Streams and canals are no longer filled with trash; village roads and alleys are renovated to be clean and beautiful; many flower routes cared for by women are blooming... these are easily noticeable changes in Nà Tấu commune today. That spacious appearance is associated with the active participation of female members through environmental cleanup campaigns, mobilizing each household to raise awareness of preserving landscapes, and building a civilized lifestyle in residential areas.

Nguyễn Thị Hà, Chairwoman of the Nà Tấu commune Women’s Union, shared: Besides maintaining deployed models, the Union focuses on innovating methods to attract members to participate. Recently, responding to “Voluntary Saturday”, dozens of female members along with unions and mass organizations in the commune simultaneously went out to clean up the environment, cleaning village roads and public areas. With the participation of officials, civil servants, public employees, youth union members, and the people, many roads, alleys, and residential spots in the commune have become clearer, cleaner, and more beautiful.

Besides participating in building rural landscapes, women also play a core role in economic development. Through savings and loan groups and production linkage models, the Women’s Union has supported thousands of turns of members to access preferential capital sources, transfer science and technology, and build economic models suitable for local conditions. Many women have risen to do business well, creating jobs for local laborers, contributing to sustainable poverty reduction.

A typical example is the cooperative model of Phạm Thị Hà, Nậm Kè commune. Established in 2021, her cooperative selected a direction suitable for local conditions, focusing on developing two key products: roses and wax gourds. From organizing production according to processes and linking raw material areas to connecting product consumption in the Hanoi market, her cooperative has step-by-step affirmed its operational efficiency, becoming a stable consumption focal point for farmers in the area and neighboring regions.

Phạm Thị Hà said that after 4 years of operation, the unit has expanded the raw material area through production linkages with people in neighboring communes such as: Si Pa Phìn, Mường Chà. Parallel to consuming fresh agricultural products, the cooperative focuses on deep processing, developing tea products with indigenous flavors: “Far West Rose Tea,” “Far West Sappanwood Tea,” “Far West Wax Gourd Tea.” The products step-by-step affirmed quality, recognized as meeting OCOP standards, contributing to enhancing local agricultural product value.

From effective economic models, Women’s Unions at all levels in the province expanded support activities to difficult areas. The program “Accompanying women in border areas” deployed through many stages has become an important fulcrum helping women in border regions step-by-step stabilize their lives. In the 2021 - 2025 period alone, Women’s Unions at all levels coordinated with the border guard force to contribute over 7,000 working days, supporting 12,600 seedlings and breeding animals. Mobilizing 100 collectives with over 12,900 individuals to participate in self-managing nearly 400km of border lines, 98 collectives with over 13,000 individuals registering to manage 146 landmarks and 10 border works. In addition, 315 groups with over 2,000 members voluntarily undertook to maintain security and order in villages and hamlets.

Pờ Diệu Ninh, Chairwoman of the provincial Women’s Union, said that, in order to implement the program effectively, every year the provincial Women’s Union coordinates with the Border Guard Command and the provincial Military Command to direct Unions at all levels to promote dissemination of the Party’s guidelines and lines, and the State’s policies and laws on national border sovereignty; at the same time surveying reality, grasping members’ needs, selecting suitable livelihood models, and unifying deployment with local Party committees and authorities. The Union actively mobilizes organizations, individuals, and sponsors to join hands towards difficult border communes; encouraging poor members and women to promote internal strength, diligence, and creativity to rise up. From 2018 to now, the total funding mobilized for the program reached over VND 9 billion, of which support from Women’s Unions of other provinces and twinned units reached over VND 6 billion.

It can be said that the contributions of Women’s Unions at all levels in the province recently have contributed importantly to the work of building new-style rural areas and local socio-economic development. Through support activities, building economic models, lending capital, and accompanying women in difficult areas, in the 2021 - 2025 term, the whole province had over 10,600 households of women escaping poverty and near-poverty, and members’ lives were step-by-step raised.