Ben Cat’s Women’s Union upholds women’s role via emulation movements

Being imbrued with Uncle Ho’s teaching “Emulation is patriotism, patriots must emulate”, Ben Cat town’s Women’s Union has taken initiative in mapping out patriotic emulation movements and implementing them effectively, contributing to successfully realizing the local targets on socio-economic development.

Emulation in association with key tasks

Nguyen Thi Yen is known as an exemplary role-model in the patriotic emulation movement of Ben Cat town’s Women’s Union in the 2010-2015 period. She was born and grew up in An Dien. In 1995, she got married and faced difficulties. She and her husband also managed to open 5 chicken farms under industrial formula and failed to develop the model. But, they were not discouraged and made efforts in researching and applying sci-tech advancements into animal husbandry for higher economic efficiency.

A competition on “Women with the law” was organized by Ben Cat town’s Women’s Union to raise members’ awareness of the law

After 10 years of development, her farm has so far included 17,000 chickens, 100 buffaloes and 29 hectares of rubber trees, generating jobs for 50 local laborers. On average, it brings her family the annual revenue of nearly VND3bln.

With stable economic conditions, she has actively got involved in social charity activities such as offering help in terms of capital, nurslings…to needy members, presenting gifts to women and children with difficult circumstances. She was also present in the trips giving gifts for poor children in border areas organized by the local Women’s Union over the past time.

Nguyen Thi Anh Diep, Vice-Chairman of Ben Cat town’s Women’s Union said that the local Women’s Union has regularly improved patriotic emulation movements in both content and form, which are closely linked with the local targets on socio-economic development and movements, namely “Women with two good things”, “All people consolidate to build cultural lifestyle in residential areas”, “Paying debt of gratitude”…

Over the past time, the local Women’s Union also helped members get loans for economic development, introduced jobs for them, made law dissemination among them, gave prominence to the role of Vietnamese women’s role in the national industrialization and modernization process…

Exemplary role-models

Through emulation movements, members of Ben Cat town’s Women’s Union have expressed Vietnamese women’s fine virtues with wisdom, flexibility, creativity, kindness, responsibility…in the new era.

Many exemplary role-models have also been discovered from patriotic emulation movements launched by the local Women’s Union. Tran Thi Ty is well-known as an outstanding woman in Tan Dinh ward with the model of breeding cows and quails. The model brings her the monthly income of VND20mln. Or, Nguyen Thi Diep residing in Chanh Phu Hoa ward’s quarter 3 is very successful in breeding cows with the annual income of VND100mln…

One of patriotic emulation movements with strong development among the local Women’s Unions at all levels is “Women following Uncle Ho’s teaching in thrift practice”. Under the emulation, members of the local Women’s Union have raised 1,162 piggy banks, saving more than VND283mln. There are also 374 saving groups with nearly VND8.5bln, helping 640 women get loans for economic development.

Over the past time, the local Women’s Union also mobilized donors to build 43 houses of compassion worth more than VND1bln; further maintained a model of “Giving strength to the future”; awarded scholarships worth nearly VND110mln to 117 poor pupils…

Reported by Tam Binh-Translated by K.T