Over the past time, the Youth Union at all levels in the province have made great efforts to promote advantages, overcome difficulties, and drastically innovate contents and modes of operation. Typical results have been clearly confirmed in the first half of 2019-2024 term under the spirit of solidarity and promotion of youths to construct their homeland.
The Vietnam Youth Union of the province in collaboration with the Association of Young Doctors of the province organized the Festival of "Young doctors following President Ho Chi Minh's orders - Volunteer for public health" at Soc Bung hamlet of Thanh Phu commune in Binh Long town of Binh Phuoc province
To live greatly for the community
One weekend in May, the Vietnamese Youth Union of the province coordinated with the provincial Young Doctors Association to organize the Festival of "Young doctors follow President Ho Chi Minh’s orders - Volunteer for public health" in Binh Phuoc province. The road from Binh Duong to Soc Bung hamlet of Thanh Phu commune in Binh Long town of Binh Phuoc province was no longer long when the whole group brought sympathy and affection to people in remote areas of great difficulties. The festival was really the joy of the disadvantaged local ethnic people who were given medical examination, medicine, ultrasound scanning, health counseling, and gifts with peace of mind for their health.
On the occasion, the provincial Young Doctors Association also donated 100 boxes of medical gloves to the Medical Center of Binh Long town to assist medical examination and treatment. At the end of the festival, the whole delegation felt happy to have helped so many people in need. Since then, the association's volunteer programs and activities have become more meaningful with the volunteer hearts.
Last weekend, at the Cultural House of Thanh Tuyen commune in Dau Tieng district, the Youth Union of Dau Tieng district held a festival of "I love my fatherland", "Young workers' day in Dau Tieng district" and "Young doctors follow President Ho Chi Minh’s orders - Volunteering for community health". In these programs, the district's young people in different professions have participated in many useful activities for the people such as propagating the law on drug prevention and control, traffic safety, "VND 0 market fair" and free medical examination, by which, the young people examined and gave free medicine to 100 people and gave hundreds of gifts and necessities to young workers, children and people in difficult circumstances in the area.
Mr. Tran Bao Lam, Deputy Secretary of the provincial Youth Union, said that in the first half of the 2019-2024 term, the Vietnamese Youth Union of the province has promoted the role of young doctors and members in activities of volunteering for public health. In addition, the Youth Union at all levels coordinated with the provincial Young Doctors Association and the Young Doctors Clubs of districts, towns and cities to organize the Festival of "Young Doctors follow President Ho Chi Minh’s orders - Volunteer for the public health”; on the other hand, they organize many meaningful activities aimed at diverse subjects, medical examination and free medicine distribution for more than 74,000 people and children in difficult circumstances in many localities inside and outside the province. In addition, the association also implemented the model of "Charity bus - for community health" in the form of organizing shuttle trips through districts, towns and cities to visit, examine and distribute free medicines at home for Vietnamese heroic mothers and socially privileged families.
Training and devotion
More than 1,900 volunteer activities for social security have been widely deployed by ministries and agencies to advocate for the establishment and orientation of activities for local volunteer squads to solve social problems as concerned by all levels of associations in the province including the SOS Team, Youth Volunteer First Aid Team, Youth Quick Responding Team, Blood Bank Club, Young Workers Connection Club in all 9 districts, towns and cities.
Over the past time, by models and activities, the Youth Union at all levels in the province has awarded more than 4,100 gifts of worth more than VND 4 billion to disadvantaged children and families with meritorious services and soldiers working in border areas and islands of the country while campaigning to donate 98 charity houses, 47 "dream rooms" worth more than VND 6 billion to young people in difficult circumstances and considering giving more than 293 supporting packages worth VND 437.5 million from the fund to support young people in difficult circumstances.
In the remaining half of the term, the provincial Youth Union is required to implement many synchronous and innovative solutions in terms of content and mode of operation to care for, orient, create an environment and conditions for the youth of the whole province to train and devote to the common development of the country and the province. Mr. Tran Bao Lam added that in the coming time, the association will concretize volunteering movements through the development of annual programs and activities suitable to the characteristics of each youth; especially, young workers, and promote youth expertise in participating in the implementation of political tasks in the locality of the units. In addition, the association innovates the method of organizing volunteering activities in the direction of knowledge and continues to organize and improve the performance of annual volunteer activities.
“The association will also promote health care activities for the people while offering free medical examination and medicine for the poor to strengthen and renew volunteering activities at grassroots level. At the same time, it raises funds to support the poor, supports social security work and pays attention to the development of branches in enterprises outside the state sector to unite and gather more young workers," Lam said.
Reported by K. Tuyen – Translated by Vi Bao
