In the summer of 2012, young people in Binh Duong province will further get involved in many significant activities for a green environment, including planting green trees, eradicating illegal advertising boards…
Practical activities
To Do Ngoc Huy, vice-secretary of provincial Youth Union, the province’s volunteer youth campaign for a green environment will be launched at Chanh Nghia ward’s People’s Committee in TDM town on July 1 ahead, which expects to lure 500 local youths
At the launching ceremony, the local youths will get
involved in many practical activities, including planting 100 green trees at
Tran Binh Trong junior high school in Tan An commune; eradicating illegal
advertising boards on Huynh Van Luy street in Phu Loi ward; cleaning up Thu Ngu
canal in Chanh Nghia ward… 
Young people in Di An town planting green trees to protect the environment
Vo Binh Phuong, vice-secretary of TDM town’s Youth Union said that the local Youth Union will engage in activities on environmental protection in response to the campaign. Prior to that, the local youths also planted 100 green trees at Tan An B primary school in Tan An commune and TDM town’s Cultural House for Children.
Integral efforts in environmental protection
Provincial Youth Union and its affiliates have over time sped up dissemination of information about environmental protection. Noticeably, the role of the youth volunteers in environmental protection activities have obviously been shown through the models on environmental protection.
The whole province now has 90 voluntary youth squad on environmental protection. Only for a short time, more than 12,000 turns of youths helped the local people to make 120 km of rural roads, tidy up streets, clear canals…
Mr.Huy added that provincial Youth Union and its affiliates have recently worked out 86 youth works worth nearly VND300mln; dredged 20km of canals; cleaned up 125km of rural roads; planted nearly 1,500 green trees; collected waste along main streets, markets, bridges…and organized training courses on environmental protection…
Possibly speaking, the above practical activities have contributed to raising the local youths’ awareness of environmental protection while further affirming the role of the Youth Union in executing the Party and State’s policies and laws on environmental protection in particular and socio-economic development in general.
Reported by Mai Huy-Translated by K.T
