A lot of interesting activities in the Cultural
Family Festival
Disseminating propaganda information to raise
people’s awareness of the prevention of domestic violence and construction of
cultural families has been paid a special attention to. In 2019, the sector has
equipped 26 cabinets, 572 books for 26 family clubs, and 330 uniforms like
shirts and hats for 66 groups of domestic violence prevention and control;
printed and published 5,000 handbooks to prevent and control domestic violence,
2,000 sets of documents to improve the activities of clubs and groups, 5,000
leaflets of “The set of Code of Conduct in families” for districts and cities,
changed the contents of 10 groups of banners, and hung nearly 3,000 banners and
propaganda flags on the occasion of the celebration; performed 10 game show
programs, 9 pieces of news on Dong Nai Radio and Television, 11 special pages on
Dong Nai newspaper in the field of families; organized 11 training courses on
family affairs, and distributed 1,300 documents.
In terms of the highlights in 2019, the whole sector
held a lot of activities such as “Happy Family” contest on the occasion of
International Happy Day, March 20; had the exchanges and festivals of Dong Nai
province’s outstanding cultural families in 2019 to welcome Vietnam’s Family Day
on June 28; Outstanding propagandist Contest for Project no. 279/QD-TTg; and so
on. Especially, this year, focuses on building cultural families and preventing
domestic violence through pre-marital education in various forms: building a
special column of “Family Counseling Corner” on the website of Department of
Culture, Sports and Tourism to maintain 24/24 activities and timely providing
information and legal advice on violence prevention and control; coordinating to
organize a seminar to prepare skills and give counseling on pre-marriage
psychology to more than 600 students of 9 universities and colleges in the
province in 2019; having exchanges on the occasion of the World Day of
Eliminating Violence against Women and Children in 2019 that attracted nearly
300 participants, who are mainly students with the participation of consultants.
Having exchanges and a Festival of Outstanding
Cultural Families of Dong Nai province
Currently, the province has 771 clubs of sustainable
development families, 991 groups preventing domestic violence, 59 clubs of “Men
say no to domestic violence”; 1,031 trusted community addresses; 171 points to
avoid domestic violence; and 104 cultural boarding houses that are recognized
throughout the province; the effective implementation of these models has made a
positive contribution to intervening and mediating family-related conflicts.
Particularly, domestic violence prevention and control groups and clubs of ‘Men
say no to domestic violence” have operated proactively and effectively and
become prestigious to people. The trusted addresses in the community have been
able to promote the effectiveness and the victims of domestic violence are
allowed to get into a shelter and receive counseling and support. As a result,
98.89% of households in the province have reached cultural family standards.
It is known that the provincial Department of
Culture, Sports and Tourism will conduct a review of the implementation of
documents and projects of family affairs of the government, Prime Minister and
Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in the province, thereby evaluating the
achieved results as well as the weaknesses and obstacles to make plans for and
putting forward practical solutions for further improving the construction of
cultural families and preventing of the province’s domestic violence in the
future.
Duy Minh (P. Nga)