HCM City’s young intellectuals have volunteered in community activities and programmes at the city’s annual summer youth volunteer campaign in Đồng Tháp Province through the end of July. — Photo courtesy of HCM City’s HCYU

HCM CITY — From July 15 to 30, around 90 highly educated young volunteers in HCM City have taken part in building new-style rural areas, transferring technical advances, promoting digital transformation and improving digital capacity for youth in the (Mekong) Delta province of Đồng Tháp.

The young intellectuals have volunteered for numerous community activities and programmes at this year’s HCM City 2023 summer youth volunteer campaign organised by the Hồ Chí Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) of HCM City, benefiting people in the city and its neighbouring provinces.

According to the HCYU of HCM City, the young volunteers are divided into five working teams to work in the province’s Tháp Mười District.

A consultant team will carry out activities for agricultural development.

The team will organise training on breeding sea ducks, growing mushrooms and planting trees with environmental protection, as well as give about 2,000 ducklings, 300 mushroom embryo bags and 200 seedlings to locals.

It will also offer training on treating organic waste, solutions to reduce air pollution, and reducing the foul odour from agricultural waste.

It will provide technical guidance on livestock production and cultivation to local households, support locals in technology transfer and the application of science and technology into agricultural production, and consult on trading agricultural products and methods to promote consumption of agricultural products.

It will instruct locals, especially youth, on processing and preservation techniques for food and agricultural products.

Another team will provide local children with knowledge and social skills, and give away five bookcases.

It will provide students talks on building beautiful friendships, saying no to school violence, emotional management skills and positive thinking; and skills in preventing and fighting fake news on social networks, and civilised and cultured behaviour in cyberspace.

It will organise playgrounds for students with rich knowledge about astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology and math.

Three other teams will take charge of a number of activities in supporting administrative procedure reform, consulting on healthcare and providing free examinations and medicine to 500 people, and promoting digital transformation. — VNS