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Although Vietnam is still a poor country, its achievements in
taking care of children deserve a pride. Thanks to the
achievements of the country’s renewal cause initiated and
led by the Party, the quality-of-life index for most
children has seen much progress and children have been ever
better looked after and educated. Along with the Party and
State’s line and policies ‘Bringing best things to
children’, mass and social organisations, enterprises and
kind-hearted individuals at home and abroad have been
joining efforts in taking care of the country’s future
generation.
There have been thousands of houses for orphans,
thousands of ‘compassion’ classrooms for illiterate children
and uncountable generous hearts assisting and lending wings
to the disadvantaged children.
The whole Party, army and people have been vigorously
implementating of the campaign named ‘Study and follow the
moral example of Ho Chi Minh’. Uncle Ho’s Thought, morals
and deeds are always imbued with love and special trust in
the young generation.
He once put it “For the benefit of ten years, we must
plant trees, but for the benefit of hundred years, we must
cultivate the future generation’.
In each period of the country’s development and
revolutionary cause, President Ho Chi Minh’s Thought
regarding ‘cultivating the next revolutionary generations’
has reminded us of the responsibility for protecting, taking
care of and educating the nation’s young generation.
Over the past 15 years, every June – Action Month for
Children has become a month for holding the multi-form,
practical and effective activities for all children. This
year’s Action Month for Children deployed with a theme
‘Joining hands in helping poor children’ has become more
significant in the context that the Vietnamese economy is
facing a lot of difficulties due to the affect of the global
economic crisis, in which poor people and children
inhabiting in the mountainous, remote and far-flung areas
and the ethnic minority people, are the direst and worst
affected.
According to statistics, there are still over 4 million
children living in poor households, mainly in rural areas.
Apart from the policy on taking care of the country’s future
generation, the Government has held programmes on giving
better care to children in special situation, including poor
children.
This month with specific and practical deeds, let all of
us work together to bring the best things to the future
generation. Poor and disadvantaged children are in dire need
of ‘compassion houses’ and kind hearts.
Let the whole society bring compassion, assistance and
care to poor children through their specific and practical
actions. Let’s help the children get out of poverty,
diseases and attend school and protect them against abuses
and maltreatments and other social evils.
Along with building a lot of models of happy, advanced,
equal and prosperous families, it is necessary to give more
concerns to protecting children’s rights so that they can
attend schools and have good times.
The summer vocation is coming. Authorities at all levels
and mass organisations in close co-ordination with families
should create the best possible conditions for children to
enjoy happy, safe and useful summer days. Sentiments and
responsibility for children need to be concretised into
daily jobs any where and any time.
Nhan Dan |
