Student volunteers open roads and teach swimming to locals
(Baonghean.vn) - In recent days, implementing the 2017 summer volunteer campaign, the volunteer student team of the Faculty of History, Vinh University has carried out many meaningful and practical activities for the people of Xa Luong commune (Tuong Duong).
Xa Luong commune is home to Kinh, Thai, Kho Mu, and H'Mong ethnic groups. The economic and living conditions of the people, especially the villages deep in the mountains, are still difficult.
On this occasion, the youth volunteer team of the Faculty of History, Vinh University, including 16 students, returned to the commune to do summer volunteer work. The program lasted for 20 days (July 3 - July 23) to help local people in 8 villages in the commune with traffic, irrigation, garbage collection, propaganda on drowning prevention, and organizing summer activities for children...
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| Exciting volunteer atmosphere in Xa Luong. |
After nearly 10 days of “eating, living and working together” with the locals, with the strong support of local youth union members, the volunteer team has carried out a number of practical activities. The team repaired a sunken road, built a spillway in Khe Ngau village, opened nearly 100m of steep hill road in Hop Thanh village, Na Be village, cleared and repaired 5km of road from the center to Na Be village, creating conditions for people and vehicles to travel more easily.
The team also collected garbage at the foot of Ang village bridge, cleaned up the village to contribute to cleaning the environment; dredged more than 700m of canals along Khe Ngau village road, cleared the flow to timely irrigate crops in the villages.
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| Organize garbage collection at the foot of Ang bridge. |
A new feature of the team’s activities is to organize propaganda on drowning prevention for the people, both in theory and practice. This is a key content of the team, receiving enthusiastic response from the youth and local people.
In the coming days, the team will continue the activities of "joining hands to build new countryside" by building irrigation, volleyball courts, organizing summer activities for children, helping families with preferential policies...
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| Drowning prevention propaganda in the hall. |
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| Organizing summer activities for children |
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| Help people open the road. |
The activities of the volunteer student team of the Faculty of History, Vinh University in Xa Luong (Tuong Duong) not only have practical significance for local people but also leave a good impression about the vanguard role of the "blue shirt volunteer" army in the West./.
Huy Thu
