October 20th 2009 marked the 79th anniversary of Vietnamese Women’s Day. In order to promote the tradition of solidarity, community cooperation and encourage for those who are in difficulties, “Women’s festival day for community” was organized simultaneously in 24 urban/suburban districts of Ho Chi Minh City on October 10th 2009.

A movement launched by the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) has raised almost VND54 billion to build 4,590 charity houses for poor women across the country over the past year.

Chu Hoang Tung’s parents were very surprised to see a man teaching their son’s class when Tung entered the fifth grade at Le Ngoc Han Primary School.

The statue of Women of ‘Three Responsibilities’ was inaugurated in the centre of Phung town, Dan Phuong district, Hanoi on October 8 to mark the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi.

On September 18th, in honor of the International Day of Older Persons October 1st, the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU), in cooperation with the Vietnam Association for the Elderly (VAE) and the Research Center for Ageing Support (RECAS) held a Dialogue entitled “Voices of the Older Women”.

(CPV) – To continue the success of the “Writing compassionate words” for the first time, the charitable fund of VinaGame in collaboration with social network http://me.zing.vn, will launch “Writing compassionate words” 2, which will last from September 20 to November 20, 2009.

 

When preparing for her son’s first day at school, one mother weighed her first grader’s schoolbag. It weighed 2.7 kilos.

Implementing the 2009 work plan, the standing committee of Ha Nam provincial Women’s Union organized a training class on “improving knowledge on state management and women’s union work” for 232 women who are full time women’s union cadres and key cadres at local women’s unions of Ha Nam province from 28th July to 1st August 2009.

Suoi Da is a rural, large and populous commune of Duong Minh Chau district, Tay Ninh province. More than 90% of the households are doing agricultural works. The number of poor households is 511 (equivalent to 17% total households), among which, there are 122 poor female-headed households.

Under the framework of the project “Law and life club” (LARC II) to improve capacity of the women’s union, Bac Kan provincial Women’s Union organized a training course on skills of law communication and counseling for its staff and the staff of local justice organs. This project is funded by CARE International in Vietnam in collaboration with Bac Kan provincial Women’s Union and was implemented at Cho Moi and Na Ri districts from June 2007.

Recently, Quang Binh provincial Women’s Union organized a meeting to evaluate 5 year implementation of providing entrusted loans for poor households and beneficiaries of social policies and commence the work plan for the last 6 months of 2009.

In July 4th 2009, the VWU Presidium awarded the honour medal “For the development of Vietnamese women” – a noble prize of VWU to 3 German experts: Mr. Niclaus Bergman, Acting manager of Saving Banks Foundation for International Cooperation (SBFIC)/Sparkasee Essen Bank, Mr. Klaus Remmer, Manager of Sparkasee Essen’s Service Center, coordinator of the TYM project; & Mr. Joerg Teumer, TYM project’s consultants team leader, to recognize their contributions to promote and strengthen the cooperation and assistance towards the VWU in general and TYM Fund in particular in supporting poor women through credit & saving activities.

With the support of Vietnam Women’s Union, An Giang provincial Women’s Union organized a training course on anti-drug for advocators of An Giang Women’s Unions from 29th to 31st July 2009.

With the aim to help Son La Women’s Union to improve their staff capacity to implement the representative function of Son La Women’s Unions, Vietnam Women’s Union sent a mission to organize a training course for 78 women cadres from Son La provincial Women’s Union and 11 district women’s unions.

On 7th August 2009, Vietnam Women’s Union organized the Workshop “developing sub-projects”, under the framework of the project “ethical communication and education for Vietnamese women in the period of industrialization and modernization” which was developed by VWU and approved by the Prime Minister.

In the first 6 months of 2009, all levels of Hung Yen Provincial Women’s Union have used reputation as collateral to guaranty 60 billion VNDfrom Provincial Social Policy Bank to disburse loans to WU’s members raising the total VWU’s management capital to 388 billion VND for 49,967 borrowers.

In the first 6 months of 2009, Women’s Union at all levels in Thanh Hoa province have coordinated with the Department of Industry and the related organizations ... to mobilize fund to organize vocational training classes and to promote job creation and incomes generation for the 5000 members and women.

Phu Yen Women’s Union has implemented 7 projects to develop traditional village production in order to create conditions for members and women to increase income, develop household economy in districts of Tuy An, Song Cau, Phu Hoa and Tuy Hoa city.

Following the mobilization “Affection” house building and repairing by Central WU, in July 15th, WU of Kinh Mon district inaugurated and offered affection houses to Ms.Hoang Thi Chinh & Ms. Nguyen Thi The, members of WU in Thuong Chieu hamlet, Tan Dan commune.