PANO – Lieutenant General Nguyen Trong Nghia, Deputy Director of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People’s Army, on May 22nd received a delegation of heroic Vietnamese mothers from Tien Giang province on their visit to Hanoi.

At the meeting, general Nghia inquired after and presented gifts to the delegates. He said that over the past time the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defence suggested issuing guidelines and policies in support for revolutionary contributors, conducted search projects for remains of fallen soldiers, and actively took part in gratitude activities.

Heroic Vietnamese mothers from Tien Giang province at the meeting. (Photo: infonet.vn)

 

Since 2006, the whole army has built around 12,000 houses, contributed VND 600 billion to the Gratitude Fund, taken care of more than 1,400 heroic Vietnamese mothers, and provided jobs for over 200 children of war invalids and sick soldiers.

The officer hoped that the delegates would continue mobilizing their children, grandchildren, and locals to strictly follow and implement the Party’s guidelines and the State’s policies.

Translated by Tran Hoai