Chairman of the association Vu Trong Kim said there are 500,000 former youth volunteers in Vietnam, many of whom are still facing hardships. Given this, the association has carried out many activities to assist former youth volunteers, including raising funds to build 4,000 houses and open 7,000 savings accounts for the needy.
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President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and representatives of the Vietnam Former Youth Volunteers’ Association in a group photo in Hanoi on July 26 |
On behalf of Party and State leaders, President Phuc offered the best wishes to former youth volunteers nationwide and called on them to continue making contribution to national development and defense.
Stressing the Party’s and State’s consistent attention to the national contributors, he spoke highly of the association’s initiatives to care for its members, expressing his hope for increasing the ones who not only bravely fulfilled their duties in resistance wars but have also excelled in poverty reduction and livelihood development.
He pointed out that 4,298 former youth volunteers with injuries and 275 others falling down in battlefields haven’t been recognized as wounded soldiers or martyrs, while more than 9,000 former youth volunteers and their descendants suffering from Agent Orang/dioxin haven’t benefited from preferential treatment. This is a problem that authorities and the association need to work together to address.
The State leader also asked the association to coordinate with the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee and relevant agencies to boost education of the youth on revolutionary traditions, resolve issues related to former youth volunteers, and propose amendments to the legal documents on policies for them.
Also on July 26, President Phuc attended a ceremony to commend outstanding national contributors in the people’s public security force.
The event saw the presence of 461 delegates representing tens of thousands of wounded soldiers, martyrs’ families and other national contributors working in the force throughout history.
Appreciating their dedication to the Fatherland, the President highly valued the Ministry of Public Security’s efforts to care for them.
He told the force to continue effectively carrying out the Party and State’s policies on national contributors; join other ministries, sectors and localities in the verification and recognition of contributors, the search, repatriation and identification of martyrs’ remains, and the restoration of war cemeteries and monuments; and strongly investigate wrongdoings in the implementation of policies.
The leader also requested practical and effective assistance for relatives of the contributors, voicing his belief that the wounded soldiers, martyrs’ families and other national contributors in the public security force will contribute more to the safeguarding of national security and social order and safety.
Source: VNA