Youth organisations in cities and provinces across the country have launched various campaigns in response to the Month of Young People and the 2018 Traffic Safety Year.

In the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho, the municipal committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCM CYU) will hold communication activities on the union’s traditions and history in perse forms such as dialogues, forums and study trips to cultural and historical sites both in and outside the locality.

The committee will support young people’s engagement in the startup movement in rural areas through the provision of training on farming techniques and supply of plant and animal varieties.

Youth union members will engage in various activities, including tree planting (Photo: hanoimoi.com.vn)

The union will assist with the new rural area building campaign by mobilizing funding of businesses for of rural road construction and charity activities while encouraging union members to implement their own projects.

The municipal youth union will coordinate with the city’s electricity company to hold forestation campaigns and activities promoting the economical use of energy and environmental protection.

The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCM CYU) chapter in the northern province of Ninh Binh launched the Youth Month at a ceremony on February 26, with delegates and youth union members engaging in planting trees, teaching traffic rules to students at several schools in Kim Son district and inaugurating a lighting system for Chat Binh commune.

Young people in the central province of Binh Dinh also joined in a tree planting festival at the Nui Cheo historical site in Hoai An district in responding to the Youth Month.

Thousands of others set out to clean up the environment, donate blood, and carry out other projects after the ceremony.

The Youth Month was launched with the aim to enhance the sense of responsibility of young people and stimulate their potential and innovation in local socio-economic development as well as their voluntary spirit for community’s interest./.

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