The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCMYU) Central Committee willdiversify voluntary methods so as to make them suitable for eachtargeted group and focus on the combination of domestic andinternational voluntary activities.

This is oneof the orientations that the HCMYU Central Committee has set for thecoming time at a ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of thevoluntary youth movement held in HCM City on August 15.

Over the past ten years, young people nationwide have implemented 287youth village projects with more than 1,000 young families beingsettled, over 11,000 bridges and nearly 2,000 km of rural roads beingbuilt and upgraded.

On the same day, the municipalHCMYU reviewed its summer voluntary campaigns in 2010, which took placefrom June 1 to August 15 in 322 wards and communes in Ho Chi Minh City, 11 Central Highlands and southeastern provinces and the twoneighbouring countries of Laos and Cambodia .

More than 100,000 youths in the city set up 188 bookshelves with over18,000 book titles and provided free check-ups and medicines for over57,000 poor people as well as built 62 rural bridges worth 3.8 billionVND.

Through the summer voluntary campaigns, 58 youths have been admitted to the Communist Party of Vietnam.

During the fourth Festival of Volunteers 2010, the HCM City YouthFederation, the HCM City Students’ Association and the Youth newspaperjointly held a walk to raise funds for poor pupils. The walk, which drewthe participation of more than 5,000 youths, collected over 3.2 billionVND./.