Provincial Women’s Union has just joined hands with provincial Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs to kick off a program on “Job consultancy and vocational training for rural laborers” and disseminate the campaign “Vietnamese people give priority to using Vietnamese goods” to chiefs and deputy chiefs of the local Women’s Unions of 91 communes, wards and townships.

Since the start of this year, the provincial Women Union at all levels have implemented the supportive movement for women’s homebased business development. The movement has lured over 5,500 sisters to help over 9,400 needy women with the total value of VND17.5bil. Besides, all level sub-societies subscribed VND17.5bil from the program of “Day for poor women”. From the collection, 2,905 poor sisters enjoyed non-interest loans worth more than VND2.5bil.

The provincial department of Training and Education cooperated with Viettel Binh Duong to hold a summing ceremony on Internet school linkage program on Dec. 15.

Born into the world as a handicap, Huynh Thi Ha Xuyen, who is now the 8th grade student of Tan Binh senior High School in Tan Uyen, has overcome difficulties to become a good family child and excellent student.

Early Dec.14, provincial Businesswomen’s Club forwarded a conference to sum up its activities in the second tenure of 2008 and 2012.

Early Dec.14, provincial Buddhist Sangha’s Sub-Committee for Nuns held a conference to sum up its activities in 2010.

The club is expanding to all volunteers in the province irrespective of their positions or religion the share common target of helping people through difficulties to be integrated into the community. Established in 1993 the club is a part of province’s Red Cross. Taking the teaching of Uncle Ho to protect people’s health and by a true heart do whatever meaningful to reduce grief, the club has been operating and reaching to other provinces in the past 5 years. They come with a kind heart as well as gifts to flood-hit and remote areas, to ethnic communities, to handicaps, to Agent Orange victims, to heroic mothers, and to the poor.

The Japanese Government signed a contract on Dec. 10 to give aid to hearing impaired children at the Thuan An Centre for Handicapped Children in the southern province of Binh Duong.

In 2010, Tan Uyen district is home to 21 cooperatives with 649 members and around 450 laborers, up 3 compared to 2009.

In 2008, after joining in a training course on horticulture held by Tan Uyen district Youth Union, Pham Minh Tuan was charmed by a model of planting orchids. With 500 initial orchid trees, he has drawn experiences for himself and searched more information from other orchid growers. After that he purchased additional 2,000 other orchid trees worth VND20mil. As a result, he has gained the initial success.

Since the start of this year, Ben Cat district has occurred 14 collective labor disputes with the participation of 8,757 workers. The labor disputes happened at My Phuoc I, II, III, Viet Huong II IPs and some businesses outside IPs. The reason of the disputes lay in slowness of salary payment and so on.

A relief delegation from Binh Duong provincial Fatherland Front Committee (FFC) visited and presented gifts to ethnic minority people in two districts of Dac Ha and Dak To districts in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum.

Deputy Chairwoman Luu Thi Nguyet Suong of Provincial Red Cross announced plan to call for donation of 425 blood units as backup for emergency during Tet holiday.

*Contest of “Opening piggy banks” to raise funds for the poor kicked off

To solve overload at state-run nursery schools, mobilizing different sources in the society to develop schools and expanding private nursery schools are an urgent issue. However, the form of education socialization, especially in nursery schools has showed many problems. Companies should actively develop nursery schools right at their unit to bring secure feeling for workers.