The gifts included 25 bicycles, 300 notebooks, and 100 boxes of fresh milk, worth VND 40 million in total.
The Cu Bai Border Post also mobilized local people to offer 60 other gifts, mainly necessities, worth VND 20 million in total, to poor households in the communes.
* On March 9, troops of the Binh Hai Border Post and Border Flotilla No.2 under the Quang Ngai provincial Border Guard Command joined hands with people in Binh Chau commune, Binh Son district, to make a 1,500m-long and 2.5m-wide concrete road.
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The road used to be in a very poor condition, causing difficulties for local people to travel and transport goods.
* On the same day, Naval Region 2 handed over a house of comradeship to the family of Captain Nguyen Van Thanh, an officer of the unit, residing in Long Hiep quarter, Long Dien town, Ba Ria-Vung Tau province.
The 70-sqm gratitude house was built at a cost of VND 200 million in total, including VND 70 million from the naval region’s fund.
At the hand-over ceremony, the unit’s commander offered necessities to the recipient.
* From March 8 to 10, Division 302 of Military Region 7 mobilized over 700 troops to harvest nearly 70 tons of pepper for people in Xuyen Moc district (Ba Ria-Vung Tau province) and Cam My district (Dong Nai province).
Translated by Van Hieu