Innovation in mass mobilization work in the border guards is not only about building plans or simple slogans, but must be a measure of the effectiveness of specific models and actions that have a widespread impact. The growth of "seedlings" in remote border areas or islands is not yet numerous, but those positive factors are shining brightly and strongly like sunflowers.
Sweet fruit - priceless reward
In the 2020-2021 school year, Nguyen Thi Huyen (born in 2002), Chien Thang village, Ngu Loc commune (Hau Loc) won first prize in the provincial excellent student competition in Chemistry and was directly admitted to the Foreign Trade University (Hanoi) with the achievement of being an excellent student for 3 years of high school. Her family lives in a particularly difficult coastal area, her father worked hard at sea for many years and had a work accident and had to stay home. The burden of making a living fell on the mother - the pillar of Huyen's father and 3 siblings. Ironically, Huyen's older brother also has a congenital disability. Close to the area, in 2019, the Da Loc Border Guard Station (Hau Loc) took on the responsibility of sponsoring her to finish grade 12, with 500,000 VND per month. The day my child received the provincial Chemistry results and entered university was right during the COVID-19 quarantine period, so the Border Guard officers could not come to congratulate him, but the phone call from Uncle Truong - the officer assigned by the station to be in charge of supporting my child - to share the joy, the whole family was extremely moved. From now on, the door to the future will be wider open for me, with opportunities and conditions to develop myself.
Huyen is now a second-year student at the Faculty of International Economics. She shared: “I am very lucky and grateful to the uncles for their love, care and financial support to help me overcome difficulties. Moreover, the uncles are always the ones who encourage, motivate and motivate me to study and develop myself as I am now. I dream of becoming a data analyst in the future and being able to help as many people as possible.”
In Phon Xay cluster, Sam To district, Hua Phan province (Laos), in previous years, Bat Mot Border Guard received support for Nang Keo, born in 2002 (Hang village), Phon Xay cluster, Sam To district, Hua Phan province (Laos) with especially difficult circumstances under the program "Helping children go to school" for 4 years from grade 9 to grade 12. After 3 years of completing high school, Nang Keo had the basic conditions to apply for a job and is working in the capital Vientiane with a stable income.
The gap of orphans or those with extremely difficult family circumstances has been gradually filled by the soldiers in green uniforms with noble gestures, not only taking care of food and education but also orienting the future and career. The program "Adopted children of the Border Guard", "Helping children go to school" is the concretization of the campaign "Promoting tradition, contributing talent, worthy of Uncle Ho's soldiers". Each child going to school is not only the joy of each family and school but also the joy of border guards and soldiers. Because raising and supporting children to go to school and learn a trade has solved many consequences, that is: The rate of students dropping out of school every year has decreased significantly; the children are bold and confident in participating in social activities, physical training, and their academic performance has improved significantly. The number of high school graduates is higher, more students pass the university entrance exam, go to prestigious and quality schools, and have the conditions to strive to grow up to be useful citizens for society.
According to statistics from the Provincial Border Guard Command, from 2016 to 2021, 1 child won first prize in Chemistry in the provincial excellent student competition in the 2020-2021 school year; 3 children won second and third prizes at the district level; 5 children were admitted to universities and colleges. In 2019, 2 children finished grade 12 due to difficult family economic conditions so they dropped out of school to work. In 2020, the unit contacted T78 Friendship School (teaching Vietnamese to Laotian students and training human resources for ethnic minority and mountainous areas) to recruit 4 children to study at the school, including 2 children in the program to help children go to school. In the 2020-2021 school year, 7 children finished grade 12; 21/87 children were excellent students; 42/87 children had good academic performance; 24/87 children have average academic performance.
Some outstanding students' academic achievements include: Nguyen Thi Huyen in Ngu Loc commune (Hau Loc); Hoang Nguyen Cam Van, Thiet Ong commune (Ba Thuoc), district-level excellent student in Civic Education; Nguyen Le Ha Uyen, An Hung ward, Thanh Hoa city, third prize winner in Civic Education, currently studying at the People's Police Academy; Hoang Duc Anh, Nghi Son commune (Nghi Son town), third prize winner in Math at the town level; Cao Diem Quynh, Trung Son ward, Sam Son city, third prize winner in Geography at the provincial level...
As the locality that initiated and took the lead in implementing "Adopted Children of the Border Guard" in 2013 and developed this program to achieve many results, the Provincial Border Guard Command has been recognized and highly appreciated by the leaders of the Party, State, Central Committees, Ministries, and Branches, the Central Military Commission, and the Ministry of National Defense; and the Party Committees, authorities, and People in the border areas have agreed and supported. Because through sponsoring and nurturing the children, the Border Guard discovers, nurtures, and "incubates" the core elements in the movement of the entire people participating in protecting territorial sovereignty and national border security, while contributing to strengthening the solidarity between the army and the people, creating human resources to serve the construction and development of increasingly strong border areas, firmly consolidating the people's hearts to protect the Fatherland's borders.
The happiness of the station is the belief of the local people
It can be said that the Border Guard is a force that plays the role of a bridge, connecting the people, the Party committees, and the authorities on both sides of the border and the coastal areas. On the one hand, it is a "blocking" force, protecting the peace of the border area and also a "fulcrum" for the people here to develop production and life. It is this closeness and closeness as well as the simple but extremely practical contributions that have created a solid position for the Border Guard in the hearts of the people. They bring prosperity to the villagers, directly participate in the orientation and implementation of economic development, improve the cultural and social life of the locality; participate in the social learning program, universal education, mobilize drop-out students to return to school, students of school age; support hundreds of working days to help households produce, help schools renovate some works; Building shelters for soldiers at the border to give housing to border guards in especially difficult circumstances, helping comrades feel secure in staying in their villages and completing their assigned tasks well... Thanks to the participation of border guards, the rate of poor households in border areas, where they are stationed, has gradually decreased, life has improved, and increased the trust and love of the people for the border guards.
During a conversation with Mr. Thong Lun, Bun Xu's father in Tha Lau village, Phon Xay cluster, Sam To district, Hua Phan province (Laos), when seeing us and the Bat Mot Border Guard officers and soldiers off, he tearfully used sign language and was translated: "I am very grateful to the Border Guard officers and soldiers. I hope my children and many other children with special difficulties can study, have enough food, warm clothes... so that the future is not bleak."
There are still many students and children in especially difficult circumstances that need help, but the friendly and cooperative border army and people have developed, and the officers and soldiers of the border stations in the province still take on two roles: "Two in one", both as parents of adopted children of border stations, and as relatives taking care of and supporting their children to go to school, orienting their future so that they are not self-conscious, have inferiority complexes, and strive to nurture their dreams of overcoming difficulties.
Secretary of the Party Committee of Bat Mot Commune (Thuong Xuan), Luong Thi Luu, expressed her satisfaction: "What the Border Guard officers and soldiers have been doing has helped their families a lot, and together with the local political system, they have built and protected the border!"
With positive contributions to the government and people, the greatest joy of the border guards of Thanh Hoa province is the trust and love of the local people. They have been building a beautiful image in the hearts of the people, worthy of the trust and love of the ethnic minorities in the border and island areas, making the image of "Uncle Ho's soldiers" always shine as in the Campaign "Promoting tradition, dedicating talent, worthy of the name of Uncle Ho's soldiers".
Article and photos: Le Ha - Hoang Lan
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