2022 Summer Youth Volunteer Campaign in Nghe An: A Meaningful Start

Nghe An Newspaper had a conversation with Mr. Le Van Luong - Member of the Central Executive Committee of the Youth Union, Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Youth Union.

PV:Sir, what is special about this year's Summer Youth Volunteer Campaign compared to previous years?

Mr. Le Van Luong:This year, when the Covid-19 pandemic has been almost controlled, the new normal has been established, requiring many volunteer activities to be deployed synchronously to meet new requirements from reality. One of those requirements is post-Covid-19 public health care.

Provincial Youth Union Secretary Le Van Luong requested all levels of the Youth Union, Association and youth in the province to respond to the programs and plans set out in the 2022 Summer Youth Volunteer Campaign. Photo: Thanh Quynh

Specifically, right from the beginning of the campaign, the Provincial Youth Union Standing Committee directed the Youth Union branches to deploy the journey "Young doctors follow Uncle Ho's teachings, volunteer for community health - Taking care of people's health after Covid-19". With the motto "Where there are young doctors, there are volunteer activities for community health", in the first phase, the whole province had more than 1,750 people examined, consulted, and directly cared for their health after Covid-19. For the online form, more than 2,000 people received health advice via phone and Zoom, Google Meet applications...

1,750 people were directly examined, consulted, and provided with post-Covid-19 health care in the first phase of this year's Summer Youth Volunteer Campaign. Photo: Thanh Quynh

At the same time, the Youth CampaignvolunteerThe summer is even more meaningful when the youth of the whole province are striving to compete to achieve achievements to welcome the Congress of the Youth Union at all levels towards the 18th Congress of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union of Nghe An province, the 12th National Youth Union Congress, term 2022 - 2027.

This requires all levels of the Youth Union in the province to concentrate their efforts to successfully complete the goals set for the term and outline new plans for the next term. All of this creates an exciting and enthusiastic atmosphere in all movement activities of the Youth Union members and youth in the whole province.

PV:Nghe An Youth enters the 2022 summer campaign, which is also the time when middle school students enter the Summer semester.10th grade entrance exam. This is a very important exam, so what volunteer activities did the union members and youth of the whole province have during the exam?

Mr. Le Van Luong:Entering the 10th grade entrance exam for the 2022-2023 school year, Nghe An youth have established 121 volunteer teams with a total of more than 3,000 young volunteers to "Support the exam season" with students. In order for the exam season support activities to take place effectively, since May, the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Youth Union has planned to organize the "Support the exam season" program in 2022.

A beautiful image of Nghe An Youth Union members supporting candidates in this year's 10th grade entrance exam. Photo: Nghe An Provincial Youth Union

Accordingly, young volunteers will participate in guiding students before and during the entrance exam to help them better understand the necessary paperwork procedures. At the same time, they will coordinate with the authorities to ensure traffic safety at the exam sites, and build a team of free motorbike taxis to support candidates and their families in case of need.

In addition, the grassroots Youth Union chapters have directed volunteer teams to promptly check candidates with special circumstances such as disabilities, orphans, and those in difficult circumstances who have no relatives to pick them up on exam days to organize activities to distribute free meals and support resting places for candidates and their families during the exam.

The youth of the remote district of Ky Son presented more than 600 free meals to candidates and their families in difficult circumstances at the recent 10th grade entrance exam. Photo: Ky Son District Youth Union

Units in the midland and mountainous areas such as Thanh Chuong, Ky Son, Quy Hop... have directed the Youth Volunteer Teams to cook and serve thousands of free meals and drinks to candidates in difficult circumstances and living far away. In particular, some candidates at the Dang Thuc Hua High School (Thanh Chuong) exam site who forgot to bring their exam papers were supported by the "Zero-dong Green Shirt Taxi" team of Thanh Chuong district's youth union members, who took them home and returned to the exam site on time.

This is a team established by the youth of Thanh Chuong district in June 2021 to support people to travel for offline treatment during the peak time when the locality was affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Entering the 10th grade entrance exam for the 2022-2023 school year, this team continues to have many activities to effectively support candidates.

