Binh Duong Province has planned to mark the 67th year of Martyrs’ Day on July 27 with various tribute and gratitude activities heading towards socially privileged families and revolutionary contributors. Tan Hiep Phat Group give presents and money to socially-privileged families in Thuan An Town. Photo by T. Vy The activities include incense offering and visits to monuments, gift visits to families, care taking for Vietnamese heroic mothers, extension of support for families of martyrs in difficult situations, and the review of poor families to give out necessary support. Besides, the provincial authority has checked the implementation of policies preferential to contributors in localities, especially the actions of improving living standards of revolutionary contributors and titles of communes and wards implementing excellent tribute and gratitude drives for martyr families and contributors and proposals to district people’s committees to approve titles of such families and units for their contribution to the movements; monuments of martyrs have been renovated and cleaned up. Not July 27 alone or July but all the days of the year, Binh Duong Provincial authority has been taken thorough care for live hood of people and families who are socially privileged. Director of Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (DOLISA), Nguyen Thi Kim Oanh informed that Binh Duong authority had been managing 47,828 dossiers of contributors and 9,088 people offered monthly allowances of the State. Annually, the provincial authorities extract from State’s budget to support the tribute and gratitude activities. In the first 6 months of the year, DOLISA made decision on 177 dossiers of socially privileged families and individuals while accepting 118 ones registering for allowances and forwarding 25 ones to other localities outside the province. 62 dossiers received for one-time allowances to volunteer youths; 18 dossiers of monthly allowances and funeral fees for 182 relatives of revolution contributors across Di An Town. In Thu Dau Mot City, 3 charity houses have been built at the cost of VND 180 million; 19 houses repaired at over VND 192 million; 673 people offered with one-time allowances at over VND 4.1 billion; and preferential education fees of over VND 661 million. In districts and towns having martyrs’ monuments of Di An, Ben Cat, Tan Uyen, Dau Tieng, and Phu Giao, 1 remain of named martyr and 3 of unnamed martyrs have been buried. Families of martyrs have been supported VND 198 million to visit 114 tombs and moving their relative tombs to home town at the cost of over VND 131 million. Reported by Tuong Vy – Translated by Vi Bao