YBO - The Women's Entrepreneurs Association in Yen Bai province has 218 members divided into five clubs, including Yen Bai City Club, Muong Lo Club (Nghia Lo), Co Phuc Town Club (Tran Yen), Mai Son Club (Luc Yen) and Yen Binh Club.
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Yen Bai Province Women’s Entrepreneurs Association donated money to the COVID-19 Vaccine Fund.
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Club members engage in trading, services, transportation, restaurants, hotels, construction consulting and design, industrial production, agriculture, fashion business, education and banking sectors.
They always promote the advantages of dynamic and creative industries and businesses, orienting the development of the production towards effective expansion with revenue and profit meeting the designed target and even achieving higher results in comparison with the previous year.
Last year alone, women-owned enterprises had total revenue of more than 3.3 trillion VND (145.7 million USD), contributed 22.5 billion VND to the State budget, created jobs and good income for more than two thousand workers including nearly 1,000 female ones.
The club members have actively participated in charity activities and social security work. Every year, the association supports between three and five "houses of gratitude" for families of women with difficult circumstances in the locality. Between 45-50 packages of gifts are given to disadvantaged families in Yen Bai city and neighbouring communes a month.
The association also provides free meals for patients at Tran Yen District Medical Center and Yen Bai Provincial Psychiatric Hospital; organises "zero-dong stalls" for disadvantaged communes in remote areas; supported women in developing their household economy by donating medicinal plant varieties and breeding animals. Twenty-five cows and fifteen goats as well as 10,000 seedlings of khoi nhung, a medicinal plant that can be used for the treatment of gastritis and allergies, have been presented. The association hands over gifts to disadvantaged students on the occasion of the new school year; giving warm clothes to high school students, taking care of the heroic Vietnamese mother and participating in natural disaster relief programmes.
In particular, it maintains presenting monthly scholarships for 12 disadvantaged students, who have outstanding academic achievement, worth 18 million VND per month under the "Lighting for the Future” programme founded by the association.
In 2020 and 2021, when the outbreak of COVID-19 causes difficulties for production and business activities, the association was the pioneer in supporting pandemic prevention and control and mobilised women to assist pandemic-affected provinces and cities such as Bac Giang, Ho Chi Minh City and Binh Duong. It donated 30 million VND to the provincial COVID-19 Vaccine Fund. The total amount of contribution during the pandemic is up to 1.8 billion VND.
Bui Thi Suu
On January 16, the Yen Bai Provincial Labor Federation organized the 2025 "Tet Sum Vay" program under the theme “Tet Sum Vay – Spring of Gratitude to the Party,” aiming to encourage, support, and care for union members and workers in Luc Yen District.
In 2024, the total value of activities conducted by the Red Cross Society of Yen Bai Province exceeded 86 billion VND, benefiting 230,105 individuals.
Luc Yen District has recently have two additional communes, Dong Quan and Khanh Hoa, officially recognized by the Yen Bai Provincial People's Committee as meeting the criteria for new rural standards (Nông Thôn Mới - NTM) in 2024.
According to tradition, the Hmong community’s traditional Tet typically takes place one month before the Lunar New Year. This period marks the end of the harvest season, allowing everyone to rest after a year of hard work. Nowadays, most Hmong people celebrate the Lunar New Year alongside the rest of the nation.
