Coming to Xuan Lam commune (Nam Dan), the most impressive thing for us is the green - clean - beautiful countryside scene; the gardens in each house are arranged neatly and beautifully.
Mrs. Truong Thi Yen's garden in hamlet 7 is designed in blocks and specialized beds, including fruit trees such as jackfruit, grapefruit, orange, guava; beds of vegetables, chrysanthemums, lettuce, kohlrabi, cabbage, green and straight... Mrs. Yen said that before, more than 700 m2 of this garden land was just a mixed garden, now her family has re-planned and invested systematically, not only beautifying the house, beautifying the village, but also having high economic value. Fruit trees planted only 1-2 years have not yet brought income, but green vegetables are seasonal, every day there are vegetables to sell at the market, earning tens or hundreds of thousands of dong a day, she is very happy.
In addition to Ms. Yen's house, the movement to renovate and beautify gardens has been responded to by many households in Hamlet 7 and the whole Xuan Lam Commune. Ms. Tran Thi Huyen - President of the Women's Union of Xuan Lam Commune said that, on the basis of implementing the model of "Family of 5 no, 3 clean", "Women's Union of 5 no, 3 clean", the model of "Residential cluster adjacent to clean houses, beautiful gardens, flower-filled alleys", the Women's Union of the commune and each union focused on propagating, mobilizing, guiding, and supporting women to implement many contents, including building clean houses, beautiful gardens; building flower roads, green trees, flag roads; supporting poor women's families with knowledge, funds, and breeds to develop the economy, thereby contributing to reducing 11 poor households within 3 years (2021-2023).
In recent times, Nam Dan district has focused on building itself into a model new rural district in the direction of cultural development associated with tourism, so the activities of women's associations at all levels in the district have also closely followed this key political task to implement.
Ms. Pham Thi Hai - President of the Women's Union of Nam Dan district said: The image of women, instead of being busy with social work, farming, cooking, family, and children, now actively participates in folk activities, folk dance, volleyball, women's soccer, yoga, etc.; contributing to improving women's physical and mental health and promoting cultural and sports movements in residential areas. The Union's activities and the role of women actively participate through registering to carry out many specific projects and tasks in building new rural areas. In 2023 alone, in addition to mobilizing cadres and members to contribute money and effort to build 52 flag roads, flower roads, rows of trees thanking Uncle Ho, and building propaganda and agitation clusters; the Union at all levels also actively mobilized and supported 42 women's families to escape poverty and near-poverty; helping 165 households meet the criteria of "Family of 5 no, 3 clean".
The activities of the Women's Union and the Women's Movement in Nghia Dan District also closely follow the local political tasks for implementation. The focus is on linking propaganda, raising awareness and actions of Union officials and women's union members on new rural construction associated with building "Family of 5 no, 3 clean", "Family of 5 yes, 3 clean"; implementing projects and tasks such as supporting housing construction for poor members, building flag roads, flower roads, green tree roads, supporting members to build hygienic toilets; maintaining "Green Sunday"... Women's Unions at all levels in Nghia Dan District also actively support women to improve their economic power, such as supporting loans from banks and funds, supporting vocational training, loans, supporting breeding animals, providing scientific and technical guidance. Particularly in the field of poverty reduction, in 2023, 51 households escaped poverty and near-poverty.
For the Women's Union of Quynh Luu district, the core activity is to support knowledge, exploit loan sources for members, women to start businesses, develop the economy, associated with activities to support poor women, single women, orphans, contributing to the good implementation of social security work in the area. Up to now, the Union at all levels has connected organizations and individuals to sponsor 271 orphans in the area, with a total amount of nearly 1.3 billion VND.
The Women's Union and Women's Organization of Quynh Luu district also actively participate in building new rural areas with many diverse activities, such as mobilizing members and women to donate land to open roads, expand the cultural house campus; undertake planting shade trees, green fences, flag roads; build "Family of 5 no 3 clean", "Women's Union of 5 no 3 clean", "Safe village for women and children", "Women's group self-managing the environment", "Green house", "Exchanging trash for school supplies", "Exchanging trash for green trees"; maintain the movements "Clean Saturday, Green Sunday", "Mother's environment - Children's happiness", "Turning scrap into love"...
The Women's Union is a political and social organization in the political system. Therefore, in addition to caring for and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of its members and women, in recent times, the Women's Union at all levels in the province has continued to innovate its methods and content of activities, being dynamic, creative, proactive, flexible, focusing on the grassroots, making the work of the Union and the women's movement practical and effective, contributing to promoting the implementation of the political goals and tasks of the province and each locality.
The most prominent and central point is that the Women's Union at all levels focuses on supporting members to improve their knowledge, capacity, and promote their internal strength so that women can take care of themselves and solve related problems through communication activities, training, thematic talks, club activities, and branches. In addition to supporting poor, single, disabled, and disadvantaged women to confidently rise up, the Union at all levels focuses on improving the capacity of union officials, supporting female business owners, household business owners, cooperative managers, and cooperative groups; contributing to building leading, pioneering, spreading, and promoting factors for women's movements and work. Through the support activities of the Union, it has contributed to promoting economic development and poverty reduction in each locality and the whole province. The number of women's households escaping poverty and near-poverty in 2023 is 1,132 households.
Along with caring for and supporting "Building Nghe An women of the new era: Having knowledge, morality, health and aspirations to rise up, being responsible for themselves, their families and the Fatherland", Women's Unions at all levels in the province actively participate in building the Party, the political system, and effectively solving social issues related to women and children, such as gender equality, preventing and combating human trafficking, child marriage, and incestuous marriage. In 2023, the Provincial Women's Union and Women's Unions at all levels organized the monitoring of 8 legal policies related to preventing and combating child abuse; domestic violence; social subsidies for poor households, policy households, health insurance for the poor and children; meals for boarding children at kindergartens, etc.
The Associations at all levels organized to review nearly 750 documents related to socio-economic development policies and guidelines; including the Draft Land Law, the Draft Resolution of the Provincial People's Council on regulations on titles and regimes for non-professional activists in communes, blocks, hamlets, villages and hamlets. In 2023, the Associations at all levels actively created sources and introduced 1,084 Party members to the Party.
To continue to enhance the role and position of the Women's Union and women in social life, Chairwoman of the Provincial Women's Union Nguyen Thi Quynh Hoa said that, in addition to the innovation and creativity efforts of the Women's Union itself, it is necessary for all levels and sectors to pay attention to creating policy mechanisms for the Women's Union to organize propaganda, mobilization and support activities for women, thereby promoting the role of women in implementing local political goals and tasks.