On April 22, the Ministry of Education and Training organized a signing ceremony of emulation movement “Building friendly schools and active students” for the period of 2009 – 2013 in coordination with the Vietnam Women’s Union and the Learning Promotion Association. Taking part in this ceremony are representatives of the Central Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union.

Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) founded in 1930 is a socio-political organization which is mandated to protect the legal rights and legitimate interests of women in Vietnam. In the history of its development, particularly since DOI MOI (Renovation), VWU has taken various measures such as vocational training, loans providing, awareness raising, and technical transferring, ect. to help women in poverty alleviation for their livelihood improvement and social status enhancement. To realize its missions, besides internal resources, VWU also mobilized and made use of international support from donors (GOs and NGOs) including Marie Schlei Association (Germany).

On April 21, 2009, the Vice President of Vietnam Women’s Union, Hoang Thi Ai Nhien, warmly received the delegation of the RCD Party of Tunisia headed by Mme. Hager Chérif Chebil, the Deputy General Secretary in charge of Foreign Affairs, on their working visit to VWU.

From April 14-19, 2009, a VWU delegation headed by Mrs. H’Ngam Nie KDam, VWU Vice President, and 16 members (including representatives from VWU departments/agencies and some centres for International marriages Supporting and Counseling) paid a study visit to some provinces of Korea.

On March 30th 2009, President of Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa received the Norwegian working group on partnership between Vietnam and Norway for gender equality

On March 26th 2009, Mrs. H’Ngam Nie K’Dam, Vice-President of the Vietnam Women’s Union conferred the Merit Medal “For the Development of Women in Vietnam” to 8 individuals who have contributed substantially to the cause of women and children health care and health protection.

On the afternoon 2nd February, 2009, in central VWU, Madame Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa, Member of Central Party Committee, President of VWU has welcomed scholars and Russian enterprises leading by Professor University of St. Peterburge, Mr Zaznobin Vladimir Mikhalovic, on the occasion to visit Vietnam to explore investment opportunities and development of partners in economics, finance and trade.

A forum on co-operative relations in deploying a progarmme on assisting poor districts was organised by the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Welfare in Hanoi on March 18.

The Vietnam Women’s Union is very happy to be informed that the VIII National Women’s Congress of the Cuban Women’s Union was ended successfully and comrade YOLANDA FERRER GOMEZ was re-selected as General Secretary of Cuban Women’s Union.

At the invitation of the Korean Democratic Women’s Union, Mme Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa, member of the Vietnam Party Central Committee, president of the Vietnam Women’s Union led the Vietnamese Women’s delegation to pay a friendship visit to Korea during 23-27 Feb, 2009.