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title: Kien Tuong Self-Help Project poster, No. 396 (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kien-tuong-self-help-project-poster-396-vietnamese-1965/
description: A Vietnamese photo sheet headed 'Community development work, Kien-Tuong province'. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
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# Kien Tuong Self-Help Project poster, No. 396 (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)

A Vietnamese photo sheet headed 'Community development work, Kien-Tuong province'. Eleven photographs show secondary-school students sifting sand, mixing cement, moulding and carrying bricks and laying a foundation for a school building, with a text saying the students built two classrooms with materials supplied by the local authorities. The tell is plain-folks: ordinary students at manual work stand for citizens taking part in the government's improvement programme.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
CÔNG CUỘC
PHÁT TRIỂN CỘNG ĐỒNG
TỈNH KIẾN-TƯỜNG

- CÔNG CUỘC CẢI THIỆN CỦA CHÍNH PHỦ VIỆT-NAM CỘNG-HOÀ HIỆN NAY VỀ MỌI MẶT KINH TẾ, XÃ HỘI, VĂN HOÁ, GIÁO DỤC V.V...
- ĐỂ CHO MỌI NGƯỜI DÂN CÓ MỘT Ý THỨC TRÁCH NHIỆM VÀ CÓ BỔN PHẬN THAM GIA VÀO CÔNG CUỘC LỢI ÍCH CHUNG CHO XÃ HỘI. ĐỒNG BÀO ĐÃ THAM GIA VÀO CÁC CÔNG VIỆC ẤY LÀ PHÁT TRIỂN CỘNG ĐỒNG, TRÙNG TU XỬ SỞ Ở KHẮP NƠI.
- TRƯỜNG TRUNG HỌC TỈNH KIẾN-TƯỜNG CŨNG ĐÃ THỰC HIỆN ĐƯỢC VỚI MỤC ĐÍCH ẤY. TÌNH THẦY TRÒ KHÔNG PHÂN BIỆT ĐÃ BẮT TAY VÀO CÔNG CUỘC PHÁT TRIỂN CỘNG ĐỒNG XÂY CẤT TRƯỜNG HỌC TRONG TỈNH, KẺ ĐÀO ĐẤT, NGƯỜI XÚC CÁT, CHUYỂN GẠCH, NHẶT CỎ, TỰ LỰC LÀM LẤY GẠCH ĐỂ XÂY CẤT TRƯỜNG HỌC, VỚI NHỮNG VẬT LIỆU DO CHÍNH QUYỀN ĐỊA PHƯƠNG TRỢ GIÚP.
- CHẲNG BAO LÂU ĐÃ XÂY CẤT XONG NGÔI TRƯỜNG ĐỦ CHO 2 LỚP HỌC RỘNG RÃI VÀ MÁT MẺ.
- ĐÓ CŨNG LÀ MỘT KỲ CÔNG ĐÁNG KỂ, VỪA THÊM ĐƯỢC CHỖ HỌC LẠI TIẾT KIỆM ĐƯỢC MỘT NGÂN KHOẢN LỚN.

Các chị em nữ sinh đang sới cát nhặt cỏ để làm gạch cùng với anh em nam sinh.
Các em này đang tập sự làm thợ hồ theo công thức chỉ dẫn.
Các nam sinh đang trộn cát và ciment để in gạch.
Đoàn nam sinh này có nhiệm vụ cho ciment vào khuôn máy in cho thật nhiều gạch để xây móng.
Đoàn nữ sinh này thay phiên nhau nhào hồ để cho kịp xây.
Chẳng bao lâu, thế là Trường Trung Học Kiến-Tường thêm được hai lớp học rộng rãi và mát mẻ.
Việc xây cất nền móng đang được tiến hành từng ban thi đua nhau.
Các em đang chuyển gạch đến chỗ ban xây nền móng.
```

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

```
THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORK OF KIEN-TUONG PROVINCE

- The present improvement work of the Government of the Republic of Viet-Nam in every field: economic, social, cultural, educational, etc.
- So that every citizen has a sense of responsibility and a duty to take part in work for the common benefit of society. The people who have joined in these tasks are doing community development, repairing public buildings everywhere.
- The Kien-Tuong provincial secondary school has also achieved this aim. Teachers and pupils together set about the community development work of building schools in the province: those who dig earth, those who shovel sand, carry bricks, pick grass, make bricks themselves to build the school, with materials supported by the local authorities.
- Before long a school with two spacious and cool classrooms was finished.
- It is also a notable feat, adding classroom space and saving a large sum of money.

The girl pupils sift sand and pick grass to make bricks together with the boys.
These pupils are practising as bricklayers by the instructed method.
Boy pupils mixing sand and cement to mould bricks.
This group of boys is responsible for putting cement into the moulding machine to make many bricks for the foundation.
This group of girls takes turns kneading mortar to keep up with the building.
Before long Kien-Tuong Secondary School gained two spacious, cool classrooms.
The foundation work is going on, each team competing.
The pupils are carrying bricks to where the foundation team is working.
```

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