On January 19, Provincial Red Cross Association - Standing Steering Committee for voluntary blood donation campaign of the province jointly organized the program "Pink Spring Festival" 2024. The program had the participation of Do Van Chien, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee; and representatives of Central departments and branches; Nguyen Hoang Thao, Permanent Deputy Secretary of Binh Duong Provincial Party Committee; Nguyen Thi My Hang, Chairwoman of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee; Members of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, and representatives of provincial departments, branches, branches, organizations, localities, and more than 1,000 volunteers in the province.
Do Van Chien (eighth from the right), Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee, along with provincial leaders, present Tet gifts to disadvantaged people.
Take good care of disadvantaged groups on Tet holidays
In the joyful atmosphere of Lunar New Year 2024, Binh Duong province happily welcomed the delegation of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front led by Do Van Chien, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee, who visited and gave Tet gifts to disadvantaged people in the province.
On behalf of the provincial leaders, Bui Thanh Nhan, Member of Provincial Party Standing Committee, Head of Provincial Party Mass Mobilization Committee, reported on the organization and Tet caring activities during the 2024 Lunar New Year for policy beneficiaries, poor people, and people having difficult circumstances in the province. Accordingly, the province's total budget to support beneficiaries during this Lunar New Year is about VND 600 billion. In particular, the source of social mobilization comes from the Fatherland Front at all levels and member organizations, such as: Labor Federation, Red Cross, Youth Union, Women's Union... mobilized more than 320 billion VND to care for policy beneficiaries and workers.
Chien expressed his respect and joy that Binh Duong provincial leaders always have directions and policies to take better care of workers and people in the area, especially during the Lunar New Year. These are practical activities to concretize the Party and State's direction in caring for the poor with the motto "leaving no one behind". He believes that the warm and meaningful atmosphere of this program will be spread extensively throughout the social community, so that every person and every family can have a truly warm Tet, filled with love and happiness. “I hope that the Party Committee, government and people of Binh Duong province will continue to develop their achievements, always be dynamic, creative and united to overcome all difficulties and challenges and contribute to the development of businesses, the development of the province and the country, for the whole nation's goal of “rich people–strong nation–equitable, democratic and civilized society”, so that everyone and every family can have a better life," said Chien.
In addition to thoughtful visits and encouragement, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee delegation in collaboration with Binh Duong province presented 1,000 gifts to the poor, workers, and people having difficult circumstances. Each gift included 1 million VND in cash and gifts worth 300,000 VND. This attention and care has encouraged the poor, workers, and people having difficult circumstances to continue trying to improve in their lives and can celebrate the traditional Tet warmly and together.
Sharing drops of blood
Previously, a large number of public employees, workers and people in the province gathered at Provincial Convention and Exhibition Center to participate in the "Pink Spring Festival" 2024 program. Many people took first few hours off of the working day to join the voluntary blood donation with the desire to share the red blood in their bodies with those in need of medical treatment.
Nguyen Thi Tuyet, teacher at Tuoi Xanh Kindergarten (Chanh Nghia Ward, Thu Dau Mot City), said this is her 10th donation, including 3 donations at the "Pink Spring Festival" program. “I really like joining this program, because when I came here I saw many volunteers sharing love by their red blood. Many sick people are in dire need of blood. I feel very happy that my blood donation will help them overcome their illnesses and return to their families. That's also the reason I want to continue participating involuntary blood donation," Tuyet said.
A large number of volunteers participate in voluntary blood donation at the "Pink Spring Festival" 2024.
In recent times, Steering Committee of voluntary blood donation has mobilized Youth Union of the province and districts, towns and cities, Red Cross Associations at all levels, Red Cross officers, members and volunteers in the province to actively propagate, encourage and spread this meaningful movement to many people. Thereby, more and more people participate in blood donation, making the province's blood donation movement increasingly develop, the quantity and quality of blood donation is increasingly improving. Especially in the past year 2023, with the attention, direction, support and companionship of agencies, units, businesses and Steering Committees in districts, towns and cities, the province's voluntary blood donation achieved nearly 28,000 units of blood, exceeding 145% of the target assigned by the National Steering Committee. Recognizing this achievement, the Central Committee of the Vietnam Red Cross awarded a certificate of merit to Provincial Steering Committee of voluntary blood donation for outstanding achievements in this work in 2023.
In 2023, Red Cross levels and Red Cross staff throughout the province made many efforts to overcome difficulties to mobilize resources to organize many meaningful, practical and timely humanitarian activities for people having difficult circumstances in the area, contributing to ensuring social security and successfully completing assigned political tasks. The total value of humanitarian activities at all levels carried out by the Red Cross last year was over 174 billion VND. With those excellent results, on this occasion, Provincial Red Cross was awarded the Outstanding Emulation Flag of 2023 by the Central Vietnam Red Cross Association.
Reported by Hong Thuan - Translated by Ngoc Huynh
