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title: New Life Hamlet Projects Under the Self-Help Program
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/new-life-hamlet-projects-self-help-1966/
description: 'A photo sheet (code SP-1153) records dated events in Gia Dinh province in May 1966: the handing out of 1,057 water jars on 12 May.'
section: Collection
---

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# New Life Hamlet Projects Under the Self-Help Program

A photo sheet (code SP-1153) records dated events in Gia Dinh province in May 1966: the handing out of 1,057 water jars on 12 May, a well opened on 10 May and a laterite road opened on 6 May. Photographs show uniformed men shaking hands with villagers beside sandbags and jars, villagers carrying aid parcels, villagers at a well and a village street with cyclists. The sheet attaches a date and a place to every event, and the photographs show the aid and the finished works.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
PHÁT TRIỂN VÀ XÂY DỰNG CÁC ẤP TÂN SINH TẠI GIA ĐỊNH TRONG CHƯƠNG TRÌNH TỰ TÚC

Buổi lễ cấp phát 1057 cái lu cho đồng bào tại các ấp tân sinh xã An Phú Đông và xã Thạnh Mỹ Tây quận Gò Vấp ngày 12 tháng 5 năm 1966

Các đồng bào tỵ nạn cộng sản thường xuyên được lãnh các tặng phẩm

Khánh thành giếng nước tại ấp Tân Sinh Tây Nhì thuộc xã Phú Nhuận ngày 10 tháng 5 năm 1966

Khánh thành con đường đá đỏ ấp Thới Tứ, xã Thới Tam Thôn, quận Hóc Môn ngày 6 tháng 5 năm 1966

SP-1153
```

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

```
DEVELOPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW LIFE HAMLETS IN GIA DINH WITHIN THE SELF-HELP PROGRAMME

Ceremony distributing 1,057 water jars to compatriots in the New Life hamlets of An Phu Dong village and Thanh My Tay village, Go Vap district, 12 May 1966

Compatriots who are refugees from communism regularly receive gifts

Inauguration of the water well at Tan Sinh Tay Nhi hamlet, Phu Nhuan village, 10 May 1966

Inauguration of the red-stone road at Thoi Tu hamlet, Thoi Tam Thon village, Hoc Mon district, 6 May 1966

SP-1153
```

Vietnamese diacritics transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at image resolution. The place names 'Thạnh Mỹ Tây' and 'Thới Tam Thôn' are read from a slightly blurred line; the first word of 'Thạnh' may be misread. A partial sign at the upper left of the top photograph is cut off and not transcribed.

[← A New Life at the Binh Long Chieu Hoi Center](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/new-life-binh-long-chieu-hoi-center-1966/) [New Life Hamlets Inaugurated in Binh Duong →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/new-life-hamlets-binh-duong-1966/)

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