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20-year summer youth volunteer campaign

Update: 09-10-2019 | 15:54:54

After 20 years of implementing summer volunteer activities, youths in Binh Duong province were proud of their contributions to the summer youth volunteer campaign of the whole country. Provincial Youth Union during the past 20 years constantly improved its activities and created pervasive values, effective ways to serve the lives of the local people.

In the 1997-2002 period, provincial Youth Unions at all levels carried out some considerable works, including those of building 10 classrooms for children in remote areas, constructing 113 houses of compassion for officials of Youth Union and associations with difficult circumstances, giving financial support for upgrading Hung Kings’Temple…

Provincial Youth Unions at all levels continued marking their obvious change in organizing summer youth volunteer activities during the 2002-2005 period. Accordingly, they focused on on-site volunteer special subjects, sector based volunteer ones with expanded scale. They actively got involved in upgrading 180 km of rural roads, building 413 houses of compassion worth approximately VND5billion for needy youths…

Realizing that Binh Duong is a locality with high economic growth, absorbing a large number of immigrant laborers, so provincial Youth Unions at all levels have continued improving ways to organize volunteer campaigns among youths since 2005. Accordingly, they put focus on organizing activities in favor of immigrant youths. One of highlighted campaigns done by provincial Youth Unions at all levels during the period was “Entreprenuers, young officials, civil servants getting involved in volunteer activities for the community”. The campaign is now called “Pink vacation”.

Under the “Pink vacation” campaign, provincial Youth Unions at all levels in collaboration with provincial Support Center for Young Workers over the past time set up 22 youth model lodging facilities, built 50 “dream” rooms, offered more than 30,000 gifts, 10,000 support packages to young workers together with scholarships to needy young workers’offspring with total cost of nearly VND20billion. With such results, the campaign contributed to strengthening a task of gathering, uniting young workers, helping them feel secure to live and work in Binh Duong, consider Binh Duong as their second homeland and directly take part in volunteer activities.

Especially, along with taking care of young and immigrant workers, provincial Youth Unions at all levels during the 2010-2019 period attached special importance to on-site volunteer activities, absorbing the participation of people from all strata. There was a strong growth in terms of volunteer groups, clubs such as the Young Entreprenuers’Club, the Young Physicians’Club….

Upholding the spirit of “The people are like water and the army is like fish”, during the period, provincial Youth Unions at all levels carried out a model of “three-shirt color alliance”. Under the model, the local Youth Union members, armed forces jointly took part in civilized urban and new-style rural construction. The model was actively responded by armed forces, creating the linkage image between army and people in activities for sake of the community.

Since 2005, provincial Youth Union Standing Committee has conducted the Youth Unions of Dau Tieng Rubber One-Member Co.Ltd. and Phuoc Hoa Rubber Joint Stock Company to organize volunteer activiites in Laos’Champasak province and Cambodia’s Kampong Thom province, thereby helping the local youths enhance their skills for international intergation and contributing to strengthening the solidarity, friendship between localities of countries in the region.

Possibly seeing, the annually summer youth volunteer campaign was concretized by many campaigns, namely “green volunteer campaign”, “red flamboyand campaign”, “pink vacation”…together with volunteer activities in civilized urban and new-style rural construction, administrative reform and for the sentiment to islands, border areas…

Under the campaign of “youths volunteering for islands and border areas”, since 2007, the local youths have come to Phu Quy island district in Binh Thuan province, “green” isle in Binh Dinh province, Cat Ba island in Hai Phong province, Thu Chu island in Kien Giang and provinces Lao Cai, Binh Phuoc, Dak Lak…and carried out many youth works, including building rural roads, donating houses of compassion, awarding scholarships, computers… to the local needy people, with total value of nearly VND10billion.

Possibly speaking, the annual summer youth volunteer campaign has vigoriously upheld the role of youths in each development period of the country and the province. Volunteer hallmarks are always nice memories, previous baggage for the local youths to enter the life towards the community and for the community…

Reported by Kim Tuyen-Translated by K.T

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