One early winter day, we visited Dep area, Van Luong commune and met Mr. Ha Quoc Oa (born in 1960) - a typical ethnic minority in Tan Son district. In the garden shaded by fruit trees, Mr. Oa was busy harvesting grapefruits in season. Quickly inviting guests into his house, making a pot of fresh tea just picked from the hill, Mr. Oa told us about the life of the Muong people here and the solidarity and cohesion of the community over the years.
As a soldier returning from the war to protect the southwestern border, Mr. Oa started to develop his family's economy with 1 hectare of tea, more than 30 grapefruit trees and regularly participated in movements and activities in the community. From 2019 to 2023, in the process of implementing the National Target Program on Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas; the National Target Program on New Rural Development (NTM), as the Head of the Elderly Association of Dep area, Mr. Oa actively promoted the program to help members understand the meaning and benefits of the program and mobilized people to support and follow it.
Mr. Oa always actively propagates to people to keep the environment, village roads and alleys clean.
Previously, the road from Dep area to My Thuan commune was muddy and stagnant when it rained, and dusty when it was sunny, making it difficult to travel. In 2019, Van Luong commune proposed a policy to upgrade the road in the direction of the State and the people working together. The road construction process was entangled with many households' land areas, so many households disagreed. Mr. Oa's family was the first to volunteer to donate 200m2 of land and then mobilized households whose roads passed through to donate land and labor days.
Not only that, he and the Front Committee of the area mobilized households to contribute to repairing the cultural house and purchasing equipment and cultural institutions for the area. Thanks to the efforts, attempts and solidarity of the people, in 2023, Dep area achieved the title of New Rural Residential Area and has been a cultural residential area for many consecutive years.
Mr. Oa shared: My family and I always comply with and support the Party's policies and guidelines, the State's laws and policies, always take the lead in local movements, enthusiastically compete in labor production, participate in material and labor contributions in building the new rural area with the desire to actively contribute to the results of implementing the local socio-economic development goals.
Mr. Oa is one of the households that always takes the lead in economic development in the residential area.
Dep area has 130 households, of which 50% are Muong ethnic people. Promoting the role of "Elderly people with bright examples", he and the Executive Committee of the Elderly Association in the area actively mobilized people to preserve and promote the unique cultural values of the Muong people and eliminate backward, cumbersome, costly customs that waste time and money. Up to now, people have practiced a civilized lifestyle in weddings and funerals, not holding funerals for too long, and when sick, they have proactively gone to medical facilities and hospitals to get examined and buy medicine.
According to comrade Nguyen Thiet Hai - Chairman of Van Luong Commune People's Committee: Mr. Oa is a typical example of an advanced ethnic minority group in the commune who has made significant contributions in the fields of socio-economic development, poverty reduction, new rural construction, maintaining security and order, building cultural life in residential areas, becoming a bridge between ethnic minorities and Party committees and authorities at all levels, joining hands with the people to build an increasingly prosperous homeland.
Vy An
Source: https://baophutho.vn/nguoi-muong-tieu-bieu-o-khu-dep-223787.htm
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