Province’s leaders visited, gifted Cham community on Kate Festival 2022

The delegation included representatives of the provincial Party Committee’s Mass Mobilization Committee, provincial committee for Vietnam Fatherland Front, the committee for Ethnic Affairs (directly under the provincial people’s Council), the party committee and people’s committee of Bac Binh district.

The delegation visited and congratulated families of the Cham dignitaries, family of martyr Bo Xuan Hoi (Phan Hiep commune), the Cham royal families in Phan Thanh commune, along with the managing boards of hamlets Tinh My, Mai Lanh, and Tri Thai (Phan Thanh commune).

At visiting places, Mr. Nguyen Hoai Anh highly appreciated the significant role of the Cham dignitaries in dissemination of policies and guidelines of the central and local governments among the Cham Brahman people. He acknowledged that living conditions and income of many Cham households in Phan Hiep and Phan Thanh communes have gradually improved amid a lot of difficulties. Eventually, he warmly wished local people a joyful and peaceful Kate season.

On the same day, vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Minh also led a delegation of department of Internal Affairs and office of the provincial People’s Committee to visit present gifts to dignitaries and families of the Brahmanist followers in the Cham community in Phong Phu and Phu Lac communes (Tuy Phong district).

At the visiting places, vice Chairman Nguyen Minh lauded the contributions of Cham people to economic development in the locality. He also encouraged them to continuously implement the Party’s policies and the State’s laws, strengthen the great national solidarity bloc, and actively engage in socioeconomic development in the locality. He urged the local authorities to keep on paying attention to giving support to poor households in ethnic minority areas to ensure sustainable poverty reduction; mobilize residents to join hands in building new-style rural areas by planting green trees to create clean and green environment.

Mr. Minh also shared the joy with the Cham Brahman community in Binh Thuan as the Kate festival has been selected as a national intangible cultural heritage by Ministry of Culture-Sports and Tourism. This recognition has proved the Party and State’s care for the preservation and promotion of traditional cultural values of the Cham ethnic group, highlighting the pride and role of the Cham community in preserving and promoting specific characteristics of their traditional festivals. The delegation offered many gifts to the managing board of Tuy Tinh 2 hamlet, Po Nrop temple, and other dignitaries in Phu Lac commune. On that occasion, the Central Committee of Ethic Affairs granted 30 gifts portions (worth VND 15 million) to 30 poor households in Phu Lac commune.