(Baonghean.vn) - For generations, farmer women have been working hard, from housework to farming, all year round.Working hard all day to make a living, but smiles still shine through the hardships of life...
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Across the fields from the mountains, midlands, and coastal areas, women are the ones who directly face the sun, rain, wind, and storms to grow rice grains and potatoes... |
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Joining hands with husband and children to turn barren lands and hills in mountainous areas into livestock farms and fertile industrial crop areas. |
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And here and there on the Lam River from the upstream to the estuary, many mothers and sisters brave the water, regardless of the freezing winter or the scorching summer, to earn extra income to support their families. |
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In the coastal areas of Quynh and Dien, mothers and sisters are still busy in the fields and on the wharfs, raking, collecting salt and fish, their sweat soaked with the sun, wind and salty taste of the ocean. |
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Up in the Western region of Nghe An, women have always been the main labor force, taking on even the most difficult jobs... |
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The whole job of coal mining is hard, from hands and feet to face is covered with dust but smiles are always present. |
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Although farming requires "selling their faces to the ground and their backs to the sky", the women we met by chance in Hung Nguyen district are always optimistic with lively and cheerful village stories during breaks under the shade of the village banyan tree. |
Huy Thu