When the village chief does "civil mobilization" work
In Na Hang district, where ethnic minorities make up the majority of the population with 12 ethnic groups living together. With a large natural area, plus the differences in customs, culture, and beliefs, it is more difficult for officials to approach and propagate.
Tuyen Quang province currently has 1,115 prestigious people among ethnic minorities. With the ability to "speak so that people believe, act so that people follow", prestigious people are always trusted by Party committees and authorities at all levels, because of their great influence in mobilizing people .
Therefore, the election of village elders, village chiefs, and prestigious people is always emphasized. These are the "nuclei" that play a particularly important role in helping to unite the community, strengthen the great national unity bloc; pioneer in movements, maintain security and order, develop the economy, and have many contributions in activities to preserve, maintain and promote traditional cultural values of ethnic groups.
Na Ngoang village, Con Lon commune, is a locality with a high rate of poor households and many difficulties in Na Hang district. The whole village has 80 households but the rate of early marriage and incestuous marriage has always been high.
Faced with this reality, Mr. Nguyen Van Ly, Village Chief, a prestigious person of Na Ngoang, actively propagated and mobilized people to change their thinking, focus on labor production to escape poverty. To make his voice more important to the villagers, Mr. Ly pioneered in changing the mindset of doing business and escaping poverty. He started his business when he was nearly 50 years old. In 2012, he began planting and taking care of 15 hectares of forest, with tallow and acacia trees. After a few years, the forest generated income, the economy improved, and his children graduated and had stable jobs.
Mr. Ly is a person who understands the importance of education as a chance to escape poverty, so he always teaches his children to study well. At first, he teaches his children, then advises his grandchildren in the family. Gradually, people see the meaning of education, so they pay attention and encourage their children to go to school, thereby contributing to preventing child marriage...
Mr. Ly added: “When I was elected as a Prestigious Person, I actively promoted to the people in village meetings and solidarity days in residential areas. In addition, I coordinated with village and commune officials to go to each household to check marriage registration, strictly handle according to the village covenant, make records of underage couples preparing to get married and report to the authorities for timely intervention.”
Like Mr. Ly, Mr. Nguyen Van Bo, Head of Nam Cam Village (Thuong Giap Commune) and a prestigious person, has also witnessed many pains caused by early marriage and incestuous marriage. When elected as a prestigious person in the village, he believed that he must prevent early marriage and incestuous marriage at all costs; by regularly propagating to the people about the harmful effects and consequences of early marriage and incestuous marriage.
Mr. Bo recalled: “At first, people did not listen or did not care, but I realized that I had to be persistent with the method of “slow and steady wins the race”. After talking for a long time, people finally listened. If before, there were often 4 to 5 couples getting married early in the village, now this number has decreased significantly.”
Together, let's solve the "problem" of child marriage
Mr. Hoang Hung Chanh, Head of the Ethnic Affairs Department of Na Hang district, said that implementing Sub-project 2 on reducing child marriage and consanguineous marriage in ethnic minority areas, in addition to the participation of all levels and sectors, the district has also promoted the "spearhead" role of Village Elders and Village Chiefs who are prestigious people at the grassroots level, thanks to which the number of child marriage couples over the years has tended to decrease.
In particular, Na Hang district has also developed plans to implement the Project "Reducing child marriage and consanguineous marriage in ethnic minority areas" in Tuyen Quang province, period 2022-2025; Implementation plan of Sub-project 2 - Project 9 of the National Program on socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas on "Reducing child marriage and consanguineous marriage in ethnic minority and mountainous areas" in Tuyen Quang province in 2024.
To effectively implement the Project and Plan above, the district pays special attention to communication activities, diversifies propaganda forms, closely coordinates with agencies, units, and localities, promotes the role of key people. Prestigious people in ethnic minorities and mountainous areas in propagating and mobilizing about the harmful effects of early marriage and consanguineous marriage, joins hands to preserve and promote good customs and cultural identities of ethnic minorities, eliminates backward customs and practices; creates consensus in society, changes the behavior in marriage of ethnic minorities; contributes to improving the quality of population and human resources in ethnic minority areas.
At the same time, Na Hang district also actively organizes training activities, fosters legal knowledge and communication skills, mobilizes and provides legal advice related to marriage, population and family for cadres and civil servants working on ethnic affairs, and legal reporters and propagandists in the locality.
Along with that, continue to maintain and deploy the model of "Reducing child marriage and consanguineous marriage in ethnic minority areas" in areas with high rates of child marriage and consanguineous marriage; enhance the role and responsibility of the Steering Committee at the commune, village and hamlet levels in disseminating, consulting and resolving cases related to marriage and family in villages and hamlets; increase access to information and education for ethnic minority students aged 13 to 18 years old to understand reproductive health and awareness of marriage and family....
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