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title: How to Carry Out the Self Help Program for the Hamlet People
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/how-to-carry-out-self-help-program-hamlet-people-1966/
description: Sheet SP-1876 sets out 'Ten Steps' for a village self-help project, from stating the need and the villagers' will to proceed through approval
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# How to Carry Out the Self Help Program for the Hamlet People

Sheet SP-1876 sets out 'Ten Steps' for a village self-help project, from stating the need and the villagers' will to proceed through approval by the provincial Rural Construction council, release of materials, building, handover, use and upkeep. A large province map carries symbols for schools, roads, bridges, markets, dams and dispensaries, with photographs of a market, a road, a bridge and a well. The tell: a step-by-step procedure presents the programme as the villagers' own, with the government as helper.

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## Text on the object

Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
PHƯƠNG CÁCH THỰC HIỆN CHƯƠNG TRÌNH TỰ TÚC
CHO THÔN ẤP ĐỒNG BÀO

MƯỜI BƯỚC TIẾN
CHO CHƯƠNG TRÌNH DỰ ÁN TỰ TÚC

1. NHU CẦU - Mỗi ấp có một hay nhiều dự án ưu tiên cần thiết để cải thiện kinh tế hay xã hội của cộng đồng (đại chúng)
2. NGUYỆN VỌNG - Dân phải muốn đảm nhận dự án, trước tiên là dùng ngay tài sản, sự khéo léo và nhân công của mình.
3. LẬP ĐỒ ÁN - Chủ tịch xã hay ấp trưởng lập đồ án với sự giúp đỡ của các ty sở chuyên môn cùng với ý kiến bổ túc của dân chúng.
4. ĐỆ ĐƠN - Đơn và đồ án đầy đủ sẽ chuyển đi qua ấp, xã quận đến hội đồng Xây Dựng Nông Thôn tỉnh.
5. CHẤP THUẬN - Hội đồng X.D.N.T. Tỉnh khảo sát, sửa đổi. Chấp thuận hoặc từ khước đơn xin.
6. XUẤT KHO - Vật liệu trợ giúp từ nhà kho Toà Hành Chánh sẽ được xuất kho khi nào dân chúng đã sẵn sàng bắt đầu công việc.
7. XÂY CẤT - Dân chúng bắt đầu dự án công tác ngay, khi nhận vật liệu với sự trông coi thích đáng ccua ty sở chuyên môn.
8. LỄ CHUYỂN GIAO - Sau khi hoàn tất, dự án sẽ được chấp nhận giữa Hội Đồng X.D.N.T. và nhân viên thôn xã.
9. XỬ DỤNG - Bất cứ dự án nào do dân chúng ao ước, lập đồ án và xây cất họ đều được quyền xử dụng.
10. GÌN GIỮ - Bất cứ một dự án công tác nào do dân chúng xây cất và giúp ích thường nhật cho đời sống cộng đồng đều cần được giữ gìn, chăm sóc, tu bổ thường xuyên

Bản đồ này chỉ những cố gắng của dân chúng trong công việc kiện toàn các điều kiện kinh tế và xã hội do chính họ đảm trách trong chương trình Dự Án Tự Túc 1966- như là :
- Trường học - Chợ Búa
- Kiều Lộ - Đê Đập
- Cầu Cống - BệnhXá, Hộ sinh
Hãy thảo luận các vấn đề của quí vị và lợi dụng các điểm hữu ích của năm qua cho chương trình dự án tự túc trong năm 1967.
Xã ấp của quí vị có thể hy vọng sự giúp đỡ của chính quyền trong mỗi dự án của quí vị đề xướng.

Chợ đang xây tại quận Hương-Thủy
1 cây số đường sửa chữa tại quận Hoà-Vang
Chiếc cầu hoàn tất tại quận Hương-Thủy
Giếng nước cho đồng bào tỵ nạn tại quận Phong-Điền

[Map labels not transcribed]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
METHOD OF CARRYING OUT THE SELF-HELP PROGRAMME FOR THE HAMLETS AND VILLAGES OF THE PEOPLE

TEN STEPS FOR THE SELF-HELP PROJECT PROGRAMME

1. NEED - Each hamlet has one or more priority projects needed to improve the community's (the public's) economy or society.
2. WILL - The people must want to undertake the project, first of all by immediately using their own property, skill and labour.
3. DRAWING UP THE PLAN - The village chairman or hamlet chief draws up the plan with the help of the specialist offices, together with the people's supplementary views.
4. SUBMITTING THE APPLICATION - The application and full plan are passed through the hamlet, village and district to the provincial Rural Construction council.
5. APPROVAL - The provincial Rural Construction council examines and amends. It approves or rejects the application.
6. RELEASE FROM STORE - Supporting materials from the administrative office's warehouse are released when the people are ready to begin work.
7. BUILDING - The people begin the project work at once, on receiving the materials, under proper supervision of the specialist offices.
8. HANDOVER CEREMONY - After completion, the project is accepted between the Rural Construction council and the village staff.
9. USE - Any project that the people wished for, planned and built, they have the right to use.
10. UPKEEP - Any project built by the people and of daily use to community life must be kept, cared for and repaired regularly.

This map shows the efforts of the people in perfecting the economic and social conditions they themselves undertook in the 1966 Self-Help Project Programme, such as: [symbols] School - Market; Road - Dike/Dam; Bridge/Culvert - Dispensary, maternity station.
Discuss your problems and take advantage of the useful points of the past year for the self-help project programme in 1967.
Your village or hamlet can hope for the government's help in each project you propose.

Market being built in Huong-Thuy district
1 kilometre of road repaired in Hoa-Vang district
Bridge completed in Huong-Thuy district
Well for refugee compatriots in Phong-Dien district

[Map labels not transcribed]
```

Translation by FRAME from the Vietnamese text on the poster, literal and machine-assisted, not checked by a fluent reader; the claims are the poster's own and FRAME has not checked them against other records. Diacritics are transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at this image resolution. Minor printer's slips ('ccua', 'ao ước' for 'ước ao', and 'tỵ nạn') are reproduced as printed. Map place-name labels are too small to read reliably.

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