Youth Month 2021 launched in Thai Nguyen province

The youth unions of the Central Agencies Bloc and the northern province of Thai Nguyen on February 28 co-organised a ceremony in the locality to kick off the Youth Month 2021, and launch a tree-planting festival.
 Youth Month 2021 launched in Thai Nguyen province ảnh 1At the ceremony to kick off the Youth Month 2021, and launch a tree-planting festival (Photo: VNA)

Thai Nguyen (VNA) -
The youth unions of the Central Agencies Bloc and the northern province of Thai Nguyen on February 28 co-organised a ceremony in the locality tokick off the Youth Month 2021, and launch a tree-planting festival.

The event was in response to the 90th founding anniversaryof the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (March 26, 1931-2021).

A wide range of programmes and activities were held in the framework of theevent, including presenting gifts to 15 former volunteer youths, bikes to 10 studentswith special circumstances in Dai Tu district and bookcases to local schools,and supporting the building of house for one poor household, among others.

Following the launching ceremony, the participants and local youths plantedtrees, and clean up the Vietnamese youth historical relic site, and severalroads in Dai Tu district./.
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