Tan Lac districts Youth Union helps promote startups among young people

The Youth Union of Tan Lac district has organised practical activities to support local youths in developing and expanding business activities, contributing to promoting startups models in the locality.

Youth union members of Gia Mo commune in Tan Lac district have been supported in accessing preferential loans to develop grapefruit growing models.

In May, a young farm club comprising 10 members was launched in Phu Vinh commune, which offers more opportunities for local youths to collect knowledge and access capital sources and support channels to realise their startups.

The club has also created a healthy environment, and enhanced connection and mutual support between local young people.

In order further expand the startups movement among the local youth union’s members and young people, the district’s Youth Union has promoted the dissemination of guidelines and policies of the Party and State, the support of sectors for young startups.

Attention has been paid to updating potential and strengths in economic development to help young people determine directions for starting their business.

The district has nearly 1,800 young people from nearly 160 youth union establishments. Since 2020, the district’s Youth Union has enhanced training activities to equip local youths with knowledge on economic development, and information related to the One Commune, One Product (OCOP) programme.

Career and enrollment counseling activities, and job introduction have been also carried out in local schools.

Tan Lac district has witnessed the increasing number of typical economic development models with stable income run by youth union members, such as a grapefruit cultivation model of Mr. Dinh Van Tai in Don hamlet, My Hoa commune; a seedling nursery model of Mr. Bui Van Tuong in Sung 2 hamlet, Thanh Hoi commune; and a red-flesh grapefruit cultivation model of Ms. Bui Minh Anh in Bui Doi hamlet, Nhan My commune.

In the coming time, the district’s Youth Union will continue to implement practical activities and take measures to remove difficulties facing local young people in accessing capital for production and science and technology, and seeking markets for their products, towards creating the most favourable conditions for young people to implement their ideas.