Sharing difficulties
In the newly-built house, Mr. Lam Van Cao from Lac Hoa commune, Vinh Chau town, Soc Trang province, happily shared that his family was happy to receive the house from Vinh Hai Border Station under the Soc Trang provincial Border Guard Command.
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The Soc Trang provincial Border Guard Command presenting bicycles to disadvantaged students in the locality |
Previously, Cao’s family had a stable living standard. However, misfortune struck when his eldest son, aged 17, suffered from a mental illness. Every day, he sold lottery tickets, while his second son had to drop out of school to work and help the family. Learning about his family’s situation, Vinh Hai Border Station mobilized support of VND 50 million to build a great unity house for Cao under the “Border spring warms up people’s hearts” program.
According to Major Ho Minh Thien, Political Commissar of Vinh Hai Border Station, in 2025, the unit organized the “Border spring warms up people’s hearts” program with various practical activities, including providing free health check-ups and medicines; handing over a great-unity house; grating 18 scholarships, 21 bicycles, 500 notebooks to disadvantaged students; presenting 130 gifts to policy beneficiaries and poor households. In addition, the unit carried out cultural and artistic exchanges, folk games for ethnic people.
Since early January 2025, the border guards from provinces and cities have coordinated with agencies and units to organize the “Border spring warms up people’s hearts” program with a series of meaningful activities for people in border areas.
Orders from the heart
Attending the “Border spring warms up people’s hearts” program in 2025 at Vinh Hai Border Station, Chairman of the Vinh Chau town People's Committee Nguyen Thanh Liem shared that the gifts from the program would warm up the hearts of people in difficult circumstances in the maritime border area of Vinh Chau town, lighting up hope and belief for a better life. He hoped that the program would contribute to promoting the socio-economic development and improving people's living standards.
According to Senior Colonel Vu Quoc An, Deputy Political Commissar of the Vietnam Border Guard Command, since 2016, the Vietnam Border Guard Command has unified the “Border spring warms up people’s hearts” program as an activity to take care of people during the lunar New Year holiday. Since then, the command has directed the organization of the program at three levels.
With the support of central and local agencies, organizations, and individuals, and based on the conditions of each unit, the program is organized with various activities, including presenting houses, seedlings, livestock (cows, goats, pigs, ducks, chickens, etc.), public projects, livelihood models, Tet gifts, Chung cakes, and others to local people. Meanwhile, the organizing panel inquires after policy families, the elderly; conduct cultural, sports, art exchanges, folk games, and "zero-VND" booths to assist local people, to name but a few.
The program has continued to create a broad and deep impact on society, receiving attention from all levels and sectors, active participation from Party committees and local authorities, and support from ethnic minorities in border areas, becoming a festival of people in border areas.
Translated by Quynh Oanh