People who celebrate Tet late

February 8, 2008 18:12

Taken in front of Hieu market gate

(NAO) With only 500 thousand VND/month, after deducting insurance, the workers of the Thai Hoa Young Town Environmental Sanitation Company diligently collect garbage every day from every alley and village road. Although it is a company, there are only less than a dozen workers recruited on the spot. Normal days are already quite hard for them, especially collecting all kinds of garbage from Hieu market, Nga Tu market... In the days before Tet, when the amount of garbage from the markets skyrockets, garbage from families "contributed all year...!" is thrown out onto the street to clean up their houses for the New Year's Eve party, to welcome the New Year...! "A jumble of garbage", all kinds, keep piling up, at garbage collection points in residential areas as if overloaded.

On the afternoon of the 30th of Tet, when every family has started to prepare the New Year's Eve tray... is the time when the environmental workers are busiest, the volume is unusually large, time is urgent, people rush to shop and then return to their warm homes in the cheerful laughter filled with incense smoke around the New Year's Eve tray. As for them, the hard-working bees are still diligently, diligently, urgently moving each bag of garbage onto the specialized vehicle..."Clean and beautiful streets during Tet is our joy, brother...". The people who celebrate Tet late told me when I pressed the camera to record their images in front of Hieu market gate on the afternoon of the 30th of Tet....


News and photos: Le Ba Lieu

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