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HCM City: Youths to involve in Earth Hour 2021 activities, projects

Youth volunteers will be involved in a host of activities and projects to raise public awareness of environment protection and promote the efficient use of power in response to this year’s Earth Hour in Ho Chi Minh City.
HCM City: Youths to involve in Earth Hour 2021 activities, projects ảnh 1The 2021 Earth Hour campaign is launched in Ho Chi Minh City on March 13. (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Youth volunteers will be involvedin a host of activities and projects to raise public awareness of environmentprotection and promote the efficient use of power in response to this year’sEarth Hour in Ho Chi Minh City.

The 2021 campaign will focus on encouraging the participationof members of the municipal Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) and youngpeople in mobilising the local community to together expand green spaces,reduce plastic waste and cut greenhouse gas emission, Le Hoang Minh fromthe city’s HCYU, who is head of the organsing board of the city's this year Earth Hour, said at the Earth Hour launch ceremony on March 13.

This will help ease impacts of climate change and pollutionand make HCM City a clean, green and liveable city, he said.

All district HCYU chapters will engage in various projects,Minh said, adding that there will be a project to raise awareness among localstudents and instruct them how to use electricity safely and efficiently whileanother will help repair and renovate power systems for poor households andpolicy beneficiaries at high-risk residential areas and encourage them to useenergy-efficient and environmentally-friendly devices.

The district chapters will also take part in projects to improvesafety of power transmission line networks and replace lighting systems inlocal condo buildings, and to call on people to use green and recycled products.

A bicycle parade and one-hour lights off event will be heldin the city during the Earth Hour 2021 on March 27./.
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