Youth for Environmental Action

Update: 05/06/2013
Responding to the World Environment Day on 5 June, in the city of Da Lat (Lam Dong province), the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union in collaboration with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment launched a program titled "Youth for environmental action."

The main objective of the program is to raise the awareness and responsibility of youth and children in environment protection and responding to climate change.  Besides, calling for young people to actively participate in environmental protection, the program also organized many other activities such as planting thousands of trees on the campus of the University of Da Lat and Da Lat Teachers Training College. In addition, Youth Union members delivered free of charge 1,000 environmentally friendly baskets at Dalat, La Son Phu Tu and Chi Lang markets, cleaned streets in the center of Da Lat city and organized communication skills training on environmental protection and climate change adaptation.