Good jobs in Dong Ngo

(Baonghean) - Secretary of the Party Committee of Hong Thanh Commune (Yen Thanh) - Hoang Van Thiet said: "We always try our best to make sure that the people of Dong Ngo hamlet are safe and living the gospel in the hearts of the nation". From this opinion, we have found and clearly felt the consensus in building solidarity between religions and non-religious people here.

Dong Ngo hamlet (Hong Thanh commune) has 150 households with 600 people, which used to be a difficult area, people's lives mainly depended on monoculture rice farming, so the poverty rate was over 20%, the political security situation was unstable, the solidarity relationship between Catholics and non-Catholics was not yet tightened, here and there was a lack of trust in leadership and direction. The political system in Dong Ngo at that time was not complete, both lacking and weak...

The mass mobilization bloc of Hong Thanh commune and Dong Ngo hamlet exchanged work.

Implementing the mass mobilization plan, the Party Committee of Hong Thanh commune has built a resolution, established a strengthened party cell in Dong Ngo, and the mass mobilization block of the commune has advised on the plan "Improving the quality and strengthening the grassroots political system in the religious areas" combined with building a model of "Skilled mass mobilization" in the new rural construction movement. After 3 years of persistently mobilizing, building and strengthening the political system, the hamlet has a full range of association organizations and has completed the administrative apparatus, self-managed inter-family groups have been formed; the front work committee and hamlet mass mobilization group have been completed, and the apparatus has been put into effective operation.

To create a high level of consensus in concretizing the Party and State's policies and guidelines for Dong Ngo parishioners, the Party Committee and the government need to have a strategy in the process of mobilizing the people. First of all, those who do mass mobilization work must be close to the people and understand them, listen to their thoughts and aspirations. The Front Work Committee established 3 groups to patrol and protect security in the hamlets every week, thereby grasping the situation, knowing what the people still want and propose, what is not clear to promptly explain, express and make recommendations. In addition, the Hamlet Reconciliation Committee has actively handled conflicts and disagreements among the people, promoting the spirit of listening, understanding, and judging fairly, reasonably and emotionally, so some conflicts have been resolved, and the hamlets are united and close. Also thanks to the successful mediation of disputes, there are almost no more complaints and denunciations in Dong Ngo area...

Identifying job creation for the people is the premise to build a strong solidarity to serve the development goal. The Commune Party Committee and the mass mobilization team researched and connected with many prestigious labor export organizations to send dozens of children to work abroad. Along with that, lending capital to people to invest in building farms and family farms. Since then, people's lives have been improved with nearly 1/3 of households being well-off and rich, many households having an income of 150 - 200 million VND/year.

For more than 2 years now, Dong Ngo hamlet has become a leading locality in the movement of the whole people joining hands to build new rural areas in the commune. Party cell secretary Hoang Thanh Toan excitedly said: "In the movement to build new rural areas, many families have voluntarily demolished fences and solid gates, some have contributed tens of millions of dong in cash to the breakthrough project of Hong Thanh commune". Also according to Secretary Toan, among 150 households in Dong Ngo, there is no household that does not contribute labor and money to build roads and infrastructure, each person contributes on average more than 1 million dong.

However, this plan did not initially attract the attention of many Dong Ngo people. With 36 households needing to be cleared, 9 outbuildings and houses to be demolished, the people needed to donate 1,425 square meters of land to widen the road. After many meetings and persistently campaigning and persuading, but still not receiving high consensus, the Party Committee and the mass mobilization team decided to go to each house to analyze the policy and benefits of this project that requires the people's strength. At the same time, they directly discussed with the parish priest about the policy and plan for new rural construction, went to the field with the priest, then proposed solutions and discussed together to resolve them.

From the plans that created trust such as discussing the plan of self-collection and self-spending, establishing the New Rural Area Committee in the hamlet and calling on households to donate constructions and affected land to widen the road. After only 2 days, the site clearance was completed. After having cement, people volunteered to contribute hundreds of working days to complete the 570m long inter-hamlet road project. From the inter-hamlet road project in Dong Ngo, the movement of donating land to build roads took place vigorously in the commune, creating a new atmosphere and face for a rural area.

With the achievements of the Party Committee and people of Dong Ngo hamlet, the implementation of new rural areas associated with the movement "All people unite to build a cultural life in residential areas" has achieved increasingly higher results and the solidarity between religions and non-religious people is increasingly strong.

Thanh Nga