Family is the home of each person and the cell of a society. It also plays a significant role in the formation and development of each person’s personality. On May 4, 2001, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 72/2001/QD-TTg, designating June 28 as the Vietnamese Family Day. Over the past years, Hoa Binh province has carried out a number of activities to honour the family traditions and help develop prosperous, progressive, equal, happy "cells of society”.
During the two days of June 27th - 28th, 38 "Supporting the exam season” teams with nearly 1,700 volunteers were present at 38 exam sites in the province to support more than 9,800 candidates taking the exam at the High School Graduation Exam in 2024.
On June 28th, the candidates in Hoa Binh province at 38 testing sites entered the second as well as the final testing day of the 2024 High School Graduation Exam.
Together with the more than 1 million students across the country, more than 9,800 students in Hoa Binh entered the first day of the 2024 high school graduation exam in the morning of June 27. They took the literature exam in the morning and maths in the afternoon.
Over the past years, authorities of all levels, sectors and localities of Hoa Binh province have always paid attention to the protection, care and education of children in special and difficult circumstances, and those in disadvantaged and ethnic minority areas.
The Women’s Union of Cao Phong district has carried out many practical activities under the project "implementing gender equality and solving urgent problems of women and children” under the national target programme for socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas for 2021-2030. The first phase of the project is rolled out in Cao Phong dictrict in 2021-2025 period.
Lac Son district has paid due attention to ensuring social welfare for people who rendered service to the nation and social protection beneficiaries.
With the spirit of youth volunteering for the community, the 2024 Campaign of Summer Volunteer Youth is taking place vibrantly with the practical and meaningful projects and tasks, attracting the participation of a large number of union members and young people in the province. The campaign has been actively contributing to the socio-economic development, building the new rural areas and civilized cities, ensuring the social security, and spreading good values in the community.
The Department of Education and Training of Hoa Binh province hosted a seminar on June 13 to evaluate activities supported by ChildFund in Vietnam and review the innovation of preschool and primary education in the locality in 2023-2024.
In recent years, the emulation movement "Women join hands to build new rural areas” has attracted the officials and women members in the province to participate in many good practices and meaningful activities. The movement has contributed to changing the face of the rural areas, contributing positively to local socio-economic development.
Summer vacation is an opportunity for children to have fun and participate in relaxing and entertaining activities. The library is one of the places many parents choose to take their children to every summer vacation. Grasping that need, in recent times, the Provincial Library has innovated its operating methods, improving the quality of serving the young readers, contributing to forming and nurturing the reading habit for children.
The entrance examination for public high schools has concluded in the province, with the majority of candidates observing that the exam papers closely followed the secondary school curriculum but varied in difficulty level.
Various emulation movements have been rolled out in Mai Chau district of Hoa Binh province over the past years, encouraging local farmers to promote business and production for sustainable poverty alleviation as well as restructuring of crops and livestock for better incomes. The movements have attracted enthusiastic response from members of the district farmers’ union, particularly ethnic people.
Senior women in rural and ethnic minority areas are considered an abundant labour workforce, as people in the working age have often worked far away from home in recent years. Therefore, many units, departments, sectors and cooperatives in Hoa Binh have worked with enterprises inside and outside the province to generate jobs for the local women.
The northern province of Hoa Binh has over 74% of its population belonging to ethnic minority groups, who mainly reside in remote, far-flung, and disadvantaged areas. Therefore, the implementation of Project 2 on planning, arranging, and settling residential areas under the National Target Programme for Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas is important in building a better living environment for locals.
The World Environment Day (June 5), launched by the UN Environment Programme, has been celebrated in Vietnam since 1982 and become a nationwide movement, helping raise public awareness of environmental protection, biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, and climate change response. This year, the day is themed "Land restoration, desertification and drought resilience”. All-level Party Committees and administrations in Hoa Binh province continue to view improving awareness, restoring land, and fighting drought and desertification as an indispensable part of the socio-economic development plan and an important task during the sustainable development process.
A working delegation from the Ministry of Health led by Deputy Minister Do Xuan Tuyen inspected the provision of vitamin A for children in Cao Phong district on June 1.
Right on the occasion of the 134th anniversary of Uncle Ho's birthday (May 19th, 1890 - May 19th, 2024), the Public Security of Lac Son District organized a donation of breeding cows to the two families in extremely difficult circumstances: Mr. Bui Van Quyet's household from Trang Doi hamlet, Yen Phu commune; Mrs. Bui Thi Dien's household from Com street, Vu Ban town.
In the morning of May 29th, at the Cultural House of Lac Son district, the Provincial Youth Communist Union - Vietnam Youth Union of the province held the launching ceremony of the Volunteering Youth Campaign in the summer of 2024, responding to the peak day of the new rural construction. There was the attendance of Mr. Bui Van Luyen, the Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front.
The competition to build green, safe and effective kindergartens, and safe, creative and effective school and classroom spaces at the elementary level in the 2023 - 2024 academic year achieved outstanding results, thereby contributing to creating a truly meaningful educational environment.
Muong Chieng commune (Da Bac district) has eight hamlets and 946 households with 4,070 people. Over the past time, local authorities have paid due attention to poverty reduction work, invested in infrastructure and developed production, thus increasing income and gradually improving the lives of local residents.
The "cow bank” programme, implemented by the Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) since 2010, has benefited many disadvantaged families in Tan Lac district through the provision of breeding cows. Performed by the district Red Cross, the model has provided hundreds of breeding cows to impoverished and disadvantaged individuals, helping them improve their economic conditions and establish sustainable livelihoods, thus uplifting themselves out of poverty.
The Vietnam Women Union Central Committee and the UNICEF Vietnam on May 28 organised a programme in response to World Menstrual Hygiene Day 2024. The online programme was connected to more than 300 sites in the country's 63 cities and provinces.
Donating land is not an easy decision for any family or individual, especially for farmers who consider land as an extremely important and valuable asset. However, many locals in Mai Chau district have voluntarily given their land to the State for security-defence reinforcement in the locality, serving the common interest of the whole society.
Hoa Binh province has been allocated with sufficient vaccines for the local expanded vaccination programme after the supply of the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) and 5-in-1 one was disrupted from November 2023 to the beginning of this year.
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