Student Youth Camp Programme in Darlac Province
A portrait-format sheet (code SP-1340) shows six black-and-white photographs of Darlac province secondary students at a work camp in Ban Me Thuot: whitewashing and sweeping a school, cooking outdoors, rowing on a lake and laughing in a circle around a teacher. The text says the programme gives young people a chance to build community life, a spirit of social service and to test their abilities. The tell is the cheerful, ordinary-youth imagery, which presents participation as a shared, enjoyable civic activity.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, Saigon, for the South Vietnamese government
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- Home front
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Psychological Warfare Posters, Vietnam War (NAID 561393), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-7-1340.
Text on the object
CHƯƠNG TRÌNH PHÁT TRIỂN SINH HOẠT THANH NIÊN HỌC ĐƯỜNG TỈNH DARLAC THANH NIÊN HỌC ĐƯỜNG TỈNH DARLAC ĐÃ THAM GIA CHƯƠNG TRÌNH NÀY GIÚP CHO HỌ CƠ-HỘI PHÁT TRIỂN ĐỜI SỐNG TẬP THỂ, TINH THẦN PHỤC-VỤ XÃ-HỘI VÀ THỬ THÁCH NĂNG-LỰC CỦA MÌNH. CHƯƠNG TRÌNH GỒM CÓ CÔNG-TÁC SỬA CHỮA, DỌN DẸP SẠCH-SẼ TRƯỜNG TRUNG-HỌC BANMÊTHUỘT VÀ SINH HOẠT TẠI TRẠI. CÁC TRẠI SINH QUÉT VÔI TRƯỜNG TRUNG HỌC BANMÊTHUỘT. CÁC TRẠI SINH NẤU CƠM NGOÀI TRỜI. NHỮNG HỌC SINH KHÁC QUÉT RỬA TRƯỜNG SẠCH-SẼ. GIÁO-SƯ VÀ TRẠI SINH SINH-HOẠT VUI-VẺ SAU NHỮNG GIỜ CÔNG TÁC MỆT NHỌC. CÁC NỮ TRẠI SINH ĐANG BƠI THUYỀN TRÊN HỒ. SP-1340
DARLAC PROVINCE STUDENT YOUTH ACTIVITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM The student youth of Darlac Province took part in this program, which gives them the opportunity to develop collective life, a spirit of social service and to test their own abilities. The program includes repair work and cleaning of the Ban Me Thuot secondary school, and life in the camp. The campers whitewash the Ban Me Thuot secondary school. The campers cook rice outdoors. Other students sweep and wash the school clean. The professor and campers enjoying themselves after hours of tiring work. The girl campers paddling a boat on the lake. SP-1340
Read from the image. 'Giáo-sư' (professor) is the term printed for the teacher; 'quét vôi' is rendered 'whitewash'; 'bơi thuyền' is rendered 'paddling a boat'.
