Deputy PM Dam joins youth in response to World Kindness Day

After the launching of the campaign at Hanoi’s Linh Dam Lake, the deputy PM, along with 500 Youth Union members and students from universities and colleges in Hanoi, cleared tree branches, collected garbage and cleaned up the environment around the lake.

The young people also encouraged locals in the area to improve awareness of the importance of environmental sanitation.

In the blue shirt of Vietnam’s Youth Volunteer movement, Deputy PM Vu Duc Dam (centre) joins students to clean Linh Dam Lake in response to World Kindness Day. Photo: dantri.com.vn

“Being Kind to the Environment” is one of a number of activities in response to World Kindness Day, and within the overall campaign the “Dance for Kindness” held on Sunday in Hanoi and many other cities across the country helped to spread the campaign’s message of kindness.

In addition to encouraging kindness among people in general, the campaign focuses on the environmental theme with practical activities to connect young people and raise public awareness of protecting land, water, air and all things belonging to the natural world.

Through the programme, the organising board expressed its wish that young people and the community would be more aware of their roles and responsibilities in protecting the environment and working together to build a green, clean and beautiful country. “Let’s Love and Protect the Environment” and “Let’s Try to Be Kind to the Environment” were the main themes.

“Being Kind to the Environment” has attracted the participation of hundreds of youngsters. Photo: dantri.com.vn

As one of the first senior officials to keep a close watch on the activities of the campaign, Deputy PM Dam expressed his wish that the youth would become more interested in acts of kindness and multiply them in the community.

According to him, activities on protecting the environment should be held regularly in order to form a good habit among the youth.

He suggested that each student encourage his family members to regularly classify waste and form a habit of environmental protection.

Celebrities join youngsters in Hanoi in the “Dance for Kindness” campaign on November 13. Photo: tienphong.vn

On the same day, the Dance for Kindness 2016 campaign was held simultaneously in the four major cities of Hanoi, Da Nang, Vinh and Ho Chi Minh City, featuring FreezeMob and FlashMob dances, as well as activities of kindness towards the environment.

As part of the programme, a children’s painting exhibition with the theme “Kindness in the Eyes of Children” was also held. The entire amount of paintings’ sold at the event will be used to support locals in the central region suffering from natural disasters.

After three years of being observed in Vietnam, the “Dance for Kindness” has spread from Hanoi to other cities, with an increasing number of participants of many ages.