Through practical activities, the unit’s troops have not only helped enhance locals’ living standards, but also strengthened military-civilian solidarity.
As a poor household in Hat Ta Ven village, Keng Du commune, Mr. Luong Van Duong’s family managed to build a VAC (Vuon (Garden), Ao (pond), Chuong (stable/sty)) economic model with the assistance from troops of Keng Du Border Post. The unit’s personnel have provided his families with animal husbandry techniques and methods of improving soil, making compost, digging ponds, and growing wet rice.
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Troops of Keng Du Border Post helping locals build a road |
With the assistance from border guard troops, Mr. Duong’s fallow land was transformed into a farm with hundreds of chickens, ducks, pigs and a 500sq.m pond. The life of Mr. Duong’s family has improved dramatically.
Mr. Xeo Pho Thoong in Huoi Cang village is another typical example. Learning about the difficult situation of Mr. Thoong’s family, Keng Du Border Post decided to provide breeding stock, assist him in building breeding facilities, and equip him with essential methods to protect poultry from diseases. The border post also assigned non-commissioned Major Phung Van Long to giving regular assistance to Mr. Thoong’s family. Thanks to the practical support, Mr. Thoong now has a paddy rice field, a fish pond, a flock of more than 50 ducks, and dozens of pigs and cows. “Now my family has escaped from poverty. My great thanks to the border guards!” said Mr. Thoong.
According to Major Tran Van The, Political Commissar of Keng Du Border Post, Keng Du is a mountainous commune with rough terrains, harsh weather conditions, and a poor road system. Despite preferential policies from the Party and State, local people are still facing numerous difficulties and the proportion of poor households is still high.
To help local people improve living standard, the Party Committee and Chain-of-Command of the border post have developed different measures and well cooperated with local party committee and authorities to disseminate and mobilize locals to strictly observe the Party’s guidelines and State’s policies and law.
Apart from helping locals develop economic models, Keng Du Border Post is providing a monthly allowance of VND 500,000 each for two needy students of Keng Du Boarding Secondary School and another one of Pieng Hong Secondary School in Bo Nhia village cluster, Noong Het district, Xieng Khouang province, Laos and monthly allowance of VND 3.6 million each for two ninth graders from Keng Du Boarding Secondary School.
The border post has also mobilized units, organizations, and benefactors to effectively maintain a model to provide free clothes and necessities for needy locals. Its youths have also taught local children computing skills free of charge.
The practical deeds of troops of Keng Du Border Post, as Party Secretary and Chairman of the People’s Committee of Keng Du commune Luong Van Ngam said, have contributed to gradually enhancing locals’ living standards and consolidating the locality’s political system.
Translated by Tran Hoai