Accordingly, the event saw the participation of more than 50,000 young people and students across the city.
The campaign includes four main programs, namely “Spring of Identity,” “Spring of Sharing,” “Spring of Soldiers,” and “For a civilized Tet.”
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A large number of students join the campaign. |
It will take place at student dormitories, worker shelters, apartments, social facilities, border guard stations and check-points in the city, and so on. The organizing panel will provide free health examinations and medicines to 3,000 people and young people with difficult conditions.
Meanwhile, the participants will present Tet gifts to 2,000 patients who are children and needy people at hospitals; hand over 10,000 Chung cakes; plant at least 2,000 new trees; call on people to donate 1,500 units of blood; and set up 22 teams to control the traffic, etc.
This year, the highlight of the program is that the organizing panel has established volunteer teams in the South-central, Southeastern and Southwestern regions and Tay Ninh province to conduct activities in localities with difficult conditions, thereby helping local people have a warmer Tet (lunar New Year) holiday.
The campaign also focuses resources on voluntary activities in Thanh An island commune in Can Gio district (Ho Chi Minh City), in combination with activities to popularize tourism products and OCOP products.
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Participants at the event |
The 16th Spring Volunteer Campaign will run until February 7.
Translated by Quynh Oanh