At the event, agencies and units handed over a livelihood model, worth VND 20 million, to four poor, near-poor, and disadvantaged households in the locality. They also presented local needy women’s union members 50 gifts and 20 water filters. In addition, they gave VND 50 million to the family of Nguyen Thi Thang in Hamlet 4, Tan Hiep commune to help build a house.

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The Long An provincial Border Guard Command and other units present gifts to needy women’s union members.

Over the past time, Long An province’s Women’s Union Organization and Border Guard Command have regularly teamed up with other agencies and units in and outside the province to carry out a number of meaningful activities related to border women. They have disseminated information, developed new sustainable livelihood models, improved operational effectiveness of women’s unions at the grassroots level, and guided local women to safeguard national border security, territorial sovereignty, among others, to realize the locality’s socio-economic and cultural development goals, defense-security consolidation, and strong political system.

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Four disadvantaged households in Tan Hiep commune receive the livelihood model.

The “Accompanying border women” program held a humane meaning, encouraging border women to rise in life and mobilize joint efforts of the community to support extremely disadvantaged border communes. The program has contributed to improving both spiritual and material life of border women in particular and people in border areas in general, thus helping build safe, strong border areas, firmly defending the nation’s territorial sovereignty and border security.

Source: baobienphong

Translated by Mai Huong