According to the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, the 2020 Summer Youth Volunteer programme will focus on fulfilling a number of goals such as repairing 2,000 km of rural roads and building an additional 500 km; building 200 coastal clean-up points; providing free medical examination and medicine distribution for 200,000 people across the country; and build 700 social houses, among others.
The Youth Union of Phan Thiet City has launched a programme entitled “Phan Thiet Youths: creative and volunteering for the community” with many practical activities, such as providing information dissemination on traffic safety, prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic at primary, secondary and high schools; raising awareness on plastic waste and environmental sanitation; and organising free swimming classes for disadvantaged children, etc.
On June 3, the Trade Union and Youth Union of the General Department of Taxation organised a voluntary blood donation programme with the participation of about 500 officials and employees of the General Department.
The Youth Union of Quynh Phu District, Thai Binh Province, has organised a festival entitled “Young physicians follow Uncle Ho’s teachings and volunteer for the community”.
At the festival, young physicians conducted liver cancer screening tests, nutrition advice, and health check-up formore than 120 local people.
Gifts worth VND200,000 and 10kg of rice each were also presented to needy families in the district on this occasion.