The event, held jointly by the VECCA, the Hanoi People’s Committee and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MoCST), will honour and promote the culture and traditions of Vietnamese families to build a modern and civilised society and realise the Prime Minister-approved Strategy for Vietnam Family Development (SVFD) until 2020 with a vision to 2030.
The festival will feature an exhibition of documents, photos, hoardings and posters introducing the Party and State’s care for the family, major contents of the SVFD, and calling people to build cultural lifestyles and fight against domestic violence in their families.
The exhibition conveys the message that families are places of the traditional cultural values of the country, in which the harmonic and close-knit relations among members is the kernel of the family’s sustainable development in modern life.
There will also be a number of seminars and exchanges focusing on upholding family culture, creating a healthy atmosphere for the family’s development to prevent the negative impacts of market mechanism on family backgrounds.
On the occasion, the Hanoi city Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism in co-ordination with the Women’s Union and the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union will host a seminar entitled ‘Youth’s role in the family during national industrialisation and modernisation’, a gathering to honour families with exemplary cultural lifestyles, and a contest promoting women’s role in creating prosperous and progressive families.
Other activities which will held are dedicated to the elderly, including a programme to encourage them to live in a happy, healthy and useful manner, a longevity celebration for war veterans who once fought on the Quang Tri battlefield and a lullaby-singing contest featuring elderly clubs from Hanoi, Hung Yen, Bac Ninh, Nam Dinh and Hai Duong province.
Children will also have the chance to join sporting events and folk games such as fishing, To He (toy figurine) making, skipping rope and tug-of-war.
The festival will be well-organised with full of activities for all family’s members to encourage them to make their houses a home, contributing to building a developed and happy community.
