Apart from fulfilling their assigned tasks of protecting the nation’s sovereignty over its sea and islands and ensuring political security and social safety in local coastal areas, Da Nang’s border guards have also been actively involved in various social and charitable activities.

Over the past 3 years, the city’s border guards have appealed for donations from local businesses and organisations to present 12 motorcycles, 9 bicycles, 6 fish mills and 5 wooden cabinets to very poor families in Thanh Khe District.  In addition, scholarships have been awarded to 45 of the district’s poor studious pupils at a total value of over 350 million VND.  In addition, 16 breeding cows and 12 breeding pigs, worth more than 250 million VND, have been given to other needy families in the city.

The city’s Border Guard Women’s Union presenting gifts to poor women in Hoa Hiep Nam Ward

In response to the ‘Each Group and Each Individual Helps a Disadvantaged Person’ campaign launched by the Vietnam Red Cross Society in 2008, the local border guards have, to date, donated over 200 million VND to 15 disadvantaged people in Lien Chieu District’s Hoa Hiep Nam Ward.

Under the national Month for the Poor 2015 campaign, the city’s Border Guard Women’s Union presented gifts last month, worth 500,000 VND each, to 10 poor women in Hoa Hiep Nam Ward. 

In addition to helping local poor people, the city’s border guards have joined efforts with local departments, agencies and organisations to help and encourage over 78 pupils who had dropped out of school due to poverty to return to their schools.  Finally, 118 charity houses and 2 sanitation facilities, at a total cost of over 3 billion VND, have been built for local poor families.