Dong Nai Youth launched the campaign "Make the world cleaner" and "Green Sunday"

(DN) - On the morning of September 21, in Chon Thanh ward, Dong Nai Provincial Youth Union coordinated with the Vietnam Youth Union of the province to organize the launching ceremony of the campaign to Make the world cleaner and the 6th Green Sunday in 2025. This is one of the practical activities of the province's youth to welcome the 1st Congress of Dong Nai Provincial Party Committee, term 2025-2030.

Báo Đồng Nai•21/09/2025

Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Youth Union Nguyen Tran Phuong Ha, representatives of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission, the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee, leaders of Chon Thanh Ward People's Committee and a large number of union members, youth and people in Chon Thanh Ward attended the launching ceremony.

Delegates attending the launch ceremony. Photo: Ngoc Huyen

The Clean Up the World campaign is an initiative launched by the United Nations Environment Programme in 1993, which has now spread to more than 180 countries with the participation of hundreds of millions of people, calling on the community to act together for a green, clean and safe living environment. Vietnam officially joined the campaign in 1994 and every year it is deployed in the third week of September with many meaningful activities such as: planting trees, collecting waste, fighting plastic waste, protecting the ecosystem and responding to climate change.

Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Youth Union Nguyen Tran Phuong Ha spoke at the launching ceremony. Photo: Ngoc Huyen

Speaking at the launching ceremony, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Youth Union Nguyen Tran Phuong Ha affirmed: Implementing the Project " Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union of Dong Nai province participates in environmental protection and climate change response", in recent times, the Provincial Youth Union Standing Committee has deployed to all levels of the Youth Union from the province to the grassroots to promote the organization of activities on environmental protection, tree planting, forestation, environmental landscape improvement, and climate change response. Through movements and activities, it has contributed to solving environmental pollution problems in the locality and associated with propaganda and mobilization of union members, youth, and the masses to implement environmental criteria in building advanced new rural areas and urban civilization.

In particular, responding to the movement "For a green Vietnam" and the project "Planting one billion trees in the period of 2021-2025" in Dong Nai province, hundreds of thousands of trees have been newly planted and cared for in vacant land, bare hills, rapidly urbanizing areas, industrial parks, schools, armed forces units, etc. Thereby contributing to the number of newly planted more than 25 million trees in the whole province compared to the target of 20 million trees set out in the project.

The Provincial Youth Union Standing Committee presented a symbolic plaque of 1,000 trees and 70 source-sorted trash bins to Chon Thanh ward. Photo: Ngoc Huyen

Within the framework of the program, the Provincial Youth Union Standing Committee presented 1,000 trees and 70 waste sorting bins to support the locality in environmental protection and climate change response; and presented 20 gifts, each worth 750,000 VND to families of former youth volunteers, people with revolutionary contributions and policy families in Chon Thanh ward.

Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Youth Union Nguyen Tran Phuong Ha and leaders of Chon Thanh ward presented gifts to families of former youth volunteers, families with revolutionary contributions and policy families of the ward. Photo: Ngoc Huyen

Giving trash bins to households in Chon Thanh ward. Photo: Ngoc Huyen

Immediately after the launching ceremony, union members and young people participated in activities responding to the campaign such as: consulting and checking people's health; exchanging trash for gifts; planting trees at Chu Van An A High School, Chon Thanh Ward...

FPT Long Chau Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Company cooperated with the youth union to conduct health check-ups and give gifts to people in Chon Thanh ward. Photo: Ngoc Huyen