In Ia Puch commune, there are 4 villages and 16 areas where workers of companies and enterprises grow and take care of rubber trees live. The whole commune has 1,078 households/4,397 people, with 10 ethnic groups living together including: Gia Rai, Kinh, Muong, Tay, Nung, Mong, Thai, E De...

Over the years, with many different forms and methods, Ia Puch Border Guard Station has effectively implemented mass mobilization work, truly becoming a bridge between the Party's will and the people's hearts; helping people to constantly raise their awareness and consciousness of strictly following the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws. Thereby, contributing to the management and firm protection of territorial sovereignty , national border security, and building a comprehensively strong border area.

Officers and soldiers of Ia Puch Border Guard Station help people harvest the season.

Major Phan Cong Thang, Party Secretary and Political Commissar of Ia Puch Border Guard Station, said: “Every year, the unit has proactively advised and coordinated with the Party Committee, government and mass organizations of Ia Puch commune to promote propaganda, dissemination and legal education, mobilizing people to comply with the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws, border regulations and local regulations. At the same time, we coordinate to develop plans, organize forces to build infrastructure, select specific and suitable contents, locations and families to help people develop the economy, contributing to strengthening the solidarity between the army and the people in the stationed area”.

To effectively carry out mass mobilization work in the area where the unit is stationed, the Party Committee and the Command of the station have assigned 4 party members to participate in party cell activities in 4 villages and hamlets, assigned 21 cadres to be in charge of 111 households, and regularly cared for and helped both materially and spiritually the households in difficult circumstances in the area to escape poverty in a sustainable way.

In order to continuously raise people's awareness of border security sovereignty, rights and obligations of citizens in border areas, officers and soldiers of Ia Puch Border Guard Station have synchronously implemented many different forms and methods to organize propaganda and mobilize the masses with easy-to-understand, easy-to-remember and easy-to-implement contents. In just the first 6 months of 2023, the unit independently and in coordination with departments and organizations of the commune organized propaganda and mobilization in 21 sessions/3,101 people. The propaganda content mainly focused on: Vietnam Border Guard Law; Law on Drug Prevention and Control; Law on Religious Beliefs; Law on Prevention and Control of Human Trafficking; Law on Marriage and Family; Law on Forest Protection and Development...; effectively implementing specific and practical programs and models such as: Program "Helping children go to school - adopted children of Border Guard Station"...

Lieutenant Colonel Hoang Van Hop, Deputy Head of the Mass Mobilization Team, teaches Ro Lan Hy, the adopted child of the border guard station, to study .

Mr. Ro Mah Chat, Brang village, Ia Puch commune shared: “Thanks to the help of the Border Guard of Ia Puch station, our people's lives have changed a lot, improved, and we are no longer hungry or cold. Thank you very much, Border Guard.”

With the slogan: "The station is home, the border is the homeland, the people of all ethnic groups are blood brothers" and with the motto "3 sticking, 4 together", officers and soldiers of Ia Puch Border Guard Station, in addition to their professional duties, actively participate in helping people develop production, care for building cultural and spiritual life, ensuring social security; actively respond to the movement "Repaying gratitude", eliminating hunger and reducing poverty; helping localities and people implement the new rural construction program, preserving cultural values ​​associated with border protection launched by superiors and many specific activities such as: Building inter-village roads, digging, dredging canals, repairing schools, helping policy families and single-parent families; Eliminate temporary houses, implement the program "helping children go to school", donate breeding cows to help the poor in border areas, treat people's illnesses and organize cultural, artistic and sports exchange activities, contributing to improving the material and spiritual life of local people.

Ms. Ro Lan H'Hanh, Chairwoman of the Fatherland Front Committee of Ia Puch commune, said: "Every year, officers and soldiers of the Border Guard Station go to the villages and hamlets to visit the people, helping our people with many tasks such as: providing technical guidance on converting crop and livestock structures, organizing medical examinations, providing free medicine to the people, harvesting crops... We are very grateful to the Border Guard soldiers."

Officers and soldiers of Ia Puch Border Guard Station help people of Chu Ko village, Ia Puch commune grow wet rice.

Talking to us, Colonel Nguyen Van Nghi, Deputy Commissar of the Gia Lai Provincial Border Guard Command said: "Recently, the Party Committee and Command of Ia Puch Border Guard Station have really paid attention to mass mobilization work. The unit has had many good models and creative ways of doing things that have brought about practical results, which have been recognized and highly appreciated by the local Party, government and people."

The mass mobilization work of Ia Puch Border Guard Station in recent times has actively contributed to improving the living standards and level of understanding and awareness of law compliance for local people, truly becoming a bridge between the Party and the people, creating consensus between the Party Committee, the government and the people in closely coordinating with the Border Guard to ensure security and order in the area, participating in the management and firmly protecting the country's borders; contributing to building a peaceful, friendly, cooperative and developing border area.

Article and photos: NGUYEN HUU QUYET