Tet is far from home but warm with humanity in Da Nang

Workers' Tet away from home

The family of Ms. Nguyen Thi Chien - a worker at Hoa Cam Industrial Park - is also a single mother raising 2 young children. This year, it has been 4 years since Ms. Chien and her 3 children returned to their hometown in Quang Binh to celebrate Tet.

"My two children are of school age, so the cost of going to school and eating clothes is quite large. With my salary, I won't be able to spend enough for this Tet holiday," Ms. Chien confided.

Ms. Pham Thi Lien, from Quang Ninh province, is currently a worker in Hoa Cam Industrial Park and has not returned home for Tet with her family for the past 6 years.

"My eldest daughter is in her third year of university, the cost is high but the salary of workers is low. Each train trip cost nearly 2 million to leave, and there are also gifts for cakes for Tet. I thought it would take a while, so I stopped staying for a few years to take care of my child's education," Ms. Lien choked up.

The Union bus organized by the Da Nang City Labor Federation could not return to Quang Ninh, so workers like Ms. Lien had to sadly stay in Da Nang for another Tet holiday.

At the workers' housing area in Da Nang City (Cam Le District, Da Nang City), it is expected that more than 40 households will stay to celebrate Tet in Da Nang this Lunar New Year 2025.

Ensuring a warm and prosperous Tet for the people

On the occasion of the Lunar New Year 2025, the People's Committee of Da Nang City will visit and give gifts to people with meritorious services, relatives of meritorious people, social subjects, organizations, individuals and the Visitation and Offering Ceremony with a total cost of more than 126 billion VND.

Da Nang also supported the gift level (in cash) by 500,000 VND.

The city will support 1,000,000 VND in gifts (in cash) for workers, civil servants, and laborers in difficult circumstances, those who have suffered from work accidents, natural disasters, serious illnesses, and those who cannot return home for Tet; at the same time, support members of the Veterans Association for those with serious illnesses and difficult circumstances; members of the Thai Phien Club who are often sick; give gifts to the Truong Sa Corps.

The city's leaders will directly visit and present gifts to 50 units and localities, assigning departments and branches to visit and present gifts to 33 social protection facilities and mass organizations.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee (VFF) of Da Nang City will give Tet gifts to ethnic minority households in the three communes of Hoa Bac, Hoa Phu, and Hoa Ninh (in Hoa Vang district); support the gift of 500,000 VND from the city budget and gifts in kind of 200,000 VND from the Fund for the Poor for the three communes of Hoa Bac, Hoa Phu, and Hoa Ninh.

This year, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Da Nang City supported a gift (in cash) of VND 500,000 from the Fund for the Poor for groups of near-poor households, households in especially difficult circumstances, households in especially difficult circumstances and 100 gifts/ associations for members in difficult circumstances of 9 member organizations.