Part 3: Furniture offered to policy beneficiary families

Over the years, carrying out the task of "Gratitude," Binh Duong has not only reviewed and built gratitude houses for families and people with merit contributions but also donated essential furniture to express more warmth and full of love. It is the right policy of the province so that each family has a solemn place worshiping heroic martyrs; a desk to welcome guests, TVs, etc.

Tran Thanh Liem (third from the right), Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the provincial People's Committee talked with families to receive furniture essentials

The love from grassroots

Talking to us, Nguyen Hong Tu (year of birth: 1952, in Phu Loi ward, Thu Dau Mot city), a 2/3sick soldiers, said: "He joined the resistance at the age of 17 in the battlefield Quang Tri . He was then wounded and brought to Northern heal. In 1980, he took his family to the new economic zone in Binh Duong. He and his wife have 2 daughters, but due to Agent Orange from father, the brain develops slowly. The grandparents now live on sick leave with the planting of clean vegetables on neighboring land to sell their livelihoods to two children. The life of his family is quite difficult. Recently, he was awarded the chair by the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of TP.HCM. He is very happy to be considered by the Party and State. "

Doan Thi Thu Hong, Head of the Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs Department of the Thu Dau Mot Township, said that from 2017 until now, besides the families who have been given essential furniture, Oil One also considered donating to poor families from the "For the Poor" Fund with 29 churches, 51 sets of tables and chairs, 8 beds with the cost of 496 million. Mr. Nguyen Hong Tu's family is one of them. In addition, the city also grants "Gratitude" Fund donates 11 beds to the policy families with the amount of 33.5 million.

Not to criticize the fund "For the poor", Fund "Gratitude", in some localities, associations, unions of communes, wards and towns in the province also stand out mobilize donations of churches, Television for family policy, especially Vietnamese heroic mothers. Most recently, the Women's Union of Thanh Tuyen Commune (Dau Tieng), the Youth Union mobilized benefactors to visit and donated the altar and gift parcels worth VND7 million to Vietnamese Mother To Thi Be (born in 1933) in Suoi Cat hamlet, Thanh Tuyen commune. Her husband Nguyen Van Hinh and son Nguyen Van Chien sacrificed in the war against the US Army, now she is living with her daughter. She said, for her, the cabinet is not only material value but also a great source of spiritual encouragement, helping her to have more fun to care for her husband, children a place of worship themselves.

The house is warmer

On the provincial level, taking care of material and spiritual life for people with merit, in addition to donation of gratitude houses, medical examination and treatment ... since 2011, the sector has coordinated with the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee VNAH mother and heavy war veterans, proposed to donate furniture equipment for the family difficult. From 2011 up to now, the province has donated interior furniture for people's families with the budget of more than VND 12 billion including: Church, table, chair, bed, television ... Tran Thi Kim Lan, Vice According to the Provincial Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, small gifts have been handed over to the families of the policy makers, who brought joy to the people who have contributed to the cause of life and continue to devote their lives to the country.

In addition to the beneficiaries of the VNAH mother family, sick soldiers and wounded soldiers, in 2016, the visit to and donation of essential furniture for policy beneficiaries has been extended to both war invalids, 3/4 and 4/4; families of people with meritorious services and other subjects. Currently, the Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs Department has coordinated with the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee to survey 148 cases of furniture donation. These families will be awarded in 2018 with a total amount of nearly 500 million VND, taken from provincial budget.

Reported by Thien Ly – Translated by Vi Bao