The women in Quyet Thang commune (Lac Son) have developed a model of growing chili into the OCOP product, contributing to increasing income for many local households.
Ms. Hoang Thi Duyen, the Chairwoman of the Provincial Women's Union, says: The Union has directed the grassroots unions throughout the province to attach the emulation targets and key work tasks of the union to the implementation of the criteria of the new rural areas. Each grassroots union has been directed to register a commitment to the work performed by the women in accordance with the actual situation at the facility. At the same time, we have launched the emulation movement, organizing seminars, and contests, directing communication in the community, and propagating information on activities on the website, page, social networking sites, Facebook, and Zalo about the construction program of the new rural areas. Thereby, the members have better understood the purpose, meaning, and content of the movement and they have actively been participating.
The implementation process shows that women's union has participated in all of the program's goals, but the highlight is the participation in implementing criteria 9 (residential housing), 10 (income), 11 (poor households), 12 (employed workers) out of the 19 criteria for building new rural communes. The unions at all levels have focused on implementing solutions to help women develop economy, creating jobs, and increasing income by providing the capital support, knowledge training, vocational training, and participating in the movement "Women help each other develop economy”.
Accordingly, every year, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Women's Union registers the content and implementation activities of the program with the Provincial Steering Committee; issuing the documents on implementing the program's contents. Specifically, in 2024, the Provincial Women's Union has directed the Women's Union of the districts and the city to implement the specific goals and targets such as helping 755 households with women escape poverty and near poverty (each union helps at least 5 households); 100% of grassroots unions mobilize and support 5 households to meet the criteria of "Sustainable Families of 5 No, 3 Clean” or "Families of 5 Yes, 3 Clean” (for the areas building advanced/model rural areas ); 100% of union establishments register and carry out a project, contributing to building new rural areas and civilized urban areas.
The Chairwoman of the Provincial Women's Union adds: The Women's Union continues to launch and implement the movements "Clean houses, beautiful gardens, clean environment, civilized neighborhoods” associated with the campaign "Building families of 5 no, 3 clean” and "Family of 5 yes, 3 clean”, the movement "Green, clean and beautiful Saturday” in the unions at all levels. Particularly, it is necessary to focus on the models "Model Hamlet, model family”, "Flowered Road”, "Green Fence”, "Self-destructive trash pit”, "Women limit the use of plastic bags, "Women save Money to buy health insurance for family health”, "Safe villages for women and children”...
In addition, the Union at all levels has focused on many activities to support the members in the poverty reduction, taking care of life, building happy families, protecting the environment, taking care of health, complying with the law, and protecting the environment, ensuring the social order and safety; developing good economic models, food safety and supporting women in starting businesses. The union’s activities have helped the women escape poverty sustainably, contributing to building new rural areas in the locality.
In the first quarter of 2024, the union at all levels organized 3 ceremonies to launch "Tree Planting Tet” with the spirit of "Every woman with a green tree”, "Each union facility with a green tree project” and planted over 14,400 trees of all kinds, over 3,000 woman members participated in the "Green - Clean - Beautiful Saturday” movement; Mobilizing 7 member households to contribute money and labor worth over 39 million VND to concretize and upgrade the village roads; building 12 new hygienic latrines; Replicating 6 women's flag roads; coordinating to organize 32 science and technology transfer and vocational training classes for nearly 1,100 woman and people; Awarding theindustrial sewing support equipment to 2 cooperative groups; continuing to maintain and encoorage the women to "Save to buy health insurance for family health”, "Help each other buy health insurance”, "Collecting scrap to buy health insurance”, and they have bought 1,016 new health insurance cards, established 19 new clubs with 348 members…
In addition, the union at all levels has given 5 loving shelters to 5 poor members and repaired 3 houses with an amount of over 185 million VND; visiting and giving gifts to the women, the orphans, the poor children, and the families under the preferential policy with 2,947 sets of gifts and cash, worth over 987 million VND; coordinating to give 7,796 sets of gifts with a total value of over 4 billion VND...