In recent years, people in Cong Hoa Ward, Quang Yen Town has been familiar with the program in which women collect scraps and sell to help poor women buy health insurance.
Local women collect all kinds of scraps from plastic bottles, carton boxes, old pans, tin cans, and plastic containers to torn slippers in their houses and bring them to the community houses. These scraps are then classified into plastic, metal or bottles for selling. A sum of money generated from selling will be extracted to buy health insurance for poor and ill women, thus sharing a part of economic burden in their life.
Thanks to the improvement in rural environmental protection in recent years and the establishment of Women Club with Law in the locality, living environment in Cong Hoa Ward - naturally agricultural land - has changed significantly. Local women join hands in tidying up roads and clear bushes on every Sunday. From only 7 people at the early establishment, the membership of the club has increased to 60 ranging from 20-70 years old.
The club members not only take part in environmental protection activities but also taking care of each other, sharing difficulties in life, and building cultural residential areas. Cong Hoa Ward is considered as one of 3 communes and wards which effectively carry out the movement of “turning trash into money”. To date, Quang Yen Town collected an amount of 19 million VND in total from the movement.
Translated by Quynh Trang
