Bringing Children's Day to children in quarantine

Comrade Nguyen Trong Hung, Deputy Commander, Chief of Staff of the Provincial Military Command, presented gifts to children quarantined at Regiment 125.

Make your own gift for your friend

Since the afternoon of May 30, Nguyen Tran Dieu Chi, 9 years old, a student at An Thuong Primary School (Hai Duong City) has been eagerly making beautiful cards with her mother to give to her friends in the centralized quarantine area on Children's Day. Teacher Tran Thi Ngan, Team Leader of An Thuong Primary School, Chi's mother, shared that as soon as she heard her mother say she was making cards to give to her friends, Chi was very excited and asked her mother to let her do it too. On May 30, the mother and daughter stayed up until after midnight to make cards. By May 31, the mother and daughter had finished making 15 beautiful cards with many meaningful wishes such as "Wishing you good health, happiness, and overcoming the pandemic together", "Not only on International Children's Day, I hope you are happy, healthy, obedient, and full of love every day", "Wishing you a June 1 holiday full of joy, health, and good behavior. Let's work together to overcome the pandemic"... Helping her mother draw, cut, paste flowers and leaves, and write meaningful wishes on cards to send to friends in the concentrated quarantine area, Chi was very happy. "I feel very happy to send my love and encouragement to my friends. I hope those wishes can give them more strength to overcome difficulties and maintain their spirit to overcome the pandemic", Chi said.

The cards made by Ms. Ngan and her daughter are part of a gift-giving program for 62 children who are in centralized quarantine and blockade in Hai Duong City, supported and donated by the Hai Duong Youth Union. At noon on June 1, 62 gifts including cakes, candies, milk, hand sanitizer, etc. with a total value of more than 16 million VND were delivered to 52 students in centralized quarantine and 10 students who are under blockade in Goc Mit hamlet, Tran Phu ward. Despite the extremely hot weather, the gifts followed the volunteers to the centralized quarantine area and Goc Mit hamlet to give to the children there.

Concerned levels and sectors

Since May 18, Nguyen Anh Tuan (7 years old) and his younger brother (4 years old) have been living with their grandparents in Goc Mit hamlet, Tran Phu ward, where the residential area is under lockdown. Receiving gifts on this occasion, Tuan and his brother are very excited. "This year, I cannot go out for Children's Day like every year because the whole area is under lockdown. Today, I am very happy to receive the gifts that the uncles and aunts sent me. I hope to return to my parents soon," Tuan said.

Previously, on the afternoon of May 29, the Hai Duong City Red Cross also presented nearly 150 gifts including milk, milk tea, jelly, etc. to nearly 150 students who are being quarantined at Lien Hong, Hai Tan and Thanh Binh Kindergartens. On the morning of June 1, the Hai Duong City Women's Union presented more than 100 gifts worth more than 20 million VND to more than 100 students who are being locked down and quarantined at Thanh Binh Kindergarten, Tu Minh Kindergarten, Hai Duong University, Goc Mit hamlet, Pham Hong Thai street, Nhi Chau ward.

On the morning of June 1, leaders of the Provincial Military Command visited and presented 13 gifts (each worth VND500,000) to children quarantined at Regiment 125 (Chi Linh). These are children who returned from Korea and have been quarantined at Regiment 125 since May 17.

On the same afternoon, the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs organized a delegation to deliver gifts to 45 children who are being quarantined at the following kindergartens: Tan Hung, Tu Minh, Hoa Thuy Tien, Thanh Binh and the dormitory of Hai Duong University. The delegation gave each quarantine location a gift box worth 2 million VND. These gifts will be delivered to the children by the staff at the quarantine location.

Many children were very happy to receive gifts for Children's Day. Pham Thi Yen Chi (a student at Vo Thi Sau Secondary School), who is in concentrated quarantine at Hai Tan Kindergarten, shared: "In this concentrated quarantine area, I have friends and teachers living with me, so even though I am far from my family, I am not sad. I am very happy to receive gifts and meaningful messages from the cards. I hope that my friends will try to comply with the regulations and soon be released from the quarantine and blockade area to return to their parents."

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