Meaningful messages from the contest 'Women with Population and Development work'
(Baonghean.vn) - This is a meaningful activity towards the International Day of the Girl Child (October 11) and the 93rd anniversary of the founding of the Vietnam Women's Union (October 20).
On the morning of October 9, in Dong Van commune (Thanh Chuong district), the Department of Population - Family Planning - Provincial Women's Union coordinated with the Medical Center - Thanh Chuong District Women's Union to organize the contest "Women with Population and Development work" in 2023.

With the goal of building a family with “few children, prosperity, equality, progress, happiness and sustainable development”, in recent years, the Women's Union at all levels and the Population - Health sector have closely coordinated to organize many meaningful activities. Thereby, to propagate, educate, raise awareness and responsibility of couples of childbearing age to implement a small family scale to take good care and raise children, comply with policies and laws on marriage, family and gender equality, build a happy, sustainable family and preserve and promote good cultural values of the family.
The results achieved have contributed to the successful implementation of the goals and targets of Resolution No. 21-NQ/TW of the 12th Party Central Committee on population work in the new situation.

Building on the achievements,Contest "Women with Population and Development"This is an annual activity that has been implemented by the Population sector for many years, aiming to create a playground and opportunity for healthy, useful and practical exchange for women regarding population work in the current situation.
The 2023 competition is held with the theme "Connecting love - Full of happiness" with the participation of 3 teams from Dong Van, Thanh Thinh, and Thanh Hoa communes of Thanh Chuong district.
At the contest, the teams went through 3 parts including: Greeting contest with the message: "Connecting love"; Knowledge contest with the message: "Understanding and sharing" and Talent - Creativity contest with the message: "Full of happiness".

Through the contests, many meaningful messages were shared about population work - family planning, the role of women's unions and related departments and branches in propaganda and mobilization to implement population policies.
In addition, with the knowledge and talent competition, the teams also demonstrated their creativity in integrating propaganda content into skits, fashion shows, presentations, and speeches revolving around topics such as: Consequences of gender imbalance at birth; prenatal and newborn screening; early marriage, etc. to improve population quality.

The success of the contest contributes to raising the understanding of women members and people about the policies and laws of the Party and State on population work; the role, responsibility and contribution of women in all aspects of life; knowledge and skills in reproductive health care in each period and each age.

The organizers also hope that after this contest, population officials and women's union members at all levels will continue to be creative and innovative in their work of propagating and mobilizing the implementation of population policies in the new situation. At the same time, the members participating in the contest will be the core members who have the power to spread in the community and in population work, family, and emulation movements of the Association and the local population and health sector./.