Policeman wins National Volunteer Service Award 2021

Lieutenant Duong Hai Anh, a traffic police officer from the Moc Chau District Police Station in Son La province, is one of the winners of the National Volunteer Service Award 2021. The award is to honor teams and individuals with outstanding voluntary activities and practical contributions to society.

As the Secretary of the Moc Chau District Police Youth Union chapter, Lieutenant Hai Anh creatively conducted voluntary projects to support the local community, including the “Nuôi Em” (Children's Nurture) project.

He realized that, though Moc Chau is a tourist attraction, many children in border villages of the district still do not have enough food and clothing. To support disadvantaged local children to go to school, Hai Anh mobilized his friends and relatives to aid them. He also developed a website to spread the significance of the project and called on more benefactors to join his projects to support local children.

According to Lieutenant Hai Anh, he often goes to local schools to list students from poor family and offer them some assistance.

Over the past two years, the “Nuôi Em” project in Moc Chau has provided free meals to 1,698 children in all disadvantaged communes, with the total costs of VND 2.4 billion.

This December, the project has planned to provide meals to some 500 children in various communes of Van Ho and Moc Chau districts. In addition, the project "Winter clothes for children" launched December 6 will provide more than 1,300 warm jackets and 4,000 pairs of socks to local children.

Hai Anh regularly donates his blood to the local hospital, give books and explain laws to local children.

For his contributions to the community, he was awarded 5 Certificates of Merit of all kinds. He also received a letter from the Minister of Public Security praising his excellent achievements in the movement “Young policemen studying and following Uncle Ho’s six teachings”.