Ho Chi Minh City (VNA) – The Federation ofLabour of Ho Chi Minh City on January 19 handed free coach tickets and gifts toover 4,000 poor workers in industrial and export-processing zones in the cityon the occasion of the coming traditional lunar New Year.
Recipients include those workers who could not afford thefares to go back to their home towns for the Tet, the most important festivalfor Vietnamese who often treasure family reunion on the approach of Spring,which will come in early next month.
Speaking at the hand-over ceremony, Vice Chairman of themunicipal People’s Committee Huynh Cach Mang spoke highly of the efforts by thetrade unions as well as attention by enterprises to workers. The official saidthe act affirms the deep humanity and high sense of social responsibility ofinvestors, and expressed his hope that the work will be multiplied anddiversified in the time to come.
According to Vice Chairman of the federation Kieu Ngoc Vu,the organization has mobilized assistance to the provision of 35,000 free coachtickets for poor workers in the city this year. Besides the tickets, tradeunions in the city also plan to arrange coaches to bring over 13,200 workers backto their home towns for the occasion.
Launched for the first time in Ho Chi Minh City in 2009, theprogramme has so far provided nearly 270,000 free tickets to poor workers witha total of nearly 180 billion VND (over 7.7 million USD).-VNA