'Volunteering for beloved juniors' towards ethnic minority areas

Currently, Nam Nhoong Primary and Secondary School has 431 students of the Khmu and Thai ethnic groups. Photo: Thanh Quynh

The peak day program "Volunteering for beloved juniors" was organized by the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Youth Union at Nam Nhoong Primary and Secondary School (Que Phong) with activities including: "Connecting knowledge" - supporting 20 sets of computers to equip IT rooms for students in mountainous areas; presenting the project "Reading space for children" worth 20 million VND; giving 20 gifts to students in difficult circumstances; organizing a program to popularize IT, connecting knowledge for students.

At the program, Secretary of the Provincial Youth Union Le Van Luong said that, grasping the message of "3T" including: Pioneering, mutual assistance and adaptation, the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Youth Union directed the rapid transformation of forms of organizing volunteer activities. In particular, focusing on solving the legitimate needs of union members and youth and in accordance with the situation of preventing and fighting the Covid-19 epidemic.

Currently, Nam Nhoong commune has a poverty and near-poor household rate of approximately 88%, with people's livelihoods mainly relying on agricultural cultivation. Photo: Thanh Quynh

To prepare computer systems to equip IT rooms for students at mountainous schools in general and Nam Nhoong Primary and Secondary School in particular, over the past several months, the Provincial Youth Union has launched the program "Connecting Knowledge" and established "Pink Holiday" volunteer teams in the Provincial Agencies Youth Union and the Provincial Enterprises Youth Union.

Volunteer teams mobilized used computers from agencies, units, and households of officials and civil servants. Then, they were handed over to the Green Summer volunteer student team of Vinh University Student Association to check, repair, and install operating systems and basic office software.

The computer system is connected to the network to provide maximum support for students to use and access supplementary knowledge for the learning process. Photo: Thanh Quynh

In addition to installing computers, the Green Summer volunteer student team of Vinh University of Technical Education Student Association organized a popular IT class for students for 1 week from the peak day.

In the near future, many other highland schools will implement this program, contributing to popularizing IT for children and teenagers in remote and disadvantaged areas.

Provincial Youth Union supports project establishmentReading space for children" with thousands of books to improve reading skills for students here. Photo: Thanh Quynh

This time, in order to improve reading culture, help students in mountainous areas have more access to books, and have more interesting reading space, the Provincial Youth Union has supported the establishment of a project "Reading space for children" on the basis of renovating the library of Nam Nhoong Primary and Secondary School.

This is part of the Green Library model that has been effectively implemented by the Nghe An Provincial Youth Union Council, establishing many library and reading points on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneers Team.