The summer youth volunteer campaign 2017 was launched in the Central Highland province of Dak Lak on May 28 with a view to encouraging youngsters to build new-style rural and civilised urban areas.
Dak Lak (VNA) – The summer youthvolunteer campaign 2017 was launched in the Central Highland province of DakLak on May 28 with a view to encouraging youngsters to build new-style ruraland civilised urban areas.
Head of the Party Central Committee's Commissionfor Mass Mobilisation Truong Thi Mai asked the Ho Chi Minh Communist YouthUnion Central Committee to promote the pioneering role of youths in remote,border and island areas.
The campaign will be carried out in 64 poor districts,coastal and island regions across the nation for three months.
Young people will help build 300 charity houses,build and upgrade roads, as well as provide health check-ups and medicines forover 500,000 residents in disadvantaged areas and grant 70 saving books to ex-youthvolunteers.
At the launching ceremony, young volunteers wentto ethnic people in Cu M’gar, Krong Buk, Buon Don districts, Buon Ho town, andBuon Ma Thuot city to build infrastructure and present gifts to poor childrenin far-flung areas in Dak Lak.-VNA
The youth unions across Hanoi have drawn up detailed plans for a wide range of voluntary activities to support local communities and help ensure social security this year.
A line-up of voluntary activities including Green Summer and Red Flamboyant campaigns will be included in the 2016 Summer Youth Volunteer Campaign, which was launched in Nghe An province on May 29.
More than 147,000 students, teachers, soldiers and officers from Ho Chi Minh City joined a youth volunteering campaign during this summer, heard a ceremony to review the event on August 14.
This year’s summer youth volunteer campaign will take place across the country from June 1 to August 31 for the youth to join hands in building new-style rural and civilized urban areas.
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At the launching ceremony (Photo: VNA)