The "Zero-dong Green Shirt Taxi" team of Thanh Chuong district's youth union members supports candidates in difficult circumstances or those who have forgotten their documents before the exam. Photo: Thanh Chuong District Youth Union

PV:What about the new rural construction movement, sir?

Mr. Le Van Luong:This is also an important activity that the Youth Union at all levels has paid great attention to and implemented many key action programs towards building advanced new rural areas and model new rural areas. Specifically, the Provincial Youth Union Standing Committee has directed the Youth Union bases to proactively advise and work with Party committees and local authorities to coordinate in mobilizing and connecting resources, focusing on undertaking youth projects to build essential infrastructure in the area such as: repairing and building new rural roads, lighting up rural roads, building playgrounds for children and youth at cultural houses, and building hygienic toilets for households.

Youths across the province enthusiastically participated in activities responding to the Summer Youth Volunteer Campaign right after the launching ceremony. Photo: Provided by the Youth Union

At the same time, promote programs and activities to support youth in economic development associated with agricultural restructuring, economic restructuring, income improvement for rural youth, and promote the implementation of the One Commune One Product (OCOP) Program. To achieve this goal, Youth Union organizations have organized career counseling for nearly 2,000 youth, organized youth knowledge teams to transfer science and technology to more than 670 rural people and youth, and organized start-up training for 2,870 youth union members. At the same time, support loans for 4 start-up projects; organize vocational training activities.

In the first phase of this year's Summer Volunteer Campaign, the youth union members of the whole province repaired 32km and built 12km of new rural roads. Photo: Con Cuong District Youth Union

To improve the environmental landscape and move towards building advanced new rural areas and model new rural areas, the Youth Union members and youth have dredged 25km of canals; repaired 32km and built 12km of new rural roads; built 5 new "bright - green - clean - beautiful - safe - civilized" model streets and 21 "youth flag roads", lighting up 2km of rural roads. In addition, 19 playgrounds for children and youth have been built in difficult areas and more than 22,500 trees have been planted.

At the provincial level, two projects have been implemented to build the Doan Ket bridge in village 3B, Quynh Loc commune, Hoang Mai town and the project to restore and embellish the monument "Uncle Ho with the youth and Youth with Uncle Ho" at Nguyen Tat Thanh park, Vinh city.

Representatives of the Provincial Party Committee's Mass Mobilization Commission and Nghe An Provincial Youth Union visited and presented gifts to prestigious village elders in Huoi Son village, Tam Hop commune, Tuong Duong district. Photo: Thanh Quynh

PV:Phase 1 of the Summer Youth Volunteer Campaign has passed with many positive results. So what will be the key tasks in phases 2 and 3 of the campaign?

Mr. Le Van Luong:In stage 2 and stage 3, there are many key programs, notably the Red Flamboyant Campaign (from June 1 to August 31, 2022), the "Supporting the Exam Season" program for high school graduation taking place in 2 days from July 7 to 8, 2022 and the "Green Summer" volunteer campaign (will last until August 31, 2022). In addition, the Youth Union bases will continue to build and complete digital transformation projects in geographical indications, introducing historical and cultural relics and scenic spots in the province.

Youth Union and Association bases across the province organize many free swimming classes for children. Photo: Do ​​Luong District Youth Union

During the summer, the Provincial Youth Union Standing Committee also focused on directing Youth Union and Young Pioneer organizations at all levels to strengthen propaganda work to change awareness about drowning prevention, targeting not only students but also their parents. Summer classes to teach children to swim and install and repair hundreds of drowning warning signs were also deployed synchronously. At the same time, mobilizing all resources to effectively deploy models to prevent drowning accidents and injuries for children synchronously throughout the province.

With the set goals, the Summer Youth Volunteer Campaign will continue to be implemented effectively, promising to create a positive environment for union members and youths across the province to practice and mature in the spirit of "wherever needed, there are youth, wherever difficult, there are youth".

PV:Thank you!

Thanh Quynh