Land owners in Nam Dan district, Nghe An province, have voluntarily given up some of their land to benefit their community.
Land plot that Veteran Hoa\'s family has donated to road construction
These good deeds come at a time when land prices across the province are sharply increasing yet many felt that their land would be best used for building rural roads and other public works.
More than 800 households in Nam Nghia commune provided a total 100,000 square metres of land to be used for road construction. Many of them even destroyed walls, cow cages and gates, worth a combined VND700 million (USD 35,000), for the same purpose.
Tran Quang Hoa, an 80-year old veteran in Hamlet No. 9 of the commune, said his family offered 160 square metres of garden land towards road construction. He is a pioneer in the local land contribution campaign and has encouraged his children, relatives and neighbors to do the same.
Many other families in the commune also gave part of their fields and even contributed money to building roads.
Thanks to the donation, Nam Nghia commune has built 11 kilometres of inter-village roads, raising its total number of asphalted roads to 18 kilometres which facilitates farmers production activities.
Chairman of the the Nam Nghia People\'s Committee, Nguyen Quang Dung said, “A large number of local households actively responded to the land grant campaign, therefore, most local villages have asphalted roads seven metres wide.”
Other outstanding examples can be found at Van Dien commune where a 63 year-old veteran, Nguyen Van Toan, gave up some 400 square metres to build a cultural house.
At the beginning, Toan said he faced opposition from his family members who wanted to keep the land. However, with a soldier’s mentality that things should be for the good of the community, he decided to turn over the land over to the local authority.
A local tells a Dan Tri reporter about the land grant given by hundreds of households in Nam Nghia
Asphalted roads thanks to voluntary land contribution.
Veteran Nguyen Dinh Toan stands in front of the cultural house
The cultural house is built on a 400-square metre site wholly donated by Toan
Currently, there are no longer pathways in Nam Nghia, giving way to asphalted roads built thanks to land contributions from local people.
