On June 28, the Party Committee - People's Council - People's Committee - Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Cho Lon Ward (HCMC) organized a launching ceremony for a series of activities to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Saigon - Gia Dinh City officially named after President Ho Chi Minh (July 2, 1976 - July 2, 2026).
The series of activities aims to promote the spirit of solidarity and responsibility of the government and people in building a civilized and modern locality, and at the same time promote social security activities.
Right at the launching ceremony, the organizers presented 200 gifts, each worth 500,000 VND, to regular social protection households and households that have just escaped the near-poverty standard according to the multidimensional poverty standard of Ho Chi Minh City in the period 2021 - 2025.
After the launching ceremony, many activities were deployed simultaneously in 30 neighborhoods such as general environmental sanitation, street and alley renovation, apartment buildings, handling of garbage accumulation points and clearing bushes to improve the urban landscape and raise environmental awareness in the community.
In the field of healthcare, the "Green - Clean - Safe Hospital" project is being implemented at Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital with renovation and cleaning activities for the premises. In addition, the "Cho Lon meaningful - Joining hands for community health" health check-up program for the 2nd time in 2026 organizes free check-ups, consultations, medicine distribution and gifts worth 1 million VND for 500 people who are elderly people, households in difficult circumstances and policy beneficiaries.
The team of doctors and physicians of Ho Chi Minh City University Medical Center Hospital directly conduct health check-ups at the gathering point. For cases of old age or difficulty walking, staff of the Ward Health Station come to their homes for examination, consultation and health monitoring.
On this occasion, Cho Lon ward also launched the Ho Chi Minh Cultural Space at Cho Lon Mosque with a system of images, documents, books and QR codes to serve people to learn about Ho Chi Minh's life, career, ideology, morality, and style.
