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Peaceful and warm border village

Khanh Ly • January 1, 2025 16:36

Always keeping in mind that "the border is the homeland, the people of all ethnic groups are blood brothers", over the years, officers and soldiers of Nhon Mai Border Guard Station (Nghe An Border Guard) have always accompanied local Party committees and authorities in the work of hunger eradication and poverty reduction to ensure "peace for the people, peace for the area, and peace for the border".

Bridge to happiness

Since the military-civilian bridge, which is more than 15m long, 2m wide, and has a load capacity of 2 tons, and a total value of nearly 335 million VND, was handed over and put into use in mid-2024, people in Cha Lo village (Mai Son commune, Tuong Duong district) no longer have to worry about safety when wading through streams and creeks during floods.

The bridge was built by Nhon Mai Border Guard Station in collaboration with the Dien Chan Thien Tam group in Ho Chi Minh City and benefactors, bringing boundless joy to 116 households, 521 people of the Khmu ethnic group (including 108 poor households) in this remote village.

Mr. Vi Van Sen - Chief of Cha Lo village excitedly said: “Previously, villagers had to wade across the stream to go to the commune center, which was potentially dangerous, especially during the rainy season, so when the new bridge was built, the villagers were happy and very grateful to the border guards and benefactors...".

Not only that, before that, the 56m long, 3.6m wide concrete iron bridge across Khe Hy; the 3.5 ton, 3m wide people's bridge, with a total value of 500 - 650 million VND, put into use in 2023, were all "real dreams" of the people of Pha Mut and Nhon Mai villages (Nhon Mai commune).

Talking to us, Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Van Thuong - Political Commissar of Nhon Mai Border Guard Station said: The station is responsible for managing and protecting a 28.111km long border section with 9 landmarks in the area of ​​2 communes Nhon Mai and Mai Son, including 21 villages, 1,356 households/6,534 people, mainly Thai, Kho Mu, Mong ethnic groups.

In many villages and hamlets with difficult terrain, there are only temporary bridges across streams. During the rainy season, when the stream water rises, the bridges are often washed away, causing difficulties in traveling and production for the people, and the education of the children in the village is also interrupted.

"Nhon Mai Border Guard Station has connected with benefactors to support funding for the construction of a people's bridge to help people travel more conveniently.

The unit has selected experienced comrades to support the construction of a bridge over the stream, facilitating trade connections, contributing to improving the quality of life of the people, and creating momentum for socio-economic development for the locality.

Supporting students in disadvantaged areas to go to school

Located in the border area, Nhon Mai Border Guard Station always pays attention to the education of ethnic minority children through many meaningful programs and tasks such as: calling for funding to build clean water facilities and auxiliary works to serve teaching and learning at schools in difficult areas.

In the 2023-2024 school year, Nhon Mai Border Guard Station has connected with organizations and philanthropists to support funding, and the unit has supported working days to build the Huoi Man Kindergarten and Primary School and a kitchen for the Huoi Co Kindergarten (Nhon Mai commune); build a kitchen, surrounding walls, a corrugated iron roof, and a playground for the Pieng Cooc Kindergarten (Mai Son commune).

In particular, the Station has mobilized benefactors to implement the "Foster Children" Program to support lunch for 27 Mong students for 5 years with an amount of 20,000 VND/day/child along with all kitchen utensils, washing machine, electricity... for Pieng Cooc Kindergarten.

The affection of the green-uniformed soldiers of Nhon Mai Border Post for the education of ethnic minority children in the border areas is also shown through the support for 13 students under the Program "Helping children go to school" and the Project "Military officers help children go to school" along with many programs for students in disadvantaged areas such as: "Warm clothes in the border areas"; "Border moon - Full moon festival", "Border dormitory"...

In addition, the station also drilled 6 clean water wells and donated water filters to help schools overcome difficulties in clean water.

“The support and companionship of Nhon Mai Border Guard Station and benefactors are important resources to help the school improve learning and living conditions for students in disadvantaged areas, especially boarding students, encouraging them both materially and spiritually,” said teacher Nguyen Tat Thi - Principal of Mai Son Boarding Secondary School, which has 192 students, including 122 boarding students.

Housing support and livelihood models for the poor

Along with the task of firmly protecting border security and sovereignty, social security work and helping people eliminate hunger and reduce poverty are always focused on by Nhon Mai Border Guard Station, aiming at the goal of "peaceful people and warm villages".

In 2023-2024, Nhon Mai Border Guard Station will deploy 4 combined military-civilian livelihood models (cage fish farming, goat breeding) worth 200,000,000 VND, helping local households develop their economy and stabilize their lives.

The station also built the "Green Star Volunteer House" which provides free clean water, free medical examination and treatment, clothes and necessities for the poor; launched the "Green Seed Delivery - Greening the Border" nursery, and donated more than 10,000 fruit trees and timber trees to the people of Nhon Mai commune and 10 border stations along National Highway 7A.

In particular, 20 Great Solidarity houses, which the station called on Vinh city to support with construction costs, were inaugurated and handed over in December 2024 so that households could celebrate Tet in time, bringing immense happiness to many families.

On the day of handover and moving into the houses, many poor households in Mai Son and Nhon Mai communes were very emotional and expressed that they would actively work and produce to develop the economy, eliminate hunger and escape poverty.

Lieutenant Colonel Phan Thanh Hong - Head of Nhon Mai Border Guard Station said: In 2024 alone, the unit called for, mobilized, and connected philanthropists and donors across the country to invest in civil works in the area with a total amount of more than 2.1 billion VND.

Comrade Luong Van Hoa - Secretary of the Nhon Mai Commune Party Committee affirmed: The projects and works for the people that Nhon Mai Border Guard Station has been implementing not only help local Party committees and authorities reduce the burden of social security, help poor households have solid houses to live in, have a livelihood to escape poverty... but also contribute to strengthening the military-civilian relationship at the border.