At the event, more than 150 residents listened to information about the Party and State’s policies on sea and islands, and the Law on the Vietnam Coast Guard force. They were also briefed upon activities to ensure security order and safety in waters across Vietnam, the prevention and control of crime and violations of maritime law, the search and rescue operations, and the protection of sea environment and marine resources.
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Presenting portraits of Uncle Ho to ethnic and religious families in Hoai Hao Ward, Hoai Nhon Township |
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A coast guard officer disseminates law to local people. |
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Heroic Vietnamese mother Chung Thi Chinh, residing in Tan Thanh 1 residential area, Hoai Hao Ward, receives a gift from the Coast Guard Region 2 Command. |
On the occasion, the Coast Guard Region 2 Command provided free health check-ups and medicines, health counselling to over 100 local people. It presented 50 gifts and portraits of Uncle Ho to local ethnic and religious people and two other gifts to the families of two heroic Vietnamese mothers.
The same day, Defense-Economic Unit 778 under Military Region 7 teamed with other organizations and units to launch the “Green health journey and trade connectivity” program in Bu Gia Map District, Binh Phuoc Province (now Dong Nai Province).
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Gifts presented to the poor in Bu Gia Map district |
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Health check-ups provided to local people |
Under this program, more than 500 local policy beneficiaries, ethnic people and impoverished people had their heath checked for free and received medicines. Local specialties were displayed to boost trade connectivity. In addition, the organizing panel handed over facilities to two local schools, presents gifts to over 300 policy beneficiaries and poor people. They also inaugurated an over 2km lighting facility, visited local households’ orchards, and had cultural, artistic and folk game exchanges with local people.
According to Sr. Col. Hoang Van Hung, Political Commissar of Unit 778, the program aimed to enhance trade connectivity, develop local socio-economic development, and take better care of local people’s health as well as effectively implement the unit’s defense-economic projects in the district, and step up the new-style rural area building in communes in the district.
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Gifts presented to people from the Pa Co ethnic minority group in A Ngo Commune. |
On June 28, the Border Post of La Lay International Border Gate under the Quang Tri Provincial Border Guard Command in collaboration with Hanoi’s Xu Doai Charity Team presented 155 packages of gifts, including rice, instant noodles, fish sauce, cooking oil, mile, to needy people and students from the Pa Co ethnic minority group in A Ngo Commune, Dakrong District, Quang Tri Province.
Together with previous support of domestic animals, plants, welfare facilities, the gifts, according to Major Nguyen Van Tam, Deputy Political Commissar of the border post, were to partly help ease local ethnic people’s difficulties to step-by-step escape poverty.
The border post is going to present 300 gifts to needy people in A Bung Commune, Dakrong District in coming days.
Translated by Chung Anh