(HBO) – In response to the campaign calling on women to build new-style rural areas, the Women’s Union in Yen Tri commune (Yen Thuy district) of Hoa Binh province have actively participated in joint work to help the commune meet criteria of new-style rural area on schedule, said Chairwoman of the commune’s Vietnam Women’s Union Pham Thi Nhung.
Members of the women’s union in Dong Mai village, Yen Tri
commune (Yen Thuy district) clean up a section of "women-managing road”.
Twice or thrice a month, women’s
unions in villages called on its members and local people to work together to clean
up local roads and remove weeds along the roads. The unions have established 14
women-managing roads and planted flowers along nine roads.
The unions also encourage
its members to donate to a fund to support 180 member households to repair and
re-build standard toilets under the ChoBa project.
In regards to garbage in
agricultural production, the women’s union of the commune persuaded locals to put
pesticide packaging and containers in appointed locations, thus raising their
awareness of environmental protection and building safe living environment.
The union also urged its
members to sort out family garbage, donate land to build roads (As a result, 15
households contributed 1,640 sq.m). Besides, members received assistance to
improve their mixed gardens and renovate houses with total cost of billions of
dong. Unions members contributed working days to dredge more than 280 km of canals
and rural roads.
Women’s unions in villages
have been dynamic in developing production activities. The women’s union of the
commune organised many training courses in side jobs and farming technique for members
every year.
It has devised various
models for economic development to raise women’s livelihood, including a Dien
pomelo growing cooperative in Ninh Hoa village with 24 ha, a model of taro
cultivation in Ao Hay village with the participation of 35 families, the free
range chicken raising model in Yen Xa and Ninh Hoa, and a banana growing model
in Minh Son.
In 2018, the union persuaded
422 local households to merge small rice fields to create large ones of 148 ha.
In addition, the union’s chapters operated six groups borrowing capital from
the Vietnam Bank of Social Policy. The groups provided loans worth more than
5.8 billion VND (248,145 USD) to 335 members. Five other groups borrowing
capital from the Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development, worth over 12.7
billion VND (543,350 USD)./.
A seminar on promoting the startup movement among high school students has been held recently by the provincial Department of Education and Training and the Vietnam National University of Agriculture at Tan Lac High School in Tan Lac district of Hoa Binh province.
In the morning of April 24th, at Uncle Ho’s Monument on Hoa Binh Hydroelectric Project, Vietnam Youth Federation coordinated with Hoa Binh Youth Federation to organize the journey "I love my Fatherland” to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Dien Bien Phu Victory.
From the fact that the market takes place only every Tuesday, Bo market in Van Son commune (Tan Lac) officially takes place every Sunday from March 24. Thereby, the aim is to turn the market into a place promoting the cultural identity of Muong people in Hoa Binh and the consumption of goods and products of the neighboring communes, meeting the needs of tourists for the local products when travelling to Van Son at weekends.
Nguyen Van Toan, Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee, chaired a meeting of the Steering Committee on Population and Development.
Hoa Binh province’s Department of Education and Training on April 16 held a conference on the materialisation of the Prime Minister’s directive on the further implementation of the project on the application of population database, e-identification and e-authentication for national digital transformation in the 2022-2025 period with a vision to 2030. The provincial Department of Education and Training signs cooperation agreements on cashless tuition fee collection with partners and businesses.
