The gratitude of borderland

It was a feeling of sacred pride on visiting each border milestone. In the border areas, in addition to border guards day and night guarding the land, there are also many people staying in the land and villages. Although life is still difficult, they are determined every day to build their homeland on the border. Accompanying them is many organizations and individuals in joint hands to make their lives less harsh.

The delegation visit Tuy Duc district Border Guard Station and take souvenir photos at the landmark 55

The heart

Wooden houses near Dak-Dang Border Guard Station at Quang Truc commune in Tuy Duc district of Dak-Nong province are built on red soil hills, hidden under trees with blue smoke in the afternoon, looking like a poetic and peaceful picture. Among them is the people staying in villages day by day supported to grow crops and raise livestock. The children are offered clothes and books to go to school.

Talking to us, Ms. Thi Nhon, a 28-year-old woman, said that she had 2 children and currently earns mainly as hired labor in coffee and macadamia fields. Ms. Nhon said, “I heard the staff informed me that a doctor had come to examine me, and give free medicine and gifts, so I was very happy. I'll bring my baby with me here!" Looking at the woman with small stature and old age before her age, holding the older child with her back and carrying the small child, we felt compassion for her mother and daughter.

There are also cases like Phan Thi Thu Ngoc, who is studying in grade 11. Her father just died from a stroke, and her mother has to work alone to raise 3 children. “Currently, my sisters and I live off of my mother's salary. I want to study better so that soon I can help my mother,” Thu Ngoc confided. Or like the case of two sisters who lost their parents; the older sister got married, so they had to rely on each other to live.

Accompanying border women

Coming to the people here, we feel their sincerity and simplicity, and at the same time have deep sympathy, wishing that more people would join hands to support and help women in the border areas rise up from poverty. "Accompanying border women" is a program launched by the Central Committee of the Vietnam Women's Union with profound humanistic meaning to arouse the will of women to rise up while promoting mobilize the cooperation and contribution of the whole community towards communes with special difficulties in border areas.

According to Ms. Truong Thanh Nga, Chairman of the Provincial Women's Union, this is the second time this program has reached the border people in Quang Truc commune. In 2019, the delegation donated VND 200 million to poor people to buy goat for breeding, developing goat herds, and stabilizing their lives. Also in the last time, the program donated necessities, and drilled wells to make it more convenient for people to live on . After a 2-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 epidemic, the program was resumed.

The delegation visit goat farming households funded from the program of "Accompanying border women" in 2019

This time, with the support of doctors and doctors of Binh Duong Medic Hospital, the delegation visited, examined and distributed free medicines to women and people of Quang Truc commune; they gave 200 gifts to the people. The members of the delegation also returned to visit the households that had been supported with livelihoods before and who did their business effectively, thereby, making appropriate adjustments. Back in Quang Truc, the parties signed the program of "Accompanying border women" for 2021-2025 and donated notebooks, bicycles to poor students, necessities as well as livelihoods to 12 households of poor women at a value of VND 8 million a household, helping them to do family business, and escape poverty and stabilize their lives.

At the signing event, units including the Binh Duong Women's Union, the Women's Union and the Border Guard Command of Dak-Nong province have agreed on the contents of cooperation in 2021- 2025. Accordingly, every year the parties organize propaganda activities related to border guards and Vietnam Women's Union to coordinate in propagating the Law on Gender Equality, the Law on Drug Prevention and Control, the Law on Prevention of Trafficking in Persons, the Law on National Borders, the Law on Vietnam's Border Guard, etc. to cadres, members, women, people, officials soldiers and soldiers of the border guard. In addition, the units will focus on supporting the Commune Women's Union, members, women, children, policy families, married families, and children who are soldiers working in border and maritime areas to accompany members in production, business, economic development, poverty alleviation, to step by step improve the material and spiritual life of women members in border areas.

Evaluating the program, 1^st Specialist M.D. Nguyen Thi Hong Phuong, Head of Charity Department of Medic Hospital, said that the activity was really meaningful. The medical staff and doctors of the hospital were all eager and excited to do their duty because that was how they help the community and expressed their love to soldiers and people in border areas.

At the border posts visits, we also felt the warm affection of the army and people. The units have synchronously and effectively implemented border guard measures to firmly protect the border sovereignty while maintaining political security, social order and safety in the area in charge. For the task of training and combat readiness, officers and soldiers always uphold their positivity and initiative in activities with a high sense of responsibility, closely guarding the assigned border section. Along with that, the unit actively and promptly grasps the peripheral situation, regularly maintains good external relations with the border guard force of your country, and advises the locality in the implementation of people-to-people diplomacy.

Saying goodbye to the people of Quang Truc commune, we hope that one day, when we will return in the program of "Accompanying border women", and we will see changes to richer and more beautiful land.

Reported by Quynh Nhu – Translated by Vi Bao