More than 5,500 young people in the capital city of Hanoi, with 80 percent of them being females, have registered to work as volunteers at the 31st Southeast Asian Games, according to Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union of Hanoi (HCYU).

Young volunteers from Hanoi are ready for the biggest sports event in the Southeast Asia region. Photo: Hanoi Volunteer Community for SEA Games 31

These young volunteers are all in good health and fully vaccinated against Covid-19. They are also knowledgeable about Vietnamese culture, history, and people, as well as proficient in foreign languages.

They have already been trained by the Organizing Committee and are ready to perform any task assigned by the HCYU of Hanoi and the Organizing Committee of SEA Games 31 by the time of the Games.

In addition, The HCYU of Hanoi created a Facebook page for SEA Games 31’s volunteers at https://www.facebook.com/tnvseagames31hanoi, which frequently updates the capital city’s preparations for the Games. The channel has received 300,000 hits in the past week.

Over the past weeks, units of the Youth Union in Hanoi have held the “Volunteering Day of Saturday”, “Green Sunday”, “Green Traffic”, and “Thang Long-Hanoi Tourism Support Team”, among other activities to embellish streets, regulate traffic and support tourism events.

Themed “For a stronger South East Asia”, SEA Games 31 will run from May 12 to 23 in 12 provinces and cities throughout Vietnam, of which, Hanoi is the main host holding the opening and closing ceremonies of the SEA Games, sideline events and most of the competitions of the games.