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Opening ceremony |
Addressing the ceremony, Secretary of the provincial Youth Union – Bui Xuan
Thong – said: “To promote 2008 summer vacation’s achievements, 2009 summer
activities in Dong Nai province will go together with the activities to welcome
major national holidays and important events. With the theme “A happy, healthy,
safe and friendly summer”, this year’s summer activities will mainly focus on
promoting education and propaganda of heroic traditions of the country. Thereby,
it will help the children get an orientation towards their learning, striving
and training to become useful people and create a summer playground of
healthiness and usefulness for Dong Nai province’s teenagers and children so
that the summer vacation will be a festival for children. It is necessary to
continue to promote on-site voluntary activities, especially those of high
school students – an elite force of the province’s voluntary youth movement, to
improve the activity quality of young pioneer detachments, pioneer groups,
voluntary clubs and pioneer clubs, to discover and train the talents in a
variety of fields and nominate them to special pioneer detachments and groups
with the intention of building a team of successors, to organize activities
associated with natural environment, to form living skill clubs and to help them
get an orientation towards an independent living style.
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Here
are the young pioneers competing in the contest “An excellent young
pioneer leader”, which is one of the summer activities |
Accordingly, the province’s 2009 summer activities mainly focus on the following
ones: political education, academic review and talent development, cultural and
sports activities, social activities and public-labor workdays. Particularly, in
terms of political education, summer activities will focus on the education of
national traditions and the learning about the history of major holidays, about
the biography and life of famous persons and heroic martyrs and about local
historical sites. It is necessary to hold the contest “Journey to Dien Bien” and
other contests for acquiring a better understanding of the glorious traditions
of Youth Union, Pioneer Detachments and Vietnam Youth Union, to continue
promoting the campaign “Dong Nai youth listen to and follow Uncle Ho’s advice”
through eloquence contests, lecture competitions, quiz competitions, Uncle Ho’s
bookcase and so on, to diversify forms of propaganda and education of the
Party’s guidelines and the government’s policies and law with the intention of
raising young pioneers’ awareness of obedience to law, to promote the campaign
“Good life and useful life” among youth union members, teenagers and children in
which they will participate in building cultural quarters and to hold classes of
the propaganda of Vietnamese sea and islands for the team of young pioneer
leaders and for key youth union members with the intention of educating pioneers
on patriotism and protection of independence and national sovereignty. In terms
of academic review and talent development, schools ought to actively collaborate
with youth unions and young pioneer groups in holding extra refresher classes
for weak students to help them acquire general knowledge before they start a new
school year, hold illiteracy eradication classes, universal education classes
and classes of compassion and especially pay more attention to ethnic group and
homeless children, hold rudimentary classes of computer, language and talents
for children in hinterland areas and encourage them to attend these classes,
form clubs for pioneer units, detachments and groups who have the same favorite
subjects and arrange visits to companies and vocational schools and craft
villages for them with the intention of helping them get a job orientation… In
terms of cultural, music and sports activities, it is necessary to appeal for
social donations, to organize a variety of entertainment activities and create a
summer playground of healthiness with activities: sightseeing trips, travel,
field trips, picnics, camping trips, contests of culture, music performance and
sports, reading books and newspapers... The province and local authorities will
bring pioneer music performance groups, propaganda groups of revolutionary
songs, music teams to hinterland communes to serve local residents and children.
In terms of social activities and public-labor workdays, it is necessary to form
youth teams who are voluntary to participate in social activities and contribute
to bringing benefits to localities, to create conditions for teenagers and
children to participate in the activities of looking after and educating
exceptionally needy children, to arrange visits to and offer gifts to
government-funded families, veterans’ families, heroic martyrs’ families and the
families who have dedicated to the revolutionary career and to carry out the
province’s youth projects with the intention of helping students in hinterland
areas.
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Young
pioneers are presented with Kim Dong awards |
At the opening ceremony for 2009 summer vacation, the provincial team
Association gave one Tran Van On award to Phun Kai Chong (a student from class
TH72II of the 26/3 vocational training school) and eight Kim Dong awards to the
children who obtained outstanding achievements in 2008.
(Reported by Lien Huong,
Translated by Duy Minh)