Various activities and initiatives will be organized across Hanoi to celebrate Vietnam Youth Month, an annual celebration held in March to commemorate the 93rd anniversary of the founding of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union [March 26, 1931-2024].

According to Chu Hong Minh, secretary of the Hanoi Youth Union, the aim is to encourage young people to engage in constructive activities, develop leadership skills and contribute to developing their communities and the nation as a whole," he said.

The month-long event is dedicated to promoting and empowering the country's youth, seen as Vietnam's future, Minh stressed, adding that volunteer activities among union members, youth and children in Hanoi have recently become regular.

Young people in Hanoi carry out many practical activities to protect the environment and build urban civilization. Photo: The Hanoi Times

"With the theme "Capital Youth Volunteer for Community Life", it is expected that Youth Month 2024 will involve at least 10,000 union members and youth in volunteer activities for community life and social security," Minh said.

He cited that Hanoi youth has carried out about 1,400 projects to demonstrate the spirit of dedication, volunteering for difficult and new tasks, and building urban civilization.

"The capital's youth will build and maintain more than 400 civilized street projects with the criteria of 'Bright - Green - Clean - Beautiful - Civilized - Safe'; decorate and beautify more than 150 relics, nearly 1,000 electric cabinets; renovate and build hundreds of new friendly toilets and children's playgrounds in schools and residential areas," Minh said.

According to Nguyen Duc Tien, Deputy Secretary of the Hanoi Youth Union and Chairman of the Vietnam Youth Union, the capital's youth have been more creative with new models in addition to effective activities in recent times.

"Remarkably, the capital's youth have actively undertaken thousands of projects and volunteer work. Models of murals, flowering electric poles, youth flower gardens... are still being replicated. These activities help communicate to people to dispose of garbage in the right places and classify waste," Tien said.

On March 17, the Hanoi Youth Union joined to build new rural areas and Green Sunday in the Gia Lam District. This is an activity in response to the first national Green Sunday in 2024 to celebrate the 93rd anniversary of the founding of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union.

On this occasion, the Hanoi Youth Union actively carried out volunteer activities such as planting, caring and protecting trees, classifying waste at source, launching a campaign to limit plastic waste, distributing plastic and recycling bags, and organizing a "trash for gifts" program, among others.

Green Sunday has helped to raise awareness of environmental protection among youth union members, young people, and all city residents. It is also an opportunity to bring young people together to keep the capital bright, green, clean and beautiful.

In particular, the creativity of young people in Hanoi in using information technology to digitize street information has won the support of Party committees, authorities and local people. They have digitized information on 10 streets named after famous people. Just below the street name sign is an additional panel with information and a QR code. The information is presented in bilingual Vietnamese-English, which is convenient for people and tourists to look up.