Crossing the sprawling concrete roads, endless rice paddies, and lush green coffee plantations to the border commune of Ia Mơ, everyone knows about the village elder Ksor H'Blâm. She is a prominent female village elder in the Central Highlands, who has helped ethnic minority communities escape poverty and backwardness.
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Party member and village elder Ksor H'Blâm. |
In the house built as a gesture of gratitude by the 710th Economic-Defense Brigade, everything is neatly arranged and clean. Party member and village elder Ksor H'Blâm, though gray-haired and wrinkled, still has sharp eyesight. His legs, once used to carry wounded soldiers and ammunition, now suffer from recurring injuries that swell with changes in weather, but this cannot stop him from fulfilling his responsibility as a party member, going from house to house to spread awareness, encourage, and guide the people on the right principles in the Party and State's policies, and to build their will and determination to develop the economy and eradicate poverty.
In her youth, Ksor H'Blâm joined the revolution and became a soldier fighting against the French and the American invaders. After the country achieved peace and independence, she returned to her hometown. In early 1998, the villagers of Krông elected her as the village elder. Upon returning home, seeing the village still impoverished with dilapidated thatched houses, uneducated children following their parents to the fields, their skin tanned and hair bleached, and hunger and poverty persistently clinging to them, she was deeply troubled, thinking, "As a cadre and Party member, it would be a sin to let my people suffer from poverty." First, Ksor H'Blâm sought to understand the causes of poverty and backwardness in order to find ways to help. She believed that to gain the villagers' trust, she had to set an example. With this thought in mind, she worked day and night clearing vegetation, expanding her cultivated land, and selecting suitable crops, planting them in a mixed cropping system to sustain herself in the long term. At the same time, she proactively raised additional breeding cows, sows, chickens, ducks, etc.
Being healthy and hardworking, she raised many cows and owned many rice paddies. With a kind and compassionate heart, she immediately thought of lending cows to poor households in the village and guiding them on how to raise them. Thanks to this, the herd of cows owned by village elder Ksor H'Blâm and the villagers has now grown to hundreds of animals. Besides encouraging people in the border region to abandon the habit of cutting down forests and burning trees to clear land for upland rice cultivation, and instead focus on reclaiming land for wet rice cultivation and industrial crops such as coffee, rubber, and pepper, and developing the VAC (Garden-Pond-Livestock) model, Mrs. Ksor H'Blâm also provided many villagers with seedlings, livestock, loans, and cows to develop their economy.
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Village elder Ksor H'Blâm exchanges experiences on propaganda and mobilization of the people with officers of the 710 Economic-Defense Brigade (March 2026). |
Living up to the trust of her fellow villagers, village elder Ksor H'Blâm always sets a good example and takes the lead in everything. She is always willing to help people in times of difficulty. If a family in the village has a sick child and lacks money for hospital expenses, she immediately lends them money. She also lends money to households to buy supplies and fertilizers for production and farming. In the village, if any conflicts or disunity arise, she steps in to mediate and resolve them.
Not only does he help people develop their household economies, village elder Ksor H'Blâm also acts as a bridge for local authorities to disseminate and popularize laws within the community. He collaborates with the Ia Mơ Border Guard Post ( Gia Lai Provincial Border Guard) to promote unity among border residents in developing their family economies, contributing to the construction of new rural areas, and maintaining security, order, and social safety. To help people in the villages find employment, Elder Ksor H'Blâm has worked with local departments and agencies to encourage people of working age to register as rubber plantation workers at local businesses.
Given the reality that Ia Mơ is a border commune with a large number of people from other areas temporarily residing, trading, and doing business there, making the situation quite complex, village elder Ksor H'Blâm actively propagates and mobilizes people to participate in economic development, maintain social security and order, and eliminate outdated customs.
According to village elder Ksor H'Blâm, for propaganda work to be highly effective, close coordination with the Army and Police forces is necessary. It is thanks to this coordination that the management and protection of national territorial sovereignty and border security have always been maintained.
Speaking about village elder Ksor H'Blâm, Comrade Truong Cong Tan, Secretary of the Party Committee of Ia Mo commune, affirmed: “Ms. Ksor H'Blâm is an exemplary Party member, a typical and respected female village elder, highly regarded by the villagers. During the war, Ksor H'Blâm sacrificed her youth for the revolution. In peacetime, elder Ksor H'Blâm is a leading example in mobilizing and assisting the people to develop the economy, eliminate backward customs, and bring a prosperous and happy life to the people in the border region of Ia Mo.”
For his dedication to his village and community, village elder Ksor H'Blâm has received numerous commendations from the Gia Lai Provincial People's Committee, the Border Guard Command, and the 15th Army Corps.
Source: https://www.qdnd.vn/xa-hoi/dan-toc-ton-giao/cac-van-de/dang-vien-gia-lang-mang-no-am-ve-buon-lang-1040700
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