Strengthening and unifying the organizational model of the Elderly Association

June 3, 2022 09:14

Within the Party's political system, the Vietnam Association of the Elderly (VAE) was established on May 10, 1995, with tens of millions of members nationwide. However, after nearly 30 years, the organization model of the association has not yet been unified.

Currently, there is only the Central Standing Committee of the Association, while at the provincial and district levels there is only the Representative Board. This problem has not been resolved for many years, affecting the direction and operation of the Association at all levels, limiting the dissemination and propaganda of policies, directives and resolutions from the Central to all levels and bases, and failing to promptly implement action programs to care for and promote the role of the elderly... This has also reduced the ability, experience and contribution of tens of millions of elderly members in the cause of building and protecting the country.

To overcome this limitation, at the 6th Congress of the Vietnam Association of the Elderly in 2021, delegates gave many opinions on the content of "urgently unifying the organization model of the association". Next, the leaders of the Vietnam Association of the Elderly and related ministries and branches submitted documents to competent authorities for approval of this project. Some localities have conducted a trial, the Ministry of Home Affairs also had a reference ballot for provinces and cities with the result of 50/63 localities agreeing. In fact, Bac Giang province (a locality close to Hai Duong) has applied the 4-level model of the Association of the Elderly for 10 years now and the achievements and results of the "Elderly Age - A Good Example" movement have clearly demonstrated its effectiveness...

As a province with an early emulation movement of “Exemplary grandparents and parents, filial children and kind grandchildren”, for many years in Hai Duong, the Representative Boards of the Association of the Elderly from the provincial to district levels have directed grassroots associations to maintain and develop activities to care for and promote the ability, experience and prestige of the elderly in socio-economic development. That has facilitated the activities of the Association of the Elderly.

To continue promoting the role and taking care of the elderly to a new level, the wish of the majority of the elderly is that the association needs to have a suitable and stable organizational model with enough scope in the local political and social system. It is necessary to have a deeper awareness of the social responsibility, role, potential... of the elderly. In the Party's documents as well as when talking about the elderly, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong always reminds that "the elderly are the nation's precious capital". With tens of thousands of elderly people in Hai Duong living in different areas, fields, and professions... there is truly great potential if we know how to exploit and promote them in socio-economic development. Therefore, once the organizational model of the Association of the Elderly is unified, strengthened, and transparent from top to bottom, all policies of the Party and State on caring for and promoting the role of the elderly as well as resolutions of the Central Association of the Elderly will be quickly put into practice, creating new changes contributing to the construction and development of Hai Duong to soon become a modern industrial province.

THE NGUYEN

(Provincial Senior Journalists Club)

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