Joyful workers at weekends playgrounds

 To implement the direction of Steering Committee of the Project "Office for consulting and supporting youth development in Binh Duong province" phase 3 (2022-2025), the Project Steering Committee and the Provincial Youth Activity Center have coordinated with Youth Unions of communes, wards, and youth workers' associations in Thu Dau Mot City and Thuan An City to organize weekend playgrounds for young workers and workers’ children with many useful activities.

Young workers celebrate collective birthdays at the weekend playground program

 Weekend playgrounds are organized directly at boarding houses with a large concentration of young workers so that they and their children can easily participate in the activities. In Thuan An City, the Steering Committee of the Project "Office for consulting and supporting youth development in Binh Duong province", the Provincial Youth Activity Center in coordination with Binh Hoa Ward Youth Union (Thuan An City) organized "Weekend playground" program No. 14 for young workers and people in Dong An 1 neighborhood to create a playground that is healthy, friendly, and high quality for union members and young workers.

On Saturdays, after dinner, workers in Dong An 1 neighborhood called each other to join the weekend playground, everyone was very excited. Le Van Thanh, born in Ca Mau, has been a worker in Binh Duong for two months, shared: “I heard that Binh Duong is a good land and workers receive many supports, so I decided to come here and apply to be a worker. True to these words, I came here to have a stable job and participate in many healthy and useful activities”.

Joining the weekend playgrounds, young workers can immerse themselves in activities, such as folk games, free haircuts, job introduction and consulting, legal support, reproductive health consulting, marriage and family... and watching street and acoustic performances performed by youth union members, clubs, and groups. In addition, in order to improve legal knowledge, the program also has propaganda sessions about Road Traffic Law and necessary notes for people and youth union members when participating in traffic to ensure safety, avoid accidents and unfortunate consequences.

Also on this occasion, in order to show concern, timely encouragement, and sharing difficulties with workers’ children, the Organizing Committee awarded more than 40 gifts, including essential items, biscuits, milk, soft drinks, fish sauce... with a total cost of more than 10 million VND for young workers and children.

Children of young workers take part in games at the weekend playground program

Le Tuan Anh, Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Youth Union, appreciated the organization, implementation and coordination of members of the Project Organizing Committee, the Provincial Youth Activity Center and other units; At the same time, hoped that in the following activities, the program will continue to receive the attention, support, and participation of many young workers in each locality to further spread and bring positive values and meaning "to every corner, every breath" of every worker and child in the province.

Following the success of "Weekend Playground" No. 14, weekend playgrounds organized at other boarding houses have received the attention and enthusiastic participation of young workers. For example, weekend playground No. 16 was held at the People's Committee of Tuong Binh Hiep ward, Thu Dau Mot city. The organized activities were diverse and practical such as job introduction consulting; legal support, reproductive health, marriage and family; free haircuts, and musical performances by youth union members, clubs, and groups.

In addition, at this program Prof. Dr. Vu Gia Hien, Director of the Center for Research and Application of Cultural Tourism, under the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations, shared knowledge and experience gave a talk "Aspiration for Contribution - Youth's Way of Life" so that Youth Union officials, members, and young workers were infused with enthusiasm, spirit of solidarity, impulsiveness, responsibility, and creativity; attracted union members, young workers, and children to participate in youth unions, associations, and activities, contributing to gathering youth union members and young workers, creating a solid foundation for youth union activities and youth movements in the province.

With a diverse, creative, and close organization, weekend playground programs have been held in Binh Hoa and Lai Thieu wards (Thuan An city), Tan An and Tuong Binh Hiep wards (Thu Dau Mot city) and many other localities and have attracted a large number of young workers, children and people in the area. These activities contributed to the orientation, education, comprehensive development, creating a weekend playground and a friendly, fun, cohesive atmosphere, regenerating labor for workers and people.

Thai Kien Thuan, Director of the Provincial Youth Activity Center, said: “Currently, the needs of young people, especially young workers, for fun and entertainment, are extremely urgent, because after many hours of work and study, they need to regenerate their energy source. Organizing the weekend playground with diverse and rich organizational forms has contributed to bringing joy, heightening spirit and motivation to them. In the near future, the center will continue to organize more weekend playgrounds, the organization format will also be more frequently innovated to create attractiveness for the program; At the same time, right at the center there is a weekly playground so that people in Thu Dau Mot City or surrounding areas can come here to have fun every week...".  

  Reported by Ngoc Nhu - Translated by Ngoc Huynh

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