Senior Colonel Hoang Tuan Hien, Deputy Director of the Policy Department under the General Department of Political Affairs, chaired the event.
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Senior Colonel Hoang Tuan Hien addresses the event. |
On behalf of the national contributors from Nghe An, Vice Director of the Nghe An provincial Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs Ho Thi Chau Loan sent deep thanks to the MND for its thoughtful reception during the provincial delegation of national contributors’ visit to the capital city and paying tribute to President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum.
She underlined that over the past years, upholding traditions of the revolutionary land, the Party Organization, authorities, troops, and people of Nghe An province have surmounted difficulties, heightened the creative spirit and determination to obtain important and comprehensive achievements in different fields. Notably, the province has paid attention to carrying out policies for national contributors and social security programs.
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National contributors from Nghe An attend the meeting. |
After presenting the MND's gifts to 30 national contributors from Nghe An, Senior Colonel Hoang Tuan Hien informed them about the MND's activities over the past time, emphasizing that leaders at all levels have paid more attention to gratitude activities for national contributors.
In particular, over the past ten years, the whole military has mobilized officers and soldiers and other resources to contribute nearly VND 550 billion to the Gratitude Fund, built more than 7,000 gratitude houses, taken care of 2,879 heroic Vietnamese mothers, and provided care for 702 children whose parents are martyrs or wounded soldiers.
Regarding the search, collection, and verification of martyrs, Colonel Hien said that since 2012, the country has found and collected nearly 20,000 sets of remains of martyrs. So far, in the whole country more than 300,000 remains of martyrs have been gathered and buried in war cemeteries but not identified.
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An overview of the meeting |
Meanwhile, the military has pro-actively proposed measures and thoughtfully carried out policies for those who participated in the fight for national independence and international services. Defense agencies and military units have closely worked with functional agencies to provide one-time grants and monthly allowance to 260,000 people who participated in the resistance war against French colonialists, 1.7 million people who joined the Resistance War against U.S. invaders, more than 1.3 million people who fought in the national defense war and carried out international services in Laos and Cambodia, and 1.4 million frontline workers.
These aforementioned activities have contributed to the Party and people’s efforts in taking care of policy beneficiaries and national contributors and educating troops, especially young generations, on the tradition "When drinking water, remember its sources."
Translated by Quynh Oanh