PANO - The Da Nang City People's Committee on February 13th held a ceremony to hand over the State title of Vietnamese Heroic Mother to 335 local women, including four of them still alive.

The city's leader (R) presenting the title to Vietnamese heroic mother Nguyen Thi Dieu.

At the ceremony, the city's leaders expressed deep gratitude to the heroic mothers, whose husbands and children sacrificed their lives for national independence and freedom, and stressed that the Party, State and people would always take care for national contributors.

A total of local 3,088 mothers have so far received the State title, including 294 of them still alive.

* The same day, on behalf of the State President, the Dak Lak provincial People’s Committee presented the State title to 64 women in the locality. The province now has 469 heroic mothers in total, including 53 of them still alive.

In addition, several local officials were also awarded the Independence Order and the Labour Order at the event for their outstanding achievements in the national construction and defence cause.

Translated by Trung Thanh