Youth Month receives warm response across country

Youth organisations in cities and provinces across the country have launched various campaigns in response to the Month of Young People and the 2018 Traffic Safety Year.
Youth Month receives warm response across country ảnh 1Illustrative image. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA)
– Youthorganisations in cities and provinces across the country have launched variouscampaigns in response to the Month of Young People and the 2018 Traffic SafetyYear.

In the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho,the municipal committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCM CYU) willhold communication activities on the union’s traditions and history in diverseforms such as dialogues, forums and study trips to cultural and historicalsites both in and outside the locality.

The committee will support youngpeople’s engagement in the startup movement in rural areas through the provisionof training on farming techniques and supply of plant and animal varieties.

The union will assist with the newrural area building campaign by mobilizing funding of businesses for of ruralroad construction and charity activities while encouraging union members toimplement their own projects.

The municipal youth union willcoordinate with the city’s electricity company to hold forestation campaigns andactivities promoting the economical use of energy and environmental protection.

The Ho Chi Minh Communist YouthUnion (HCM CYU) chapter in the northern province of Ninh Binh launched the YouthMonth at a ceremony on February 26, with delegates and youth union membersengaging in planting trees, teaching traffic rules to students at severalschools in Kim Son district and inaugurating a lighting system for Chat Binhcommune.

Young people in the central provinceof Binh Dinh also joined in a tree planting festival at the Nui Cheo historicalsite in Hoai An district in responding to the Youth Month.

Thousands of others set out toclean up the environment, donate blood, and carry out other projects after theceremony.

The Youth Month was launchedwith the aim to enhance the sense of responsibility of young people andstimulate their potential and innovation in local socio-economic development aswell as their voluntary spirit for community’s interest.-VNA
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