Mrs. Pham Thi Tam's spacious and solid house was built in accordance with Directive No. 22-CT/TU. Photo: HT
Leisurely inviting guests to have afternoon tea in a sturdy house built according to Directive No. 22-CT/TU, Mr. Vu Dinh Dai (62 years old) confided about the difficult and arduous days he had passed and his plans for the future.
Mr. Dai confided: “If we were to compare, my life before was no different from Chi Dau’s, even the house was dilapidated, not really a house.” When asked, we learned that this man with a haggard appearance had struggled for 12 years with his wife, struggling to survive on dialysis. However, fate still teased him. His meager income from year-round farming or doing whatever he was hired to do was not only a support for his wife, but also a source of livelihood for his two grandchildren. Who wouldn’t want to be relied on when they were old, but he and his wife did not enjoy that blessing, on the contrary, they had more worries. Just like that, the couple and their two young grandchildren tiredly and heavily went through their days living in a makeshift house. Mr. Dai said: “Whenever it rained heavily, everything leaked and was soaked. Many stormy nights, I couldn’t sleep, worrying that the house would collapse.”
Then he hugged his two grandchildren tightly and said emotionally: “I have a new house, ma’am! I never dared to dream of it in my whole life.” Looking at the man in front of them, everyone was moved and moved to tears.
Mr. Dai's new house has an area of over 60 square meters with a total construction cost of over 150 million VND. Of which, Mr. Dai received 80 million VND in support according to the spirit of Directive No. 22-CT/TU. The rest, relatives and neighbors enthusiastically contributed labor and money. Mr. Dai confided: "I can only say thank you to the Party, the State, relatives and neighbors for helping me achieve something so great, beyond my imagination."
What is even more special is that after many years of “living alone” because his wife died, Mr. Dai has a woman who loves him and sympathizes with his situation and moves in to live with him. The two come together with nothing but flaws in their souls, but this house will be the support and motivation for them to constantly strive, work hard, and build a better life.
Compared to the time before receiving support to build a new house, Mr. Dai's life has changed a lot, reducing some of the difficulties. In the house, there are more items to serve daily life. Mr. Dai no longer drowns his sorrows in the fumes of alcohol but works hard; his voice and laughter are more lively. Ms. Nguyen Thi Nhung (58 years old) shared: "Since deciding to live together, we often encourage each other to live positively, work hard, and one day we will be better off."
Now, Mr. Dai and Mrs. Nhung have a great asset, a house built with the care of the Party, the State, and the kindness of relatives and neighbors. "Men build houses, women build homes", I am a person who has come here from a foreign land, he gave me a home, I will try to give back a home" - a sincere affirmation, pouring out from the heart of a woman who has found happiness in her old age.
As for Mrs. Pham Thi Tam, it is only at the age of “thất thập cổ lai” that she can enjoy the joy of living in a spacious, solid house. She used to join the youth volunteer force, her husband stays at home doing farming, the family’s circumstances are full of hardship. The couple lives in a dilapidated level 4 house, built in the year 2000.
Mrs. Tam said: “My husband and I always look to each other to live, even though there are difficulties and material shortages, we are in harmony and work together to overcome them.” But the biggest sadness that the couple cannot overcome is the inability to have children. “No matter how much love a couple has, if they don’t have children, it’s like a flower without color or fragrance,” Mrs. Tam confided.
No one knows how many nights Mrs. Tam spent thinking, tormenting, and how many tears she shed when thinking about her fate. How much generosity, forgiveness, and sacrifice that woman had to make to come to the most important and greatest decision of her life. She proactively proposed to break up so that her husband could find a new wife. At the age of 30, Mrs. Tam personally brought a box of betel leaves to ask for a wife for her husband of many years. No one asked her what she thought in that situation, but anyone who heard the story could feel the sadness that the little woman buried deep in her heart.
Ms. Tam's husband married his current wife and had 3 children together. Ms. Tam followed her husband's happiness and took it as her joy. And perhaps, it was Ms. Tam's heart that made her husband and his future wife admire and respect her. From the time Ms. Tam started building the house, even though her conditions were not abundant, he also supported her materially, occasionally came over, and helped with anything. Ms. Tam's house has an area of about 42 square meters, started in June 2024, and was completed after more than 1 month of construction. On the inauguration day of the new house, she prepared several trays of thanks, and her husband also brought his wife to join in the celebration. She still lives alone but is not lonely, the present spacious house will always be a witness to her fairy tale-like story in everyday life.
The widespread influence of Directive No. 22-CT/TU has created profound humane values. Perhaps, those values have spread, touched the hearts of each person, aroused the "fellow countrymen's sentiment" that is both close, familiar, and great and noble. The stories in Dong Tien commune are just a few of the many "fairy tales" that are and will continue to be told in Thanh land.
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Source: https://baothanhhoa.vn/co-tich-giua-doi-thuong-255245.htm
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