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.
Promoting and upholding the role of the great national solidarity bloc, the Fatherland Front Committee of Kim Boi district in Hoa Binh province has been connecting with organisations and individuals to call for people's contributions to the "For the Poor" fund. With the fund, the committee has supported disadvantaged families in the locality to build and repair houses. The assistance helps poor people settle down, gradually stabilise their lives, and get out of poverty.
Promoting the role of gathering the great solidarity of the entire people, the Fatherland Front of Kim Boi district has connected with organizations and individuals to mobilize the people to contribute and build the fund "For the Poor”. From the fund, they have supported the new construction, upgrading, and repairing the houses, the spacious and warm houses, creating conditions to help the poor people settle down, gradually stabilize their lives and escape poverty.
In recent years, the patriotic emulation movement has been deployed more and more widely by all the levels and branches in Cao Phong district, attracting the participation of a large number of officials and people. From the patriotic emulation movement, many typical groups and individuals have appeared. Thereby, it has created the motivation to contribute to the successful implementation of the goals and tasks of the local socio-economic development.
Companies and factories across Hoa Binh have conducted various activities to care for trade union members and labourers in the locality during the Workers’ Month in May, encouraging them to work harder and contributing to bringing resolutions of the resolutions of trade union congresses at all levels into life.
After three years of implementation, the Japanese-funded project "Reducing Income- and Health-related Vulnerability of Older Persons” (Project VIE071 ) has shown efficiency in Hoa Binh province, one of its six target localities. Thirty inter-generational self-help clubs (ISHC) were established under the project, helping local elderly well adapt to an aging society.
Thanks to the spirit of land donation for the community, the road connecting two residential clusters in Doan Ket 1 hamlet, Quang Tien Commune (Hoa Binh city), has been concreted and widened, facilitating economic and social development and new-style rural building.
In recent years, the preferential loans from the Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) have been contributing to creating jobs for many employees in the province. This source of capital has helped many households invest in economic restructuring, increasing income, and reducing the sustainable poverty.
In the morning of May 9th, the Provincial Women's Union held a conference to summarize the Project "Empowering women’s rights through the access to the Law on Cyber Security, Marriage and Family Law”.
Ms. Bui Thi Dinh, the President of the Women's Union of Dinh Cu commune (Lac Son) says: Dinh Cu is a particularly difficult commune of the district, Muong ethnic group accounts for 90%. When being selected to participate in the project "Empowering women’s right through the access to the Law on Cyber Security and Law on Marriage and Family”, especially establishing the model "Equality in marriage” in Muong Chong hamlet with the participation of 30 members, along with propaganda and dissemination work on gender, the Law on Marriage and Family, and the Law on Prevention and Control of Domestic Violence has helped raise the awareness and qualifications for the officials and women members.
The club model "Women integrating in the online environment" is one of the two basic models of a project on empowering women through access to the Law on Cyber Security, and the Marriage and Family Law, sponsored by the Justice Initiatives Facilitation Fund (JIFF) - EU Justice and Legal Empowerment Programme (EU JULE).
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