Summer Voluntary Campaign kicks off.

A lot of youth union members and students at the launch of the campaign.

The content of the summer voluntary campaign this year focuses on 5 big events, namely protect the native river, exam-support, encouraging students to stay in school, traffic safety education and joyful summer for children. They are essential and current affair issues mobilized extensively by Central Communist Youth Union to a lot of youth union members. In recent years, this movement has made a lot of meritorious achievements, showing the youth’s spirit “The  youth are always available wherever needed and wherever hard”. This year, environmental protection issues, specifically water source from rivers, waterway protection issue, have been really cared about.

Dongnai river originates from Lam Vien Plateau across 12 provinces and cities and plays an important role in the area’s development. It is one of freshwater sources, serving life and production of people in the area where the river passes. However, recently, the river has been contaminated due to waste water not treated thoroughly at industrial zones near the watershed along with people’s low awareness about environmental protection and bad sanitation. Therefore, at the current summer volunteer campaign 2008, youth union members will enthusiastically communicate and mobilize people, community, offices, agencies, factories, companies along river banks so that they ensure that they will altogether protect environment, water source, plant trees, protect  watershed,  plant trees to prevent blood, collect  wastes, preserve water traffic security, ensure ecological balance so that Dongnai’s scenes are always green, clean and beautiful.

Besides, at the launch ceremony, in order to maintain good results in the last years’ summer programs, programs such as exam-support, encouraging students to stay in school,

Take part in fishing out waste in Dongnai river.

 joyful summer for children, traffic safety education this year are also held thoroughly. Various activities will be carried out, including revision, knowledge improvement for weak students, encouraging and helping students leaving schools to go to school again, mobilizing people to set up illiteracy elimination and re-illiteracy prevention classes, calling for support for poor students, supporting candidates and their relatives in the college and university entrance exam 2008, preserving traffic safety and order, anti-illegal motor racing of the youth, holding educational and childcare activities.

Summer Volunteer program 2008 in Dongnai is a useful activity for each youth union member and it is really a good environment for them to train themselves and better themselves as well as devote themselves. Those activities can enhance voluntary spirit of the youth and contribute to make Bien Hoa city and Dongnai province develop strongly.

Vo Van Thuong, first secretary of the central Communist Youth Union said, “ 90 days and nights of the campaign will be an interesting summer course for the youth to train themselves and be closer to people and reality and It is also a practical activity of the youth with the aim of concretizing resolution of the 9^th National Youth Union Congress”.

Reported by Le Thuong, translated by Hoai Thu.