Youth summer campaign helps better rural infrastructure
The June-August youth volunteer summer campaign launched by the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union has built 1,071 km of new roads in rural areas.
Volunteers join in supporting national entrance exam participants in Hanoi. Photo: VNAThe June-August youth volunteer summer campaign launched by the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union has built 1,071 km of new roads in rural areas.
Campaign participants have helped upgrade 4,074 km of roads, installed road lights on 2,000 km, and repaired 423 cultural centres, playgrounds for children and more than 3,000 compassionate houses in villages as well.
These outcomes of the 2015 campaign were revealed by the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and the Hanoi Youth Union at a conference held in Hanoi on August 30.
The campaign has thus far trained 160,000 rural youths with modern farming techniques, and consulted and offered jobs for 378,000 others.
As many as 60,000 volunteers joined in supporting national entrance exam participants in big cities, heard the conference.-VNA
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