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title: New Hope for Kien Phong (Một hy vọng mới tại Kiến Phong)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/new-hope-for-kien-phong-1965-1969/
description: 'A horizontal photo-sheet (code SP-1484) reports charity and building work in Kien Phong province: a gift distribution on the Vu Lan festival to poor'
section: Collection
---

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[![New Hope for Kien Phong, 1965 US poster: A horizontal photo-sheet (code SP-1484) reports charity and building work in Kien](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/new-hope-for-kien-phong-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/new-hope-for-kien-phong-1965-1969.jpg)

# New Hope for Kien Phong (Một hy vọng mới tại Kiến Phong)

A horizontal photo-sheet (code SP-1484) reports charity and building work in Kien Phong province: a gift distribution on the Vu Lan festival to poor people, Communist-terror victims and soldiers' families, gifts handed out by the wife of the commander of the 9th Division, a school built by villagers, and a school built for the flood season. The text credits domestic and allied charities and a newly founded soldiers' families association. Gift-giving scenes are paired with a hopeful title and a reference to Communist terror, and no costs or recipients' numbers are given.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
MỘT HY VỌNG MỚI TẠI KIẾN PHONG

Mặc dù phương tiện nghèo nàn đồng bào vùng Đơn Phục đã tự tạo một ngôi trường nhỏ bé cho con em họ có nơi học tập.

Lễ phát quà cho đồng bào nghèo, ty. nạn Cộng Sản và gia đình binh sĩ trong ngày lễ Vu Lan.

[banner in photograph:] TOÀ HÀNH CHÁNH; VU LAN NIỀM THƯƠNG CỦA NGƯỜI SỐNG NGUỒN VUI CỦA NGƯỜI CHẾT

NHIỀU ĐỒNG BÀO NGHÈO TẠI KIẾN PHONG ĐÃ ĐƯỢC GIÚP ĐỠ NHỜ NHỮNG DỰ ÁN XÂY DỰNG ĐÃ ĐƯỢC THỰC HIỆN. CHƯƠNG TRÌNH PHÁT TRIỂN VĂN HÓA VÀ CẢI TIẾN XÃ HỘI ĐÃ ĐƯỢC CÁC CƠ QUAN TỪ THIỆN TRONG NƯỚC VÀ CÁC NƯỚC BẠN ĐỒNG MINH TRỢ GIÚP. HỘI BẢO TRỢ GIA ĐÌNH BINH SĨ CŨNG ĐÃ ĐƯỢC THÀNH LẬP ĐỂ GIÚP ĐỠ CÁC GIA ĐÌNH BINH SĨ TRONG LỰC LƯỢNG VIỆT NAM CỘNG HÒA.

Bà Lâm Quang Thi, phu nhân Chuẩn Tướng Tư Lệnh Sư Đoàn 9 kiêm Tư Lệnh Khu 41 Chiến Thuật đang trao tặng phẩm cho đồng bào nghèo.

Đồng bào nghèo với những món quà được trao tặng.

Một trường học vừa hoàn thành tại vùng Các Lái để có chỗ cho con em học tập trong mùa nước lụt.

SP-1484
```

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

```
A NEW HOPE IN KIEN PHONG

Despite their poor means, the people of the Don Phuc area built a small school themselves so their children have somewhere to study.

Ceremony distributing gifts to the poor, Communist refugees and soldiers' families on the Vu Lan festival day.

[banner in photograph:] ADMINISTRATION BUILDING; VU LAN, THE LOVE OF THE LIVING, THE JOY OF THE DEAD

MANY POOR COMPATRIOTS IN KIEN PHONG HAVE BEEN HELPED THANKS TO CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN CARRIED OUT. THE CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMME HAS BEEN ASSISTED BY CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS AT HOME AND IN FRIENDLY ALLIED COUNTRIES. AN ASSOCIATION TO SUPPORT SOLDIERS' FAMILIES HAS ALSO BEEN FOUNDED TO HELP THE FAMILIES OF SOLDIERS IN THE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM FORCES.

Mrs. Lam Quang Thi, wife of the Brigadier General commanding the 9th Division and Tactical Zone 41, presents gifts to the poor.

Poor people with the gifts presented to them.

A school just completed in the Cac Lai area so that children have a place to study in the flood season.

SP-1484
```

[← New Activities in Kien Tuong](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/new-activities-in-kien-tuong-1965-1969/) [New Hope, New Spirit, New Life (Hy vọng mới, tinh thần mới, đời sống mới) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/new-hope-new-spirit-new-life-1965-1969/)

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