Young electrician helps tie up electric cables in the alley on Nguyen Thai Hoc Street (District 1, Ho Chi Minh City) - Photo: K.ANH
The volunteer program to build civilized cities takes place simultaneously in all districts. Depending on the school area, residential area, and labor factory, units choose to build youth apartments, paint murals, remove illegal advertisements, and deploy people's patrol groups...
Building aesthetic living space
Young electricians from the Ho Chi Minh City Electricity Corporation Youth Union propagate to the people
In District 1, the Ho Chi Minh City Police Youth Union and a number of worker union establishments coordinated many urban beautification contents.
The "Beautiful Vietnam" mural project with a cost of about 600 million VND has been started, promising to give a new look to the wall of Nguyen Thai Hoc Primary School (District 1).
This is also the 10th project in a series of mural projects carried out by the Ho Chi Minh City Police Youth Union in collaboration with a number of units. In addition to contributing to repelling illegal advertising, it also integrates and conveys many cultural messages through each picture.
Meanwhile, Cau Ong Lanh ward (District 1) launched a people's patrol team on this occasion, coordinating to ensure security and order in the area.
People's patrol group of Cau Ong Lanh ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City
Remove illegal advertisements and graffiti
Young electricians from the Ho Chi Minh City Electricity Corporation Union spent the weekend participating in removing illegal advertisements and graffiti on electrical cabinets in the central area of District 1. The team of young electricians assisted Supporting electric cable bundles in some alleys.
Present in the squad, Mr. Le Hoang Minh said he had participated in many volunteer activities of the unit and hoped to contribute to the safe use of electricity in public places by neatly bundling electrical wires.
Secretary of the Youth Union of Ho Chi Minh City Electricity Corporation Huynh Tan Khuong said that the young people of the unit had cleaned the electrical cabinets many times, but soon graffiti appeared again. This is both laborious and costly.
"We hope to have stronger measures, severely punishing those who post illegal advertisements when violating regulations to deter others" - Mr. Khuong stated.
The forces and people coordinate to remove illegal advertisements
Hope the living environment is greener and cleaner
Giving green trees to people
In Nha Be district, the District Youth Union and Ho Chi Minh City Open University Youth Union organized a Green Living Festival in the apartment within the framework of this peak volunteer day.
At Phu My Thuan apartment building (Phu Xuan commune, Nha Be district), you donated trees to people with the message that each person plants one more tree to both beautify the living space and contribute to fighting environmental pollution.
People also worked together to clean up around the apartment complex and some roads with trash nearby. Likewise, booths exchanging recyclable waste for trees and gifts are propagated by young people so that people and children living in apartments understand and participate in classifying waste at source and limiting the use of plastic products. time.
On this occasion, you also encourage everyone to join the media campaign "Living green - small actions, big changes" with the challenge "7 days of green living". At the same time, young people distributed recycled shopping bags to people and painted murals to promote environmental protection.
Bringing his 5-year-old son along, Mr. Ngo Thanh Luan said that his family moved to live in the apartment more than a year ago and actively worked with relatives to build a culture of behavior in the common environment.
"My family also plants a few trees on the balcony, both to relieve stress and contribute some green to the apartment and family's living space" - Mr. Luan boasted.
Deputy Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Open University Youth Union Dang Nguyen Hoai Thuong said that along with the propaganda team on environmental protection, planting trees, and building a green lifestyle at the apartment building, the school also mobilizes students to do many things. volunteer activities.
"If every young person and people are a little more aware, our living environment will definitely improve" - Thuong said.
Various activities
Peak days record activities taking place simultaneously in many places. Green Living Festival, periodically maintaining the program "30 minutes for a green - clean - beautiful city" in response to the program "For a green Vietnam" and the campaign "Making the world cleaner".
Along with that, there are also programs: Second Journey of the County, Second Journey of Tires, Second Journey of Plastic Bottles... jointly launching community action models against plastic waste, joint construction Residential and residential markets reduce plastic waste.
Activities to care for children and families in difficult circumstances are also coordinated by Youth Union facilities such as giving scholarships, health insurance cards, gifts of necessities to disadvantaged households...
Take advantage of cyberspace
Institutions also take advantage of social networking space to design a number of activities to create challenges and trends online. The community pages of the Union - Association - Team along with a number of individual and union pages also responded, contributing to building a green, environmentally friendly lifestyle.
It can be mentioned as the challenge "One green action every day - 7 days challenge" by performing a green action: planting trees, cleaning up trash, creating green areas, propagating green living content. And currently promoting propaganda to respond to Earth Hour 2024 activities.
