Through provincial Fatherland Front Committee, Kim Oanh Real Estate Joint Stock Co. (JSC) supported VND320mln for residents and soldiers on Vietnam’s Truong Sa Archipelago.

With the theme of “Young people in North Tan Uyen district actively participate in urban civilization and new rural construction”, the 2014 Summer Youth Volunteer Campaign in North Tan Uyen district will take place with many significant activities.

After many years of hardship, the lives of ethnic minority people in Phu Giao district have been stabilized. This result has came from the attention & support of the local authorities at all levels and the efforts by the local people.

On June 8, nearly 1,000 kids who are children of laborers working at the provincial industrial parks attended the festival for children co-held by the provincial industrial parks' trade union, VSIP trade union, the provincial youth union for corporates and Nam Long Investment JSC at Ehome 4 residential area, Vinh Phu ward, Thuan An town. Nearly 1,000 kids join in the festival for kids at Ehome 4 residential area in Vinh Phu ward, Thuan An town. At the festival, the organizing board granted 300 English scholarships funded by Bolt Institute of Binh Duong University, 100 gifts each worth VND500,000 to underprivileged and talented pupils. Children also enjoyed musical items, circus, folk games and gifts.                                                                                                                    Reported by T.Le - Translated by A.C

On June 7, Tan Uyen town division of Culture and Information held a cultural family festival on the anniversary of Vietnamese Family Day (June 28). As many as 8 families participating in the festival competed in 4 exam parts including family knowledge, music performance, sport and cooking. The festival is really a healthy and useful playground and simultaneously is a good chance for families to exchange and share living experiences, skills of building a happy family, honor typical families and Vietnamese family culture as well as affirm the society's responsibility on building cultural family in the community.                                                                                                        Reported by N.Phuong - Translated by A.C

They are young people full of enthusiasm. Aside from their work, volunteer work is their joy and heart. Therefore, they join positively in charity journeys to help the poor. Doctor NguyenVan Cong (left) checks health for Lo To hamlet’s residents. To come with poor people in Lo To hamlet, Ham Can commune, Ham Thuan Nam district, Binh Thuan province in the end of May, these volunteers had to depart from Binh Duong at 10 p.m. Arriving in Binh Thuan, these volunteers faced a heavy rain and streets leading to Lo To hamlet was too small, so they carried equipment and gifts on their shoulders and went on foot to the hamlet. Seeing local poor people’s waiting and eager eyes, these volunteers felt happy and their tiredness seemed to disappear. Nguyen Thanh Nam, head of Lo To hamlet said “Lo To is one of poor localities of Binh Thuan province. This hamlet has 104 households with 260 people and has yet had electricity network while main water source in service for local people’s life is from springs. Most of the local residents are manual laborers”. Doctor Nguyen Van Quy (left) gives healthcare consultancies for the poor. Phong Thi Son, 80, the Cham ethnic person said that her house is far from the commune health station, so she often buys medicines at groceries near her house. Nguyen Van Ha, 60, said “People in the hamlet are immigrants working for dragon fruit growing plantations and they are living in shortage of material and spiritual life”. Perhaps, owing to difficult circumstance, the whole of the hamlet has only one child studying at a university and the remaining children quited school right from the 6th or 7th grades. Doctor Nguyen Van Duc, director of Binh Duong provincial Traditional Medicine Hospital steered all periods of health check-up, gift offering while doctor Nguyen Van Cong of Binh Duong provincial General Hospital and doctor Le Van Quy of Eastern International Hospital were rapidly both checked health and gave healthcare consultancies for local people. They said that it was very difficult to arrive at such remote areas. Doctor Lai Ngoc Dung of Binh Duong Medicine College is both a doctor and an enthusiastic donor because he brought his medical equipment to cater for local people. Many medical tools such as blood test machine, ultrasonic machine and so on helped health check-up and treatment on that day become more convenient. Youths grant gifts to the poor. Apart from 150 people enjoying health check-up and gift cards, people in other hamlets also arrived at the Lo To hamlet to receive gifts and enjoy health check-up and treatment. Meanwhile, young people granted gifts including instant noodle, rice, sugar, salt, soya sauce, clothes worth nearly VND500,000 per portion to the poor. Especially, the delegation members subscribed VND5mil to grant local disabled people. The total value of gifts and medicines in this charity journey was more than VND100mil, helping local needy people reduce difficulties in life. Tran Thi Thu Loan, a positive member of 7X Sai Gon group shared “We are an open group on facebook. We lure numerous youths from Ha Noi, Hue, HCMC and our goal is to spend saving money of individuals and mobilize relatives and friends to do charity. We self practice lifestyle how to love and share with unlucky people and after every charity journey love of the group members become better and we consider the group as our big family”.                                                                                                               Reported by Q.Nhu – Translated by A.C

A ceremony was held in Con Co island district, central Quang Tri province on June 8 to kick off construction on a kindergarten and primary school on the island.

