Recently, the club held a regular meeting, themed “Families with five no's and three cleans” (namely, no poor people, no lawbreakers and social evils, no gender inequality, no violation against regulations on population, no malnourished children; and clean home, clean kitchen, clean alleys).
According to Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Thi Tran Thanh from the Mass Mobilization Team under Tam Hop Border Post, they have to use leaflets in combination with repeatedly conducting learning-by-doing methods to popularize laws among local residents.
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Troops of Tam Hop Border Post disseminate law to ethnic minority people. |
Pha Lom hamlet is home to 128 households with 767 citizens who are all from H’mong ethnic minority group. For years, Tam Hop Border Post has worked with local authorities and functional forces to boost law dissemination and education among local people, with a focus on women via a model: “Women and laws” club.
The club has drawn the active participation of local women, from 10 members at first to 16 at present. Annually, the border post meets with the club’s secretariat to discuss and choose the most updated topics related to their daily life.
Va Y Pia, Chairwoman of the club, shared that the intellectual level of almost all local women remains low. Meanwhile, they spend all day time on terraced rice fields. Thus, the organizers have to hold meetings at night so that all local women can join. Besides, the club has established a chat group on the Zalo messaging application to update information for those who work far from home or are on leave.
Apart from hot topics in regular meetings, Tam Hop Border Post has joined hands with the club and local authorities to disseminate other State laws, such as the Law on Marriage and Family, the Law on Gender Equality, the Law on Prevention and Combat of Human Trafficking, the Law on Vietnam Border Guard, the Law on Drug Prevention and Control, and other legal documents on borderline and protocols between Vietnam and Laos, to name but a few.
As a result, the club has effectively helped raise local women’s awareness of strictly following State laws, heightening vigilance against hostile forces’ plots, and teaming up with border guards to protect national sovereignty over borderline.
It is clear to say that the club “Women and laws” in Pha Lom hamlet is considered an “extend arm” of local authorities in popularizing State laws to their family members and villagers.
Translated by Chung Anh