Vietnamese children "Young age, big ambition", cultivating virtue and talent

Students of Ha Huy Tap Secondary School, Vinh City, Nghe An Province. Illustrative photo: Bich Hue/VNA

Generations of young people have been trained and grown up with the country, continuing to write the golden pages of the glorious tradition of the Young Pioneers, contributing to building the heroic history of the nation.

"Young age, great ambition" Lac Hong's descendants

Following the example of Mr. Kim Dong - the first Captain of the Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneers Organization, the team members and children across the country constantly strive to continue studying, working, and training, contributing to making the Team's history brighter, promoting the spirit of "Young age, great ambition" of Lac Hong's descendants. The aspirations, motivations and achievements of the children are fueled by the profound values of the nation's history, by the shining examples of the Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneers.

The Kim Dong Award is a noble award of the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, presented annually to Team members and Team leaders with outstanding achievements in Team work and the national children's movement. Returning to Hanoi, the children participated in many useful and meaningful activities such as visiting the Thang Long Imperial Citadel Relic Site, Kim Dong Publishing House and participating in the exchange "Friends from books - Read and follow the Team newspaper with me"; experiencing the night tour of the Temple of Literature "The Quintessence of Philosophy"; visiting President Ho Chi Minh...

This year, there are 125 faces including 34 boys and 91 girls; 14 of them are ethnic minorities who were awarded this noble award. They are typical examples, enthusiastic about the work of the Team and the children's movement; diligent in studying and training; actively participating in cultural, artistic and sports activities, winning many national and international awards; always sharing love and helping friends in difficult circumstances.

A typical example is Phan Le Gia Han, class 9A4, Van Don Secondary School (District 4, Ho Chi Minh City), who is the Team Leader, a good student, loves culture and arts, and has been passionate about dancing and singing since childhood. She has participated in many competitions and programs and has won many great awards with 3 Gold medals, 1 Silver medal, and 1 Bronze medal at the 2022 WDSF Superstar International Dancesport Championships; an award at the 2022 National Sports Dance Competition; First Prize for solo singing at the 2022 City Nightingale Singing Festival; 6 Gold medals at the 2023 Ho Chi Minh City Open Sports Dance Festival for Children's Houses...

In addition to major awards in art, at school, Gia Han has always been an excellent student, loved by teachers and friends for her sociability, diligence, and active participation in Team activities. For many years, she has won the title of excellent student and many achievements in Team work. She is honored to be the school representative to participate in the first mock session of the "Children's National Assembly" in 2023; voters participate in the program "People ask - Government answers" organized by the People's Council of Ho Chi Minh City. In this school year, her joy is multiplied by the prestigious Kim Dong Award.

Dang Hoang Ly Linh, class 9A, Pac Nam Secondary School for Ethnic Minorities (Pac Nam District, Bac Kan Province) is an exemplary Tay ethnic group Team Leader, well-behaved, studious and disciplined. Ly Linh has won many awards and achievements in Team work, study and discipline. She has been an excellent student for many years; Commander of the 4th National Excellent Team in 2023. She also won first prize at the provincial level in the English Speaking Contest for the 2023-2024 school year; second prize at the district level in the English Olympiad on the Internet for high school students. With those outstanding achievements, he was awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Department of Education and Training of Bac Kan province in the emulation campaign to celebrate Vietnamese Teachers' Day and the title of Pac Nam Children following Uncle Ho's teachings in the 2021-2022 school year. In the 2023-2024 school year, Dang Hoang Ly Linh is one of 14 outstanding ethnic minority team members to be awarded the Kim Dong award.

Le Bao Trung, class 8/1, Le Van Thiem Secondary School (Ha Tinh city, Ha Tinh province) is an energetic Team Leader. In the Team work, as a leader, he is always the one who inspires the spirit, leads the team members of the whole school to participate enthusiastically, achieves many positive results and receives the love of everyone. Spending a lot of time on the Team work, Bao Trung also achieved excellent results in national and international competitions. He was awarded a certificate of merit by the Central Team Council for achieving high results in the Final Round of the Vietnam English Talent Playground in 2020; Silver medal in the HIPPO International English Competition in 2019 - 2020; Third prize in the TOEFL International English Competition in 2019 - 2020; Encouragement prize for National Reading Culture Ambassador in 2019...

Active school for Vietnamese children

May 15, 1941 is forever a milestone, a mark of the Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneer Team. From the first 5 team members in the early days of its establishment, up to now, the whole country has had more than 15.9 million team members, teenagers, and children operating nationwide, nearly 25,000 teachers as team leaders.

Children participate in many exciting and widespread emulation movements nationwide, from the movement "Vietnamese children compete to follow Uncle Ho's 5 teachings" to the programs "Vietnamese children - Study well, practice hard", "Vietnamese youth - Cultivate virtue and talent, lead the future", the campaign "Every week a beautiful story, a good book, a shining example", the playground "Vietnamese children - Reaching out to the world", the Color Festival, "I love science - Young technology talents"; UPU international letter writing or the contest "Creativity among teenagers and children", "Young informatics", "Science journey", the activity "Creative experience recess"; "Experience on digital platform"... From these movements and activities, many examples of children overcoming difficulties, competing to do good deeds; contributing to the development of thinking, creativity, equipping digital skills and international integration have emerged.

With the spirit of “Young people do small things” to educate children to know how to make small plans to create big things, Vietnamese children have built great works such as: Thieu Nien Tien Phong Plastic Factory, Khan Quang Do Hotel, Thong Nhat North-South Train, Kim Dong Heroic Historical Site, Khan Quang Do House for children in difficult circumstances. Promoting the tradition of “Mutual Love”, thousands of children in every neighborhood and village have cared for and shared with their compatriots in more difficult circumstances through small but sincere and loving actions.

It can be said that the humanitarian movements: “Thousands of good deeds”, “Return to the source”, “Silk shirt for grandmother”, “Drinking water, remember the source”, “A pair of friends progressing together”, “Circle of friends”… have contributed to educating children, helping them strive to become good children, good students, good team members, good grandchildren of Uncle Ho. Children have also created and created many models and methods to promote children’s right to participate in children’s own issues such as “Mailbox of What I Want to Say”; “Children’s Council”; “Children’s Parliament” mock session… These are models that promote children’s early participation in political and social activities, nurturing their dreams and ambitions to become useful people for the country in the future.

Chairman of the Central Council of the Young Pioneers Nguyen Pham Duy Trang said that the movements, campaigns and programs of the Young Pioneers are increasingly being deployed extensively with rich contents and forms of activities, having profound educational significance, creating a learning and training environment, contributing to nurturing and forming for young people and children the good qualities of citizens in the new era. The Young Pioneers' activities have strongly spread the flame of love for the homeland and country, igniting in them the dream and aspiration to serve and contribute to building the homeland and the country. Through that, the Young Pioneers organization has discovered, trained and nurtured many excellent, dynamic and enthusiastic Young Pioneers to contribute to the development of the country in the future.

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