money and bonuses for my academic achievements.

TH Groupalso just donated 100 cartons of fresh milk, worth more than 33 million VND, to forces serving at centralized quarantine points in Nghia Dan district.

Giving milk to the Military Command of Nghia Dan district. Photo: Duc Anh

It is known that during this period, TH Group donated 1 million glasses of TH true Milk fresh milk, worth 8 billion VND, to the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front to join hands in the fight against Covid-19.

Duc Anh

In Tan Ky district,Many organizations and individuals donated essential goods such as mineral water, food (rice, instant noodles, eggs, milk, vegetables, etc.) and hundreds of working days to work with officers and soldiers of the District Military Command to prepare meals for 150 cases of centralized quarantine at the district quarantine area.

Officials and civil servants of Tan Ky District Party Committee donated vegetables to serve the quarantine area in the district. Photo: Nguyen Huong

In response to the call of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee, recently, more than 60 agencies and enterprises in the whole district have donated cash and materials through the District Fatherland Front Committee to join hands in preventing the epidemic. As of the morning of April 1, the amount of donations has reached over 500 million VND.

Nguyen Huong

Youth Union members of Cam Son commune(Mr. Son)donated more than 140 kg of various green vegetables such as pumpkin, squash, green squash... to serve at the Thanh Son Cement Company quarantine point and transported according to regulations to officers and soldiers at the district quarantine area.

Youth Union members of Cam Son commune (Anh Son) donate vegetables to serve quarantine areas in the district. Photo: Thai Hien

Thai Hien

Ky Son District Red Cross Societyorganized gift giving to support border checkpoints on duty to prevent the epidemic and quarantine areas located in the area.

Ky Son Red Cross Society presents gifts to border guards on duty in quarantine areas. Photo: Lu Phu

At the quarantine area at Ky Son Secondary School for Ethnic Minorities, the delegation presented 20 boxes of instant noodles, 200 masks, 200 eggs and some other necessities to the staff on duty to protect, treat and care for citizens and people who are being quarantined here.

In addition, on this occasion, the district Red Cross also established delegations to give gifts to support border guards on duty to control the border area with a total gift value of 60 million VND.

For more than 2 months, the whole country has been struggling to fight the epidemic. Although it has not caused any human loss, Covid-19 has greatly affected socio-economic development and disrupted people's lives. In this difficult time, it is the awareness and responsibility of citizens that is promoted, the "love of the Fatherland" and "love of compatriots" that is multiplied and spread, which will be the strength to unite and push back the pandemic.

To "share the fire" for those on the front lines of the fight against the Covid-19 epidemic, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province has issued a call for "All people to participate in supporting and preventing the Covid-19 epidemic" to all people in the province, units, businesses, philanthropists... to support money and materials for this arduous fight. After nearly 1 week of launching, as of March 31, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province has received more than 18 billion VND from agencies, businesses, organizations, individuals, and philanthropists to support the prevention and fight against the Covid-19 epidemic. In addition, each locality and mass organizations have donated cash, necessities in kind; contributed working days to support quarantine areas such as: participating in cooking meals, cleaning quarantine areas...