"Sharing rice and clothes" to help the poor
(Baonghean) -During the recent Lunar New Year of Quy Ty, the border guards of Nghe An, in addition to their duty of maintaining peace for the people to enjoy the Spring Festival, also shared the hardships of the people in remote areas with meaningful gifts. The Nghe An Border Guard presented over 400 gifts to poor households, families with meritorious services, and families in difficult circumstances in the border areas. The total value of the gifts was over 120 million VND, taken from the savings of the Border Guard Command and the grassroots units. In addition, it also relied on the generosity and sharing of difficulties with the people of the officers and soldiers stationed in the border areas.
Colonel Nguyen Viet Ha, Deputy Political Commissar of the Provincial Border Guard, shared: In the past time, with the spirit of "sharing food and clothes", officers and soldiers of the Provincial Border Guard have had many activities of practical significance for people in border areas. Typical programs and projects include: "Warm homes for the poor in border and island areas", "Warm Tet on the border", "Preservation and sustainable development of the Dan Lai ethnic minority in Bung and Co Phat villages, Mon Son commune, Con Cuong district", "model village" Huoi Son, "model commune" Tam Hop on national defense - security and economic development...
Officers and soldiers of Tung Huong Border Post (Nghe An Border Guard) help people harvest the winter-spring rice crop.
In 2012, the units continued to promote and consolidate models of economic, cultural and social development. Typically, they helped people with thousands of working days of production. The units also repaired and expanded 97.5 km of rural roads, 76 km of irrigation canals; repaired and renovated 59 houses, built 3 wooden and concrete bridges; repaired 40 rooms/14 schools. Helped 105 households to eliminate hunger and reduce poverty, mobilized 120 households to settle down. Visited households in difficult circumstances with 152 gifts worth 49,050,000 VND.
In particular, the provincial Border Guard has focused on helping 3 poor communes: Tam Hop (Tuong Tuong), Mon Son (Con Cuong) and Bac Ly (Ky Son) as assigned by the Provincial People's Committee. The soldiers in green uniforms have often been "together" with the people, and now they are enthusiastically taking on more tasks to help people escape poverty sustainably. In Mon Son commune, in order to help the Dan Lai ethnic minority quickly escape poverty, backwardness, and integrate into the community, the provincial Border Guard soldiers have built 2km of concrete roads in Bung and Co Phat villages; 1 dam and 392m of irrigation canals with a total cost of 6.8 billion VND. Mon Son Border Guard Station sent officers and soldiers to help people with hundreds of working days of planting: 512 kg of rice seeds/13 hectares of land, the yield increased from 3 tons to 3.5 tons/1 hectare; 320 kg of corn seeds/7 ha, productivity increased from 1.8 tons to 2.5 tons/1 ha; reclaimed 0.5 ha of rice land and converted 1.5 ha of garden land to rice. Organized a donation to support people with 100 sets of clothes; gave Mid-Autumn Festival gifts to children worth 3.8 million VND, 1,200 notebooks to students in Bung and Co Phat villages.
According to Colonel Nguyen Viet Ha, in the coming time, the provincial Border Guard force will continue to consolidate and promote effective models to help people. The focus is on implementing the construction of many charity houses and civil works. In addition, finding plant and animal varieties suitable to climate and soil conditions, with high productivity to quickly help people eliminate hunger and reduce poverty, contributing to building an increasingly strong people's border defense.
Article and photos: Le Thach
