(HBO) – Since 2016, the Women’s Union in Lac Thuy district has organised public-awareness-raising sessions on various topics, from women’s involvement in production value chain and distribution of safe products to health insurance for communal health. The sessions also discussed issues related to population, environmental protection, and building cultural life at residential areas. They have drawn the participation of thousands of members of the union.


A communications session on new-style rural area building held in Lien Hoa commune.  

 The union also mobilised local support to build two rural roads in Lien Hong 2 village of Khoan Du commune, and in Soc Bai village of Yen Bong commune, whose total cost exceeded 195 million VND.

 Particularly, in Phu Thanh commune, which is aiming to earn recognition as a new-style rural area in 2018, the union launched a campaign of building new-style rural villages and exemplary families in line with environmental protection. In the campaign, 11 villages and 20 families in Soi village signed a commitment pact to participate in the campaign. Local women’s unions assisted the installation of lights along 4km of roads at a total cost of more than 30 million VND. The unions have also organized groups of women to keep the local roads clean by regularly sweeping the roads, placing 25 garbage bins in public places. The women also dug 80 garbage holes at home, planted trees and flowers along 8.8km of roads and constructed 1,000 standard latrines. The union has mobilised its members to donate 8,800 m2 of land, nearly 692 million VND, and 5,610 working days to build rural roads, school yards, irrigation canals and communal houses, contributing to local efforts to meet standards of a new-style rural area.

 

As part of its campaign on encouraging women to help one another make a living and reduce poverty, the union’s chapters at different levels have continued to persuade women to join collectives. The union has established one new collective, eight cooperative groups, and eight production chains in animal husbandry and farming, including production value chains across eight communes that grow safe vegetables, chilies, and pumpkins, with total plantation amounting to 12.5 hectares. The union provided guidance for the cooperative groups to sign contracts with the Northern Green JSC to ensure the sale of their products. The cooperation model now generates between 7 and 8 million VND of production value per 360m2. In 2018, nine communes and towns have joined a production chain to grow high quality Bac Huong 9 aromatic rice on 100 hectares. Currently, the district’s women’s union is collaborating with the local Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to organise nine training sessions for 685 local farmers on rice cultivation techniques./.

 

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