Le Nguyen Thanh Binh, Secretary of Ben Cat district’s Youth Union said: “The district’s Youth Union will join hands with the local Women’s Union, Center for Culture and Sports to organize a series of activities in celebration of Party and lunar New Year 2013. These activities will take place ahead and during the upcoming Tet (lunar New Year) holiday”.

Phu Giao district’s Steering Board for Poverty Reduction and Employment Creation last year disbursed more than VND4.5bln in loan for 228 turns of poor households to develop homebased business; built and handed over 57 unity houses to poor households; granted health insurance cards to poor households; opened 22 free vocational training classes and introduced jobs to 900 laborers…

Provincial Sponsoring Association for the Disabled, Orphans and Poor Patients yesterday organized its second congress for the 2013 and 2017 tenure.

At the conference, An Phu ward’s workgroup was granted the emulation flag (photo) and Nguyen Thi Kim Thu, head of the town division of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs received a certificate of merit from the provincial Fatherland Front Committee.

Specifically, typical young workers having contributions to all level youth unions’ activities as well as poor young workers will be granted bus tickets to return their home for Tet. More than 200 bus tickets to provinces such as Vinh Long, Binh Dinh, Quang Ngai, Can Tho, Tien Giang will be offered for alien young workers.

Provincial Women’s Unions at all levels last year attached special importance to raising the local women’s awareness and responsibility of environmental protection; mobilized them to promote environmentally friendly production models and take part in the target programs on protecting the environment and combating climate change. The Women’s Union of An Thanh ward in Thuan An town has mobilized the local women to use banana leaves to replace plastic bags for environmental protection.

Binh Duong has so far set up a list of 15 projects on urban water drainage and water waste treatment. These projects have completed their procedures for investment and some are under construction, including the project of TDM city’s water drainage system and the project of South Binh Duong water environment improvement.

A delegation from the Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank’s Binh Duong branch has just visited and presented 79 gifts to lonely and disabled elderly people at provincial Social Support Center in Thuan An town’s An Son commune.

Under the plan, the VFF will donate more than 11,000 gifts worth VND3.34 billion to poor households.

Amid lively ambience of the days near Tet 2013, we pay visits to some companies to learn about activities of Tet attention for workers.

FAO representative Ken Shimizu made the commitment at a seminar held in Hanoi on January 15 by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).