Aiming to contribute to the fight against the pandemic, Hanoi’s youths have been implementing activities and essential tasks to join hands with local administrations to protect the green zones in every corner of the city.
Bac Tu Liem district’s youth union set up a rapid response team for COVID-19 prevention and control with 490 volunteers who are union members and students living and studying in the district.
The volunteers were on duty at 70 checkpoints to control people travelling in and out, and took part in monitoring and supporting 38 COVID-19 vaccination and testing points in the district.
The district’s youth union also established 40 mobile teams with 120 volunteers using portable loudspeakers, and cycling two shifts a day to every residential area to disseminate regulations on prevention and control and update the pandemic situation in the city and across the country.
The youth union also mobilised 15 students who were studying or graduated from medical and pharmaceutical schools and living in the district to join the Volunteer Medical Student Team to support medical workers at the district health centre in tracing, testing and vaccination, according to Nguyen Duc Ngoc, the youth union’s secretary.
Moreover, the union opened a call centre operating 24 hours a day with the task of receiving information to help people who were facing difficulties due to the impact of the pandemic.
Through the call centre, the district’s youth and women unions have delivered 790 gifts worth more than VND300 million (US$6,870) for needy people, youth and children in the area.
Supporting farmers
In Hoang Mai district, there were 470 check points in green zones of 14 wards.
Hoang Mai’s youth union cooperated with other social unions and COVID-19 prevention and control units to support the local people.
The youth union's secretary Nguyen Quynh Trang said: “We reviewed the list of labourers who were facing difficulties in the pandemic to provide timely support so as to contribute to ensuring social security and strengthening solidarity and consensus among people in the fight against the pandemic.
The youth union also organised connections between localities that needed to support agricultural product consumption with the people in green zones so that people could easily buy food, Trang said.
This also helped farmers in lockdown areas.
Recently, the union had helped to sell tonnes of longan and thousands of eggs for farmers in Thanh Oai and My Duc districts.
Trang said: “We received information from Thanh Oai and My Duc districts' youth unions that large quantity of agricultural products and fruits could not be sold to school and factory canteens and restaurants due to social distancing.
“We decided to connect and support the consumption of products for farmers of the two districts.”
Besides, there were 20 young people to voluntarily work as shippers to deliver the products to every household in the green zones in Hoang Mai District.
"All the voluntary shippers were vaccinated and always complied with pandemic prevention regulations," Trang said.
“With the enthusiasm of the shippers, in just two days, Hoang Mai’s youth union helped to sell nearly six tonnes of longan, 6,000 duck eggs, 100 ducks and 200kg of frogs from farmers of Thanh Oai district and one tonne of longan and 6,000 duck eggs for farmers in My Duc district.”
The youth of the capital city have been cooperating with authorities at all levels to protect the green zones and soon bring the city back to normal.
