
Lieutenant General Hoang Khanh Hung, President of the Association to Support the Families of Vietnamese Martyrs, shared at the conference – Photo: HA THANH
On September 8, the Vietnam Martyrs Families Support Association coordinated with the Vietnam Red Cross and the National Humanitarian Information Portal 1400 to hold a conference to evaluate the results of the texting program “Gratitude for Martyrs” 2023.
The conference report revealed that 2023 is the year with the highest number of texting participants compared to previous years. Accordingly, from June 23 to August 20, the texting program “Gratitude for the Martyrs” attracted more than 158,700 text messages with an amount of more than 3.1 billion VND.
Lieutenant General Hoang Khanh Hung – Chairman of the Association to Support the Families of Vietnamese Martyrs – shared that it not only draws material resources to complete the work of paying tribute to the martyrs, but also uses a lot of texting program. There is a deep meaning. Educate history, demonstrate our country’s moral principle of “drinking water, remember its source”, and express gratitude to compatriots and soldiers across the country to remember the sacrifice of generations of martyred heroes and martyrs Express.
Through the program, the objective is to raise funds for activities of gratitude and respect for the heroic martyrs, relatives of the martyrs’ families and the heroic Vietnamese mothers.
Lieutenant General Hung said that the money collected will be used to carry out practical, effective and meaningful activities ranging from DNA testing, giving houses, savings books and gifts to the families of martyrs and Vietnamese mothers, giving scholarships to the children of martyrs.
Delegates at the conference also shared experiences to effectively implement the text message program “Praise for Martyrs” in 2024.
Specifically, it is proposed that the distribution of funds for text message results should be carried out quickly with the integrated coordination of the three agencies, which can be divided into two phases: December 22 and the Lunar New Year; 30 April and 27 July.
At the same time, comprehensively coordinate with newspapers, radio and television agencies to promote text messaging, especially the three networks need to pay more attention and encourage customers to text.
The association also proposed that the Central Youth Union convene every union member and youth to participate and respond to one-on-one messages, and that socio-political organizations participate so that the texting program actually takes off and expands the form of communication. yes. Through…
12 years of implementation of the text message program “Praise for the Martyrs”
After 12 years of implementing the “Gratitude for the Martyrs” texting program, compatriots and soldiers across the country have donated nearly 10 billion VND.
All money collected through text messages, the association has used to support DNA testing, identify martyrs with missing information, save books, donate charity homes and gift policy families with refunds. Difficult situation.
In 2022, the program received more than 137,000 messages with an amount of more than 2.7 billion VND. From this amount, the association donated 20 gratitude houses to 20 families of martyrs who had housing difficulties, donated 300 savings books to martyrs’ families and Vietnamese heroic mothers, and donated 700 gifts to various places. Direction.

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