From now to the Lunar New Year 2023, the Vietnam Youth Federation and Students' Association at all levels in Khanh Hoa Province are going to organize several volunteering activities to promote social security in disadvantaged areas...
Several volunteering activities are going to be organized from now to the Lunar New Year 2023 by Vietnam Youth Federation and Students’ Association at all levels in Khanh Hoa Province, contributing to promoting social security in disadvantaged areas.
According to Nguyen Khac Duy, Vice-Chairman of Khanh Hoa Students’ Association, the Provincial Students’ Association has just issued a plan to organize a winter 2022 and spring 2023 volunteering program from now to the end of February 2023 across the province, especially in disadvantaged mountainous areas to support volunteer activities more effectively.
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Nha Trang City Youth Union members and young people join clean-up on Vinh Luong Beach. |
The activities are expected to inspire the spirit of volunteerism and mutual support among officials, members and young people to help children and people in difficult circumstances in remote areas, border areas and on islands, contributing to achieving the goal of sustainable poverty reduction and social security.
The program will include various activities, namely “For community’s sake” program, young doctors’ charity trips, volunteering for the community’s health, providing free health counseling and medicines for local patients, children and the elderly in the province; first-aid training for teachers and nutritional counseling for students’ parents at nursery and primary schools; blood donation mobilization.
For the children’s program, the Provincial Youth Federation at all levels will mobilize the donation of blankets, footwear, food, personal items, school items in disadvantaged areas and make good use of social resources to install and repair water filter systems, build libraries and playgrounds at schools in remote and disadvantaged areas; and construct houses for orphans and those in need.
Under the support program for farmers, the Provincial Youth Federation and the Students’ Association at all levels will organize volunteering groups to propagandize farming techniques for the winter - spring crop; mobilize social resources to assist those impacted by natural disasters in house construction and repair; implement the rural road lighting program; and urge the youth to get involved in voluntary work to help locals with home improvements.
A wide variety of social security activities will be also organized such as spring volunteering for Lunar New Year; journeys for those out of work and in need for the approaching Lunar New Year holiday; visit to military forces on duty during Tet; Lunar New Year celebration for poor residents, students, laborers, locals in borders areas, on islands and poor patients. The affiliations will work with local Military Staff Committees to launch "military-civilian affection and unity" spring program at the Military Zone 5 and "The tree–planting campaign in memory of Uncle Ho” 2023.
According to the targets, each affiliation carries out a youth project "Bright - green - clean - beautiful - civilized - safe" route and maintains 5 sites under regular coastal clean-up in 5 coastal districts and towns. Each district-level affiliation builds at least 1 new playground for children and repair at least 5 children's playgrounds. Each locality jointly with medical facilities provides medical check-up, counseling and treatment with free medicines for 300 residents.
Each district-level Vietnam Youth Federation mobilizes members to donate at least 300 units of blood; offers at least 300 gifts and 200 scholarships to disadvantaged students. Besides, the Provincial Youth Federation builds 2 houses for the needy in the province. District-level affiliations repair 10 schools and 10 houses for policy beneficiaries in need.
The Provincial Youth Federation has deployed the plan to all facilities throughout the province. The Provincial Youth Federation has assigned the Young Entrepreneurs’ Association to mobilize resources to give gifts to locals and children; assigned the Young Doctors’ Association to establish and direct district-level young doctors' clubs to organize charity medical trips, offering free check-ups and medications to the poor. In addition, district-level Federations and Students’ Association of universities and colleges will also perform assigned specific voluntary work.
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Translated by N.T
