The opening of the Thanh Nien (Youth) coffee shop early this year is the highly praised initiative taken by the Hoa Cuong Nam Ward Youth Union organisation in Da Nang’s Hai Chau District. The intention is to create a wonderful place for its members, and local young people as a whole, to informally meet with one another and have useful exchange activities, and offer part-time jobs for those in need as well.

The Thanh Nien coffee shop is a meaningful rendezvous for Youth Union members and local young people as a whole

The coffee shop is now located inside the Tien Son 9 Community House in Hoa Cuong Nam Ward. This shop is quite near residential areas, universities, junior colleges, government agencies and businesses, hereby facilitating to attract customers from all walks of life.

Secretary of Hoa Cuong Nam Ward Youth Union organisation Pham Thanh Vui said the coffee shop is well designed in a simple yet multi-functional manner so that it can offer coffee and other types of drinks at reasonable prices, and serves as an ideal place for holding meetings or get-togethers.

Apart from attracting Youth Union members and young people across the ward, the coffee shop has successfully appealed for music clubs, including one from the Nguyen Hien Senior High School, to organise music talent search contests and weekly relaxation activities. Thanks to this, in recent times, a more joyful and exciting ambience has been recorded at this inviting place.

Recently, 2 bookshelves serving the reading demand amongst young people have been put into use at this coffee shop.

In the near future, more books of different genres will be added to the existing bookshelves, especially many on studying and following late President Ho Chi Minh's moral example, the lives and careers of some celebrities, along with novels and books for children.

Currently, there are 4 Youth Union members working at the coffee shop receiving an average monthly salary of about 1.8 million VND each.

Secretary of the Hai Chau District Youth Union organisation Nguyen Thi Anh Thao highly praised this coffee shop model for bringing highly practical benefits, joys, and relaxations for youths across the district.

This place really helps to ensure close ties and linkages amongst Youth Union members and other young people through the organisation of various meetings, exchanges, and get-togethers right here.

In particular, in the coming time, more highly practical exciting activities will take place at this place in a bid to create an inviting, healthy rendezvous for the young.

The Hai Chau District Youth Union and Youth Federation organisations will continue to organise even more specialised training courses on startups at the Thanh Nien coffee shop, in an effort to help anyone who wants to pursue the tough yet highly interesting path of entrepreneurship.

In addition, activities featuring such necessary youth skills as semaphore, the handling of secret messages, and Morse code will be carried out.