(HBO) – "Excellent at work and perfect at home”, was the praise that Bui Thi Hien, President of the Vietnam Women’s Union in Du Sang commune, Kim Boi district gave to Bui Thi Huyen, head of the women’s union in Suoi Chuon village. With her enthusiasm and tireless efforts, Huyen has overcome obstacles in culture, customs and language to reach members of the union, who mostly are Dao ethnics.
Bui Thi Huyen (right) examines
quality of her family’s squash garden before harvest.
Huyen is a Muong ethnic, while the members in the village’s women’s
union are mostly Dao women. Therefore, the differences in languages and customs
worried her at the beginning.
"It would not be good if the head of a women’s union branch could
not understand the members’ words and thoughts”, was the concern that occupied
Huyen’s mind for a while.
With determination, now she can converse with Dao people. When she
assumed the leading position of the women’s union in the village, it had about
50 members. Now it has 90 members.
In 2012, two couples in the village had the third child. And as of
2018, the village recorded no cases of child marriage or birth of the third
baby.
Huyen and other members of the women’s union set up a money saving
group, with each member putting in between 50,000 and 100,000 VND a month.
Accordingly, the group save from 3-3.5 million VND a month, which they use to help
members in disadvantaged conditions or lend without interest to members to bolster
household economy.
She and the members also planted 7,000 acacia trees to raise money
for the union’s operation fund.
While fully attending to the branch’s activities, Huyen is also a
role model in doing business. like other couples in the village, she and her
husband faced many obstacles when they were newly married. Not succumbing to
poverty, the couple borrowed money and learned from experiences of others about
cultivation techniques for orange, pomelo, squash and husbandry.
To date, her family has 200 pomelo and 300 orange trees and 5,000
sq. m of squash, as well as 3ha of acacia trees. The family also has more than
80 pigs and hundreds of chickens. Additionally, Huyen opened her bakery shop
just recently./.
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A total public investment capital of 113 billion VND (over 4.3 million USD) was disbursed for a project to upgrade infrastructure and stabilise residents in the vicinity of the Da River reservoir between 2021 and the first quarter of 2025, giving a facelift to local rural areas and improving the quality of people's life.
Since the end of 2023-2024 academic year, Cu Yen Primary and Secondary School in Luong Son district has deployed e-study records for all of its 500 primary students, said the school principal Nguyen Thi Tuyen.
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