“Listen to Me”: Message from the Heart

08:43, October 8, 2023

Through their innocent, cute and genuine expressions through pictures and video clips sent to the contest "Listen to your children talk" launched by the Central Committee of the Vietnam Women's Union, many children in the province expressed their thoughts and aspirations about issues in life, especially about a happy, safe and equal family.

Send a message in each work

Born into a family of two brothers in Ea Kueh commune (Cu M'gar district), every day, Y Kien Rcam (12 years old) witnesses his mother working, busy in the kitchen, and his father after work often gathering to drink with friends. Y Kien's wish is for everyone to spend time sharing and gathering together. That is expressed through the work "Happy Family" with the image of a happy family in the middle, surrounded by descriptions of actions and behaviors that should not exist in family life. According to Y Kien, a happy family is a family without alcohol, beer, violence against children, no gender discrimination, not too focused on the phone, parents listening, understanding, and sharing with their children. His painting hopes to convey the message of maintaining a happy family.

Le Thi Quyen (Quang Hiep commune, Cu M'gar district) realized that there is still a situation of male chauvinism, domestic violence... That can even cause painful casualties. Quyen drew a picture with the content "Join hands to fight domestic violence", she hopes that everyone will join hands to protect and help women in such situations so that they can escape injustice and violence.

Y Kien Rcam's painting shows his wish for a happy family.

Being a disabled child herself, To Thi Duyen (Cu Prong commune, Ea Kar district) and her friends brought to the contest a video clip of more than 7 minutes long about the life and dreams of a disabled child. The story recreated in it is also Duyen's own story. She was born into a farming family of four siblings, a family with extremely difficult circumstances. Since birth, Duyen and her two sisters have had hearing and speech disabilities. In 2020, a traffic accident took away her mother. Those disadvantages and losses made Duyen become self-conscious and difficult to integrate into the community. Through the story in the video clip, Duyen wishes to have a complete and whole family; to be a normal person like everyone else...

Create a ripple effect in the community

"Listen to your children" is a contest launched by the Central Committee of the Vietnam Women's Union from May 2023. This is an activity within the framework of Project 8 "Implementing gender equality and solving urgent issues for women and children" under the National Target Program on Socio -Economic Development in Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas, Phase I (2021 - 2025).

With the theme "Happy Family", the contest aims to raise awareness, promote the role and participation of children, especially girls, in communication activities to raise awareness of gender equality, contributing to building a safe environment for children to be protected, cared for, and develop comprehensively in the family environment. Through the contest, issues arising from gender equality in the family are discovered, on that basis, helping the Women's Union at all levels and related sectors to design content, communication activities,education , advocacy, and awareness raising in accordance with reality.

Le Thi Quyen's painting with the content of joining hands to fight against domestic violence.

In Dak Lak, the contest was widely deployed by the Provincial Women's Union to 15 districts, towns and cities. In Cu M'gar district, the District Women's Union coordinated with the Cu M'gar District Youth Union to launch, propagate, mobilize and guide children to participate in the contest. Thereby, it received enthusiastic responses from children in the area with 245 paintings and 4 video clips participating in the contest. In Ea Kar district, the District Women's Union launched a district-level contest to 16/16 communes and towns in the area. The District Women's Union selected 10 outstanding paintings and 1 video clip to send to the Provincial Women's Union, and at the same time awarded prizes to outstanding works in the district-level contest.

Vice President of the Provincial Women's Union Nguyen Thi Thu assessed that the works participating in the contest were well-invested, had rich content, and expressed the voices, thoughts and aspirations of children, especially in remote areas, regarding family issues and inequality. Through the works, vivid pictures of life related to issues that children care about were portrayed. After the launching period, the Provincial Women's Union received 94 paintings and 7 video clips selected by districts. The Provincial Women's Union also conducted a preliminary round and selected 30 paintings and 3 video clips to send to the Central Committee of the Vietnam Women's Union.

Miraculous

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