Women who 'ignite' creativity, 'lead' movements at the grassroots level

Be proactive in thinking about work and choosing what to do.

In the movement to build new rural areas and advanced new rural areas in Nam Linh commune (Nam Dan), the Party Committee and the commune government have acknowledged and highly appreciated the active and practical participation of the women's union. To gain such recognition and assessment, the "leader" role of Nguyen Thi Dung - President of the Women's Union of Nam Linh commune has always been proactive with the Standing Committee of the Women's Union of the commune to think about and choose what to do.

In addition to propaganda and mobilizing members and women to participate in donating land, assets, contributing money and working days to build new rural areas; the Women's Union of Nam Linh commune has built many models, using branches and inter-family groups to impact and spread across the commune. Such as the model "Green - clean - beautiful branch"; "Women's branch with 5 no's, 3 cleans to build new rural areas"; the road "Clean house, beautiful garden, blooming road"; "Self-managed inter-family groups to protect the environment"... Through the models organized by the Women's Union, it has contributed to building the rural environment of Nam Linh "green - clean - beautiful".

To contribute to raising income criteria and reducing the poverty rate, the Commune Women's Union has connected, supported, and accompanied 2 member families to successfully build 2 model gardens, 2 OCOP products, and 1 greenhouse model.

In particular, from understanding the difficulties and disadvantages of members, poor and disadvantaged women in the community, over the years, Ms. Nguyen Thi Dung and grassroots association officials have organized to connect philanthropists, at the same time, arousing the compassion of local women, creating resources to support poor women and children. As a result of 5 years, 25 households headed by women have escaped poverty; connecting organizations and individuals to sponsor 4 orphans.

Chairwoman of the Women's Union of Nam Linh Commune, Nguyen Thi Dung, said: Through the movements and activities implemented by the organization, it has helped cadres, members and women see more clearly their value in social life, thereby having more motivation and confidence to dedicate and contribute more; at the same time, overcoming "administrative diseases" in union activities.

It can be said that, during the operation, each grassroots organization closely follows the political tasks of the locality and the key programs and tasks of the higher-level women's association to implement them effectively and practically.

For Ms. Hoang Thi Giang - President of the Women's Union of Nghi Hai Ward (Cua Lo Town), starting from the "Command of the heart, the mission of the union cadres" to join hands to "Leave no one behind", at the same time, contributing to affirming that the women's union is truly a "home" filled with love, sharing, and protection for the disadvantaged; she has worked with union cadres and women to carry out many social security activities.

Such as organizing the program "Banh Chung on Tet holiday"; "Spring of love - Tet reunion"; "Rice jar of love"; the model "Green house"; "Shelter of love"; "Accompanying women in the border areas"... Ms. Giang herself is both a pioneer in initiating the movement and a person who has thrown herself into it.

Particularly for the "Godmother" Program launched by the Central Committee of the Vietnam Women's Union, from 2021 to present, she has mobilized and connected 10 groups and individuals to sponsor 10 orphans in especially difficult circumstances; called for the construction of 8 houses for poor women; helped 5 women escape poverty...

Creativity in attracting members

The story of gathering and attracting members to join the organization has long been a difficult problem and has become an important target in the Resolution of the Women's Congress at all levels. During the operation, the grassroots cadres have also had many creative models and activities to attract women to the organization.

In Nghi Thai commune (Nghi Loc), Ms. Dang Thi Tho - Chairwoman of the Women's Union of the commune has been working with union officials to innovate propaganda and education work, improve knowledge for officials, union members and women. In addition to choosing practical propaganda content, including topics on life skills, skills to build a happy family, skills to accompany children through puberty, skills to grow up with children, skills to use the internet safely, skills to prevent and combat fraud and property appropriation via phone, black credit...; Nghi Thai commune Women's Union has innovated propaganda forms by organizing competitions such as "Ring the Golden Bell", "Member Forum", organizing exchange programs, competitions, picking flowers of democracy integrated...

Innovation and creativity in propaganda and education have contributed to increasing the rate of attracting members, from 75-80% in the previous term to over 97% now. In particular, the rate of gathering members in groups of female workers, elderly women, female civil servants and public employees participating is increasing. "This is an important condition for the Commune Women's Union to organize activities and movements more effectively," emphasized the President of the Nghi Thai Commune Women's Union.

In Giai Xuan commune (Tan Ky), Ms. Tran Thi Trung - President of the Commune Women's Union has researched and creatively organized many competitions, such as: "Warm fire of love", "Charming women", "Warm family", "Women in traditional costumes", "Loving family", "Listening to children talk" ... to attract members and women. Along with that, there are cultural, artistic and sports playgrounds; organizing and maintaining the activities of the "Hamlet" Club, "Da oi" Club, "Tho ethnic cuisine" Club ...

Building a team of grassroots cadres to meet mission requirements

Not only the 4 grassroots women's union chairmen mentioned above have made remarkable contributions to the union's activities and movements, but according to comrade Hoang Thanh Minh - Vice Chairman of the Provincial Women's Union, in recent years, thanks to the attention of the Party Committee and the Women's Union at all levels, the union staff, especially the grassroots union chairmen, have improved in terms of qualifications, capacity, enthusiasm, and responsibility, increasingly meeting the requirements of the tasks.

Among them, many grassroots association presidents have become creative "fire-bearers", "locomotives" leading and spreading enthusiasm, promoting the implementation of programs and tasks set forth by women's associations at all levels at the grassroots level, linked to local political tasks.

At the same time, their role has also created many activities and movements that have spread across the province. Typical examples include the movement "Turning waste into seeds/seedlings/health insurance/school supplies"; the model "Household Visiting Diary"; models and activities to attract women to the organization such as "Ring the Golden Bell", organizing online competitions; folk dance; clubs; social security models and activities...

It can be affirmed that the activities of grassroots women's organizations and the quality of activities of grassroots women's union officials play an important role in realizing the programs, goals and tasks set forth by the Resolutions of Women's Congresses at all levels.

Therefore, in addition to the efforts of the grassroots cadres themselves, the women's union at all levels has been and is continuing to take care of training and fostering grassroots women's cadres, especially grassroots association presidents, with qualifications, capacity, and practical experience, meeting the requirements of the new period; while creating a source of female cadres for the Party, government and sectors./.