The 2017 Vietnamese Family Day themed "Warm Family Meal" aimed to raise public awareness of the value of families and moments family members enjoying meals together at home...
The 2017 Vietnamese Family Day themed “Warm Family Meal” aimed to raise public awareness of the value of families and moments family members enjoying meals together at home.
At the presents times, many people are so busy working that they have little time eating with their family members, children, parents and grandparents. Beyond health and nutrition, family meals provide a valuable opportunity for all people to spend time together, get closer and share fun and experience. Traditional cultural beauty is shown through family meals which feature the love, respect, understanding and care among grandparents, parents, couples and children, according to Le Van Hoa, Deputy Director of Khanh Hoa Provincial Department of Culture & Sports.
To promote the Vietnamese Family Day and thus honor traditional Vietnamese family values, local authorities have organized activities in response to Vietnamese Family Day (June 28). Accordingly, much propaganda and education have been boosted to raise public awareness of the Vietnamese Family Day. Businesses have been encouraged to make contributions to constructions and programs for disadvantaged children; hold talks and workshops to honor outstanding families, share child care experience; and promote traditional family values and the role of the family in social evil control and prevention.
Family values are important to everyone and every family. Therefore, every family member needs to take care of each other to build a happy and prosperous family, gradually bringing the Vietnamese Family Day into reality.
Under the cultured life and family construction tasks, Khanh Hoa Provincial Department of Culture & Sports has directed local communities to boost cultural, musical and sporting activities on the occasion of the Vietnamese Family Day, International Day of Happiness (March 20) and Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (November 25); honor outstanding cultured families; in cooperation with local departments and organizations boost propaganda, education; integration of family tasks and socio-economic development; and the movement “All people unite to build up the cultured life”, build cultured families, quarters, villages, agencies and enterprises; train family task officials at all levels to gain professional competence in family violence control and prevention; conduct surveys of family violence cases, provide domestic violence consulting services and so on.
Minh Thiet
Translated by N.T
