Provincial Women’s Union contributes to bringing Vietnamese goods to customers

Provincial Women’s Union over the past five years mobilized members to actively carry out the campaign of “Vietnamese people give priority to using Vietnamese goods (briefly called the campaign). Thanks to mobilization work well implemented, each member was very active in buying and using domestic commodities.

Upholding members’ role

Over the past five years, Thuan An town’s Women’s Union sped up dissemination of information of the campaign among members and people from all strata. The local Women’s Union also regularly took members to supermarkets for shopping and teamed up with domestic producers to help them distinguish between genuine products and fake ones, aiming to protect their rights and interests.

Women selecting goods at a Vietnamese goods fair

Thuan An town’s Women’s Union has so far set up many clubs of “Vietnamese people give priority to using Vietnamese goods”. Established in 2010 with 30 members, An Thanh ward’s club of “Vietnamese people give priority to using Vietnamese goods” has worked very effectively. Along with mobilization work, it is also a place to protect women’s rights and interests when using Vietnamese goods.

According to Le Thi Pha, Deputy Head of the club, the club is a place for women to exchange and share experience in buying Vietnamese goods and its 30 members are also propagandists of the campaign.

To date, provincial Women’s Unions at all levels have established 19 clubs of “Vietnamese give priority to using Vietnamese goods” with 521 members. These clubs have worked very effectively, contributing to building up Vietnamese trademarks.

Provincial Women’s Unions at all levels have also sped up dissemination of information about the campaign via many forms among women, thereby contributing to bringing into full play their patriotism.

Effectiveness from mobilization

Over the past five years, provincial Women’s Unions at all levels held 1,243 propaganda shows on the campaign with the participation of 67,336 members; teamed up with provincial Customer Rights Protection Association to open 22 training courses for members, helping raise their awareness of consumption towards domestic commodities.

Provincial Women’s Unions at all levels also organized many market-days of “bringing Vietnamese goods to rural areas”, helping members and rural people easily get access to hi-quality Vietnamese goods. Particularly, Phu Giao district’s Women’s Union last year coordinated with the district’s Division of Culture and Information, the Center for Trade Promotion and Economic Information under provincial Department of Industry and Trade to organize market-days of “bringing Vietnamese goods to rural areas” at Phuoc Hoa Rubber Joint Stock Company’s Center for Culture-Sports and Tan Long commune’s Cultural House, meeting the shopping demand of thousands of members and locals.

In addition, provincial Women’s Union joined hands with Citimart supermarket to organize goods-selling points with stabilized price in 11 communes. Tran Kim Hoa, a resident in Phu Giao district’s Vinh Hoa commune said that the program of “bringing Vietnamese goods to rural areas” over time helped raise locals’ awareness of using Vietnamese goods.

Dang Thi Mong Huyen, Vice-Chairman of provincial Women’s Union said that the biggest success of provincial Women’s Unions at all levels in the implementation of the campaign over the past time was to change domestic customers and producers’ awareness and action. In fact, there has been a sharp increase on consumption power for Vietnamese goods at rural markets and using domestic goods has become a habit of locals…

Reported by Quynh Nhien-Translated by K.T