To support university entrance exams' contestants, the 2014 program of exam season assistance launched by the provincial Students' Association starts action plans. After 3 years of launching, the program of exam season assistance in Binh Duong becomes familiar with local people. Contestants of the previous university entrance exams support for examinees of the later exams. Therefore, the program helps and supports thousands examinees. In this year, the exam season assistance program is officially launched from June 25 to July 16. The program's locations are at the provincial Coach Terminal and exam areas of universities and colleges. Trinh Thi Thuy Hang, vice chairwoman of the provincial Students' Society said that organizing universities entrance exams is held at several universities and colleges in Binh Duong, so the number of university entrance examinees is not too crowd like universities and colleges in Ho Chi Minh City. Therefore, this year's exam season assistance program continues to maintain and uphold the results of the previous programs. Accordingly, this year's program includes instructions of ways to bus stations, exam areas; consultancies, guidances and supports for examinees and their relatives to help them find out exam addresses, exam rooms and complete exam procedures; finding and offering cheap price and free lodging rooms for examinees and their relatives; granting leaflets on exam information for contestants and so on. With the large number of examinees, Thu Dau Mot University has many experiences in holding the exam season assistance program. According to Tran Duc Hoan, vice secretary of Thu Dau Mot University youth union, the 2014 exam season assistance program in Thu Dau Mot University will be officially held from the middle June till the end of July 16. At present, the university youth union has received more than 300 applications from volunteers. After a selection and interview, the university youth union will select 100 volunteers for the program. "With increase on examinees in this year, this will make an increase on accommodation, so the university's volunteer teams will survey, introduce and solve accommodation demand of about 2,000-3,000 examinees. In addition, with 7 exam locations of the university, there will be 8 volunteer teams to help this year university entrance exam gain successes", Hoan added. As such, along with the provincial Students' Society, the Students' societies of local universities and colleges are busying to draw plans for implementing the 2014 exam season assistance program. This is a very significant deed, showing the youth unions' enthusiasm for examinees, helping contestants and parents feel secure in mind to gain high results in the important university entrance exam.                                                                                                                    Reported by T.Le - Translated by A.C

The festive day for kids is the first program in the Month for Children with cultural, artistic and sport activities and the second one is the musical show named "For children's happiness". These programs will contribute to create useful and healthy playgrounds for kids. Month for children in this year includes a provincial level forum themed "Children with accident prevention and injury control"; focuses on dissemination of the Politburo's Directive No.20 on "spurring the Party's leadership on taking care for and educate children in the new period"; program on child protection for the period of 2011-2015 and so on. Youths and unionists grant gifts to orphans at Bo De Dao Trang Temple.In order to help children enjoy a safe, healthy summer, sectors, mass bodies at all levels always hold cultural, artistic and sport activities for children by many forms including folk games, football, badminton, table-tennis, swimming, excursion and among others in a bid to attract and uphold children's rights. In addition, children are oriented, educated to preserve and promote traditional cultural values and not to use and play violent and pornographic and toxic games. Especially, the functional agencies use provincial budget to hold free swimming classes in summer for 1,000 children in especially difficult circumstances. Aside from the done results, Binh Duong in reality remains cases triggering concerns among society. These cases include child violence, child sexual abuse, abandoned children, accidents and injuries in children, child labor, street children and etc. In industrial localities, parents must go to work all day at factories and companies, so they have no time to attend training courses as well as meetings, so knowledge on taking care for children and ensuring children's rights and benefits is also restricted. Furthermore, owing to constant change of residence of laborers, it is difficult to approach children and help them enjoy adequately services of protecting and taking care for kids. To bring a useful, happy summer for children as well as to create a positive change on awareness and action of children, the provincial leaders require all level sectors, agencies, organizations, parents and the whole society must give special priorities for children; pay attention to fostering a bright, innocent and happy soul; join forces to create a safe, friendly and healthy environment for all children. Localities should disseminate strongly and widely purpose and significance of the Month for children and launch Plan on summer 2014; offer the best conditions and healthy, significant and useful playgrounds for kids; accelerate socialization playgrounds for children; mobilize sources to serve summer activities; hold significant activities to charm numerous kids; maintain mobilization of social sources to join hands to protect, take care and educate local children in especially difficult circumstances. In addition, agencies and sectors at all levels should strengthen cooperation and further improve awareness and action and specify responsibility of grassroot party cells, social and political mass bodies, sectors and agencies as well as cadres, party members and people on the work on taking care, educating and protecting children; spur strongly the movement of all people join in taking care, educating and protecting children; spurring the work on grassroot inspection on using child labor and among others.                                                                                                                Reported by V.Son - Translated by A.C

Le Hoang Quan, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee, speaks at the meeting (Photo: VNA)

As part of activities celebrating the 2014 Month for Young Workers, Di An town’s Labor Union has just organized a delegation to visit and present gifts to needy employees at town-based enterprises.

Early June 6, provincial Plant Protection Department held a conference to sum up its programs, models and projects in 2013 and define measures for 2014.