“Carrying” materials up the mountain, destroying temporary houses in Cao Minh

Militia forces used motorbikes to carry bricks up the mountain to help build new houses for people in Phia Bay village.

Amidst the difficulties, the journey to eliminate temporary housing is not only about policy, but also about stories of humanity, sharing, and especially the determination of the entire local political system.

The road to Cao Minh commune, Thai Nguyen province is winding, following the mountain slopes. The terrain here is rugged, the weather and climate are harsh, the awareness level of the people is uneven, customs and cultivation are limited, the poverty rate is high, especially for the H'Mong and Dao people...

That makes a solid house a distant dream for the people. The motorbike carried us up the steep slopes along the mountainside. In Cao Minh, households in the high mountains who want to build a house not only have to worry about money to buy materials, pay workers, but also spend a lot of money on transportation of materials, so many households cannot afford to build their own houses.

To implement the temporary house removal campaign this time, the commune directed and determined to mobilize cadres, civil servants, and workers, to utilize motorbikes and agricultural tractors in usable sections. In places where vehicles cannot be used, human power, carrying, and carrying, etc. must be used. Mr. Hoang Van Dau, Khuoi Tra village said: "Materials must be transported by car to places where motorbikes cannot be used.

Some households only have to carry a few dozen meters to reach their home, but others have to carry several kilometers of dirt roads halfway up the slope. On rainy days, the dirt roads are slippery, and there are sections where several people have to push and pull to get up the slope... With such hardships, many households who transport materials themselves do not have enough strength to build a house.

During the peak days of late August, on the way to the villages of Ban Nghe, Lung Nghe, Lung Phac, Phia Bay..., officers, soldiers of the armed forces, young volunteers and local people carried and carried materials, walking step by step on the steep road. With each step under the jagged rocks and mud, everyone was drenched in sweat.

At the construction site for a house for a group of four households in Ban Nghe, Lam Van Dien, the Standing Deputy Secretary of the Commune Party Committee, was sweating profusely. He said: Ban Nghe is a village of the H'Mong ethnic group, with many households having their temporary houses demolished at the same time. Because it is located on a high mountainside, local organizations had to spend a lot of time and effort to help the family from dismantling the old house, transporting construction materials to building the house.

It can be said that the effort to complete a house in Cao Minh is three or four times more than in the lowlands. The weather is sometimes scorchingly hot, sometimes suddenly pouring rain. Pulling the hem of his shirt to wipe away sweat, comrade Lam Van Dien encouraged his comrades: "The people in the highlands still face many difficulties, we must try to overcome them, support them to help them change their lives soon."

Holding her small child in her arms, sitting and watching the house gradually being completed, Ms. Duong Thi Sai, H'Mong ethnic group, Ban Nghe village, was moved: My family is a poor household, the old house was also supported by the State, but it was broken and leaked after many years. Now that we have received support, the house is bigger and more beautiful, I am touched when I see cadres, militia, and police carrying each brick and sheet of corrugated iron over the mountain to build the house.

Without the State's financial and labor support, the family would never have been able to build a solid house like this... Preparing to move into a newly built house that is both spacious and beautiful, Ms. Thao A Cha, a H'Mong ethnic in Na Ma village, happily said: "For many years, my family had to live in a temporary house, I never dared to think that today I would have a house with solid brick walls. Without the support of the government and the villagers, how could my family build a house.

I still feel like it's a dream." Cao Minh commune was established on the basis of merging the communes: Cong Bang, Co Linh and Cao Tan of Pac Nam district, Bac Kan province (old). The total population is more than 12,800 people, including Dao, H'Mong, Nung, Tay ethnic groups... living in 33 villages. After checking, the whole commune still has more than 1,700 poor and near-poor households. The total number of temporary and dilapidated houses that need to be rebuilt is 443, three houses need to be repaired, of which, H'Mong households account for 353 houses, Dao households account for 69 houses, the rest are Tay and San Chi. Recognizing the characteristics of the locality, starting to implement, the Party Committee and the commune government met to discuss and unify the way of doing things, the whole political system quickly and strongly activated.

The groups were divided, overcoming difficult roads to spread out to all the villages to get to the site, grasp each situation, and determine appropriate tasks when starting construction. The Commune Steering Committee resolutely directed the participating forces to review and make a list of households subject to temporary house removal; at the same time, immediately established 18 support teams to assign specific tasks to each team and each member to closely monitor each household and group of households, the construction progress; directed the commune's associations, unions, military, police, villages... to organize and help households with working days to dismantle and transport construction materials...

The whole commune directly participated in hundreds of working days, with hundreds of cadres, police, and military officers participating; mobilized local forces in the village for more than 300 working days with more than 1,500 people participating in helping. The power of humanity, dangerous slopes, and steep roads could not stop the footsteps of people full of love on the journey to build a warm home with all their hearts.

Thanks to the joint efforts of the entire political system and the people, solid and spacious houses have gradually sprung up in the mountains and forests. The happy eyes of the elderly, the shy smiles, and the clear eyes of children living in new houses have given more motivation to those working to eliminate temporary houses in this remote highland area. Cao Minh has eliminated all temporary and dilapidated houses, exceeding the assigned time frame.

The story of removing temporary houses for the people in the highlands of Cao Minh commune in particular and the highlands of Thai Nguyen in general is not simply about building new houses, but also about building trust, lighting the flame of hope to change the lives of the poor highlanders. That spirit is the solution to the problem of building new houses in the highlands, so that Thai Nguyen is one of the first provinces to complete the removal of temporary and dilapidated houses before the deadline assigned by the Prime Minister.

Article and photos: TUAN SON and TUNG VAN

Source: https://nhandan.vn/cong-vat-lieu-len-nui-xoa-nha-tam-o-cao-minh-post906242.html