Summation ceremony of 2009 summer voluntary youth campaign

Youth volunteers are filled with joy at the ceremony

    With the slogan “Youth Join Hands in Building New Rural Areas” and the motto “Each Youth Union Member – One Voluntary Day, Each Youth Detachment – One Place to Do Voluntary Work and Each Grassroots Youth Detachment – One Voluntary Project and One Voluntary Job”. Youth volunteers from all parts of the province have actively participated in voluntary activities, achieved great results and have made a great contribution to building new rural areas. For example, 500 youth union members and youths participated in the movement “Exam Season Assistance”, provided instructions and advice for more than 3,200 students in 2009 university and college examination, called for donations and offered more than 2,250 gifts, 100 bikes and over 11,000 notebooks to poor children in hinterland and ethnic areas, planted 2,665 green trees, repaired roads, cleared bushes and dredged inter-field canals and held more than 800 summer classes for children, made a donation towards the building and repairing of 54 houses of gratitude and participated in environmental protection activities...

Youth volunteers burn incense and report on the achievements in front of their ancestors at Tran Bien Temple of Literature

    Attending and addressing the ceremony, Vice chairwoman of the provincial People’s Committee – Huynh Thi Nga praised the youth for the practical activities and achievements they have had and expected that the youth would become a major force to promote the movement of bringing the youth’s zeal and intelligence to hinterland areas and contributing to building new rural areas.

    On this occasion, the provincial People’s Committee awarded certificates of merit to 24 grassroots youth detachments, who enthusiastically participated in the program, “2009 Summer Voluntary Youth Peak Month”.

    Especially, at the ceremony, Dong Nai Youth Union organized a 15-year summation meeting about the voluntary youth movement and awarded twelve emulation flags to twelve youth detachments with an active participation in the 1995-2009 voluntary youth movement.

(Reported by Lien Huong, Translated by Duy Minh)