Speaking at the ceremony, Politburo member -Secretary of the HCMC Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan highly appreciated students’ enthusiasm and contribution. He hoped the city youth would instill creativity within people living in remote areas.
The campaign will take place from July 15-August 12 in HCM City and the neighboring provinces in the Southeast, Central, Highlands and Mekong Delta regions, and Laos.
The volunteers will participate in social welfare works including organizing summer courses for children; teaching law, and cultivation and breeding techniques.
They will also participate in key activities covering environmental protection, new rural development, traffic safety, social security and urban civilization; organizing summer courses for children and repairing houses, electric systems and roads in remote areas.
In Laos, the activists will provide agricultural expansion consultancy, transfer agricultural sciences and technologies, and teach Vietnamese language.
Secretary of the HCMC Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan welcomes Malaysian volunteers to join the campaign.
More than 60,000 students participate in the 25th Green Summer Campaign.