Actively giving wings to children’s dreams

“The children of today are the world of tomorrow." Being well aware of the especially important role of children in the family and society, North Tan Uyen district has made great efforts in the protection, care and education of children, creating favorable conditions for them to live, learn and play safely and healthily.

Giving wings to dreams

In addition to well implementing central and provincial support policies, North Tan Uyen district has actively mobilized more resources from socialization, combined with the local activities to well realize child protection, care and education, thereby opportunely reviewing and supporting creating conditions to give wings to children’s dreams.

Leaders of North Tan Uyen district and representatives of Binh Duong Lottery One Member Ltd.Co. award scholarships to disadvantaged students with high academic results in the 2022-2023 academic year

Being present at the recent ceremony awarding scholarships to disadvantaged students in the district, Huynh Thi Thanh Hang, a student of class 5A at Tan My primary school touchedly said that the VND 1 million scholarship will help her family cover my school fees. This is because Thanh Hang is living in a large family, but her elderly grandfather is often sick. Her grandmother is retired. Her father is a bricklayer while her mother is a worker with unstable income.

The above scholarship was also a useful source of support for Le Nguyen Phu Trong, a student of class 2D at Tan Dinh primary school. Phu Trong's situation is very pitiful when his parents' careers are not stable. He often has to sell lottery tickets to support his family. However, his academic achievement is always good. For an orphan like Truong Nguyen Khanh Bang, a student of grade 7A6 at Tan Binh secondary school, this scholarship is part of the funding to help him take care of his learning when his mother is seriously ill. It is also an encouragement to him so that he can fulfill my dream of further going to school like his friends.

Duong Van Cuong, Chairman of North Tan Uyen district’s Red Cross Society said that together with the local authorities and mass organizations, the district’s Red Cross Society actively mobilized additional 20 gifts worth VND400,000 each and 12 bicycles for disadvantaged students on the occasion of opening the 2022-2023 school year. Also on this occasion, the district received 16 gifts worth VND1 million each and 16 bicycles and gave them for the local disadvantaged students. The district has also just cooperated with provincial Red Cross Society to mobilize Binh Duong Lottery One Member Ltd.Co. to award 50 scholarships worth VND 1 million each to poor-but-excellent students.

Diverse care activities

Towards the goal of ensuring a safe and healthy environment for children to live and develop comprehensively, fully realizing children's rights, especially taking measures to prevent and reduce the risk of being abused in children, North Tan Uyen district’s Division of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs has advised the People's Committee of the district to plan activities in the 2023 Month of Action for Children.

According to Le Huynh Le, Head of North Tan Uyen district’s Department of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs, the district now has more than 14,500 children under 16 years old. Among them, there are 135 children with extremely difficult circumstances, 239 children from poor households, 74 children from near-poor households and 132 ethnic minority children. Therefore, with the theme of "Joining hands to reduce harm to children", activities during the 2023 Action Month for Children will have cooperation from all-level Party committees, authorities, departments, agencies and mass organizations and parents. These activities aim at creating equal development opportunities for children, minimizing violence, exploitation and abuse, especially sexual abuse, and child deaths, due to drowning, traffic accidents..., contributing to fully realizing children's rights as prescribed by the law.

The district’s Steering Committee for Summer Activities 2023 will organize a communication campaign to raise the awareness and sense of responsibility of competent agencies, organizations and individuals in solving problems related to children, preventing and reducing the risks of child abuse, child injury accidents, especially drowning, traffic accidents; enhance children's awareness and skills; promote families and communities to join hands in building up a safe, friendly and healthy living environment to fully realize children's rights and ensure children's comprehensive development. In addition, the district will mobilize businesses, organizations and individuals to support children who are victims of abuse and violence; visit, give gifts, scholarships and support medical examination and treatment for poor children, of ethnic minority children, those with extremely difficult circumstances, orphans...; support models on child protection, prevention of accidents and injuries in children and promotion of children's participation rights.

According to Do Ngoc Loi, Secretary of North Tan Uyen district’s Youth Union, in addition to the annual summer activities, this year, the unit will organize summer care activities for the children of young workers, promote public information and communication activities before, during and after summer activities. The unit will regularly update and post contents and images on summer activities in 2023 of Youth Union members, teenagers and children on the media, fanpage; increase the use of visual propaganda measures, propaganda toolkits in the form of infographics and monographics. Each summer activity site implements banners, billboards, information boards, registration forms for participating in summer activities associated with specific content, time and location.

Also in the summer of 2023, North Tan Uyen district’s Youth Union will coordinate with the district’s Police Agency to well realize the tasks of propagating, disseminating and educating the law, especially the Children's Law among the local students and teenagers; coordinate in organizing education models on life skills for children, namely "One day as a fire prevention and fighting fighter", "Active teen - learn good things", "Assumption trial"...; ensure security, order and safety in summer activities in 2023.

Reported by Minh Hieu-Phuong Thanh