Great jobs in Dong Ngo
(Baonghean) - Secretary of the Party Committee of Hong Thanh Commune (Yen Thanh) - Hoang Van Thiet shared: "We always try our best so that the people of Dong Ngo hamlet can live in peace and live 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, 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 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...
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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 developed a resolution, established a strengthened Party cell to go down to Dong Ngo, the mass mobilization block of the commune has advised on the plan "Improving the quality and consolidating the grassroots political system in the religious area" combined with building a model of "Skilled mass mobilization" in the new rural construction movement. After 3 years of persistently mobilizing and building, consolidating the political system, the hamlet has a full range of association organizations and perfected the administrative apparatus, self-governing inter-family groups have been formed; the front work committee, the hamlet mass mobilization group have been consolidated, 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 teams 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, so that they can promptly explain, present 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 fair, reasonable and emotional adjudication, so some conflicts have been resolved, and the hamlets are united and close-knit. 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 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 a new rural area in the commune. Party cell secretary Hoang Thanh Toan excitedly said: "In the movement to build a new rural area, many families have voluntarily demolished fences and solid gates, some have contributed tens of millions of VND in cash to the breakthrough project of Hong Thanh commune". 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 an average of more than 1 million VND.
However, this plan did not attract the attention of many Dong Ngo people from the beginning. With 36 households needing to be cleared, 9 outbuildings and houses to be demolished, the people needed to donate 1,425 m2 of land to widen the road. After many meetings and persistently persuading and persuading, they did not receive 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 building new rural areas, went to the field with the priest, then proposed solutions and discussed and resolved them together.
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 the 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