Summation Meeting for the Summer 2010 Voluntary Youth Campaign

Standing Deputy Secretary of Dong Nai Party Committee Le Hong Phuong attended the meeting.

Young volunteers from Dong Nai College of  Pedagogy present underprivileged pupils with bikes

The Summer 2010 Voluntary Youth Campaign, “Voluntary youth together with poor communes overcome poverty”, attracted more than 6,000 young volunteers from 20 universities, colleges, vocational high schools and armed forces based in Dong Nai.

In three months to launch the campaign, levels of Youth Union have appealed for donations towards the building and repairs of five houses of compassion and gratitude worth over VND100 million (US$5,237), presenting organizations with fifty computers, collecting more than seven tons of waste, having 88 kilometers of sewage systems and inter-field canals dredged, having 158 kilometers of rural road systems upgraded and built and planting 1,500 green trees.

In addition, voluntary youth forces donated 797 units of blood, giving free health check-ups and drugs to people which cost VND200 million (US$10,474) and visiting and presenting families who are government-policy beneficiaries, Vietnamese heroic mothers and underprivileged families with 1,500 gifts.

Also, they solicited more than VND300 million (15,711US$) in donations spent on 2,250   gifts, 150 scholarships, 10,000 notebooks, 1,500 pens, learning materials and 17 bikes for underprivileged children in far-flung areas...

At the summation meeting, the standing committee of Dong Nai Youth Union awarded certificates of merit to 15 collectives and 13 individuals with great achievements in the Summer 2010 Voluntary Youth Campaign.

Reported by Lien Huong, Translated by Duy Minh