During the 2018 summer volunteer campaign between July and September, a total of over 800 students from the member schools of the University of Da Nang (UDN) became actively involved in various charitable and social activities in remote and mountainous areas in Da Nang, Quang Nam and Kom Tum provinces, and Salavan Province of Laos.

Youth Union members from the Da Nang University of Economics teaching poor pupils in Ta Poo Commune, Nam Giang District, Quang Nam Province

During the period, the focus was on presenting gifts to poor families, repairing houses of social policy families, upgrading rural roads, dredging canals, and installing lighting systems.

In addition, the student volunteers enthusiastically helped farmers access advanced farming technologies. In particular, they transferred automatic ‘trun que’, commonly known as composting worms or blues, raising system to residents in Hoa Vang District’s Hoa Bac Commune, and offered purple oyster mushroom seeds and growing technologies to residents in Quang Nam Province’s Duy Xuyen District.

Special attention was paid to designing a website to advertise ecotourism model in Hoa Vang District’s Hoa Bac Commune, making video clips and creating tourism publications about tourist sites in Quang Nam Province’s Nam Giang District, and decorating embankment in Quang Ngai Province’s Ly Son Islands with murals.

In addition to the above-mentioned localities, the young volunteers from Da Nang carried out voluntary work in Laos.

After the collapse of the Sepien-Senamnoi hydropower dam in Attapeu Province, Laos, on 23 July, a group of members of Da Nang’s Youth Union (YU), including young doctors and nurses, came to this affected locality to offer free medical examinations and medicines to local residents.

Mr Nguyen Minh Huy, Secretary of the UDN’s YU oragnisation, remarked this year’s campaign, which took ‘The Youth from the University of Da Nang are Creative and Volunteer for the Community’ as its theme, attracted the participation of a large number of university students, and left a deep impression on local residents.

He added the campaign helped to promote the spirit of volunteerism amongst univerisity students, and it was considered a good environment for them to train, dedicate and mature.