Exciting summer volunteer activities in localities

(Baonghean.vn) - Responding to the 2016 Summer Youth Volunteer Campaign, in localities across the province, union members, youth and students are carrying out practical projects and tasks for community life.

*At Con Cuong:Student volunteer teams have coordinated with grassroots unions to organize many activities for social security such as: clearing and cleaning village roads, propagating the law; teaching life skills and swimming to children; propagating environmental sanitation, digging holes to treat waste; giving gifts to poor children; providing free medical examinations and medicine to the elderly, etc.

Student volunteers and local youth union members help policy families grow rice in Binh Chuan commune.

Along with that, Con Cuong District Youth Union also concretized it with meaningful activities such as: youth volunteers undertake the construction of infrastructure, rural landscape; dredging irrigation canals within the fields; installing lighting systems to light up rural roads; participating in forest fire prevention and fighting; preventing natural disasters and epidemics; collecting waste; setting up underwater warning signs and teaching swimming to children in the area, support activities during exam season, bowls of charity porridge...

Volunteer student team from Vinh University participated in pouring concrete on rural roads in Don Phuc commune.

Providing free porridge to poor patients being treated at the Southwest Regional General Hospital.

In July, with the highlight being the 69th anniversary of War Invalids and Martyrs Day, Con Cuong District Youth Union promoted activities such as: Caring for and supporting Vietnamese Heroic Mothers; encouraging, visiting, giving gifts, organizing medical examination and treatment, health care for war invalids, relatives of martyrs, and people with meritorious services to the revolution; environmental sanitation, repair, embellishment, creating green - clean - beautiful landscapes at cemeteries, martyrs' monuments, historical and cultural relics; directing 100% of grassroots unions to organize candle lighting ceremonies to pay tribute to heroic martyrs at martyrs' memorials in communes and at the district martyrs' cemetery.

Minh Hanh (Con Cuong Radio and Television Station)

*At Nghi Loc:On the occasion of the 69th anniversary of War Invalids and Martyrs Day (July 27, 1947 - July 27, 2016), Nghi Hung Commune Youth Union mobilized 50 union members and young people to volunteer to contribute working days to repair the house of Mrs. Nguyen Thi Yen in Hamlet 2, Nghi Hung Commune. Mrs. Yen is the wife of martyr Vuong Van Nghi, who died in 1965 at the Khe Bo battlefield - Laos. Her family is in extremely difficult circumstances, currently living alone in a dilapidated level 4 house but the family cannot afford the repair costs.

Youth Union members of Nghi Hung commune repaired a house for Ms. Nguyen Thi Yen in hamlet 2.

This is a practical work demonstrating the morality of "When drinking water, remember its source" of the young generation of Nghi Hung commune towards those who have contributed to the Revolution, contributing to educating traditions and ethics for youth union members.

Hong Vinh(Nghi Loc Radio and Television Station)

*In Quy Chau:Members of the Quy Chau District Young Doctors Club visit and provide free medicine to people in remote areas of Dien Lam Commune. Every year, the Quy Chau District Young Doctors Club organizes two volunteer trips to difficult areas in the area to directly visit and examine people.

Members of the Quy Chau Young Medicine Club examine and provide medicine to people in Dien Lam commune.

From 2011 to present, the Club has coordinated to organize 12 volunteer campaigns to give gifts and provide medical examination and treatment, medicine for poor households and policy families in many remote villages in communes such as Chau Hoan, Chau Phong, Chau Nga, Dien Lam... with a total of thousands of people examined and consulted, providing and distributing over 4,000 free prescriptions, with a value of over 200 million VND.

In Dien Lam commune alone, during this time, the delegation examined, consulted, and provided medicine to 250 people, and provided 20 types of medicine lists to treat various diseases with a total value of over 10 million VND. Also on this occasion, the Youth Volunteer Team of the Vietnam Academy of Traditional Medicine distributed many types of Western medicine lists and acupuncture needles and acupuncture thread implantation tools with a total value of 20 million VND.

These are truly meaningful actions of the medical team in the Quy Chau District Young Doctors Club, joining hands for the community's life.

Le Hoan (Quy Chau Radio and Television Station)