Roles of WU at all levels in national security maintenance
Identifying national security maintenance as the prior task, the all the Women’s Unions (VWU) in the district have actively participated and coordinated with local departments, industries and organizations to secure lives of people at the borderline with the neighboring country of Lao.
One of the focused tasks of the district WU is promoting communication activities to enhance the awareness of local WU members and women. Local WU, in coordination with the district’s Border Guard Station, regularly appoint cadres and soldiers to hamlets to participate in people’s activities replacing thatched cottages with build houses, encouraging women to apply science and technology in production, animal husbandry for family economic development; eliminating superstitious customs; being alert with and preventing destructive schemes of bad people. The WU also coordinates with the district’s Border Guard Stations and local schools to eradicate illiteracy for women. Since 2001, 32 illiteracy eradication classes have been organized, attracting 1,082 women, contributing to decrease the illiteracy rate to 4.3% in 2006.
In addition, WU in coordination with
The movement “People unite to develop cultural lives” is promoted by the women who actively encouraged their husbands and children to sign the commitmenton not involving in such social evil such as drug; illegal migration abroad; trafficking, storing and using explosive material; shielding and furnishing subversive elements; and illegally occupying land .
Together with communication activities, WU is mandated by the Social policy Bank to provide women with loans for production, animal husbandry; as well as to train, transfer science and technology, and establish sustainable economic development models for women to learn from.
Especially since 2003, WU has coordinated with border guards to implement a pilot plan of developing the organization of the WU in Ta Do hamlet, Muong Tip commune, Ky Son district into a unit of all-sided strength. As a result, 156 WU’s members and women are literate; saving-credit groups are set up and trained with science and technology transfer. Thus, exemplary women are discovered. Some women are active and confident to raise their ideas at hamlets’ meetings. This practice helps to implement the Grassroots Democratic Regulations, enhancing the capacities of WU’s staffs on management; the role of WU at all levels are more obviously represented.
WU’s activities have contributed to the dramatic reduction of the rate of the poor household from 15% in 2003 (according to old criterion) to 8% in 2006; the rate of WU membership among women population increased to 65% in 2006, 25% higher than that in 2003; neighborhood relations has been fostered thus helping prevent and repel schemes, tricks and peaceful development of the counter revolutionary .
